Message no. 1

From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Self-Upgrading Fake IDs
Date:	Wed, 12 Jul 1995 12:28:16 +0200

>How about something like a threshold for the number of tests to complete?
>You start out with a level three progressive. To make it to level 4, the
>ID must be taken as genuine (i.e. passed the opposed tests it makes) 4
>times. To go from 4 to 5 takes 5 succesful checks, etc.

Sounds good.

>To make it a
>little more difficult, there also must be a minimum difficulty to the
>check, no more than say a 2 level difference. That means that if you want
>to raise a level 5 to a level 6 you have to beat 6 level 4 or greater ID
>checkers (no going to local Stuffer Shack to build an easy ID:).

What you mean is that you have to beat a scanner of a maximum of 2 points
less than the new rating of your ID for it to count?
Maybe the following also works: defeat a ratings total of the square of the
new level of your ID for it to go up by 1. So to go from 3 to 4 requires you
to pass a total of 16 rating points worth of scanners. And whether you get
through 4 rating 4 scanners or through 16 rating 1 models doesn't matter...

>doing most of this off of the top of my head, but it is coming out
>sounding fairly reasonable.

It works for me :)


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