NPC Paydata
Make decking profitable...

Hedging on the most recent conversations regarding decking, one of the complaints raised about decking is that the skill doesn't have much in the way of earning money. There could be a way to use decking to crack and steal paydata from NPCs and collect this in the form of an e-mem chip. And then other NPCs could be looking for these chips, willing to buy them. You could have this work functionally in a similar way to how selling other items to NPCs works, and it could exist both in Red, and topside for those corpies who need a side hustle.

This is an interesting idea, but unless it's outside of the weekly earnings cap, it wouldn't be that helpful imo and it would discourage going out to do weeklies. Maybe if you could do it once a week regardless of the cap?

(And you can edit posts to add on to them, you don't have to do a self-reply.)

(Edited by zxq at 4:20 pm on 7/17/2026)

neat thought but that would be less "adding an element of risk" and more "guaranteeing you get called up to the hall within the next 30 minutes"