Editing Hacking (section)

==Empty Nodes==

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|| When you click on an available node (green colour), if it is empty it will turn orange and briefly flash a number. This shows the distance to the nearest useful node (the System Core, a Data Cache or a Utility Subsystem), but '''does not''' give any warning of the proximity of hostile nodes containing Defensive Subsystems.
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Only 1-5 numbers are possible:

* 1 means an adjacent node is a System Core, Utility Subsystem or Data Cache
* 2, 3 and 4 means the nearest System Core, Utility Subsystem or Data Cache is respectively 2, 3 and 4 nodes away
* 5 means you are 5 or more nodes away from the nearest System Core, Utility Subsystem or Data Cache

Use these numbers to guide your movement around the board. For example, if you're approaching an edge or corner of the grid, and the number 5 shows up, then trying to explore anything towards that corner/edge is not useful, because you know that there cannot be anything good within 5 nodes. In general, you want to click in directions that make the numbers smaller. Because the numbers disappear as you move along, you need to remember where there were 5's, so you know which areas not to bother going back to later.