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Which Gateway(s) should I choose?
1 of 8: This depends on the missions you want to do.
2 of 8: You can either choose all-rounders or focus in Security, Memory or CPU. Here are a few suggestions to good routes:
3 of 8: General: Alpha 1 -- VIRTUANET -- ZION -- TRINITY. The General gateways are good for every mission types, not specializing in anything.
4 of 8: Security: Alpha 1 -- VIRTUANET -- ZION -- UNITY. The Security path is good for those who expect to get caught and want good motion detection (3 motion detectors and 1 Nuke -- simply keep a motion detector application active and Nuke if it gets red when you've no updates coming). If you really want to pay for security, replace the VIRTUANET with the KRONOS type. You can also bypass ZION if you wish. (Remember that just one type of security is useless -- you'll need both motion sensor _and_ nuke).
5 of 8: Memory: Alpha 1 -- IMEMORY -- KRONOS (- ZION) -- AM-CORE. The Memory path works if you want to be a file gopher. Note that in this version the file retrieval missions are buggy so you might want to consider the General path -- it's not THAT much worse.
6 of 8: CPU: Alpha 1 -- ICPU -- VIRTUANET -- ZION -- OMEGA. Good if you want to decypher and crack passwords faster than you can see them :)
7 of 8: In the early stages of the game you have the choice of expanding either your processor or memory. My recommendation is you take neither and go straight to the VIRTUANET R-Access Gateway (2 processors, 48Gq memory, no security and 2Gqs bandwidth). This way you get more CPU speed, memory AND bandwidth, for a good price. The KRONOS 80-620 is OK, too, but the cost is too high for early game. (And you need that extra CPU speed -- _fast_.)
8 of 8: In the midgame and endgame you should have a pretty good picture about what you want to do, so I won't bother you with those ;)
