Cyber Attack

All viruses have a 60 second window in which they will attempt to infect a target ship. By default, a virus will attempt an infection once every 3 seconds for a total of 20 attempts. The time per attempt and the number of attempts can be modified by increasing the cyber attack rating of a ship. This rating can be seen on the scientist's virus panel in the top right hand corner. A rating of 100% represents the default values mentioned above.

The cyber attack rating of a ship can be increased by equipping one or more ARX-CWR processors. Doing so will alter the time per attempt and the total number of attempts by the following formulas:

$$\frac{\text{time}}{\text{attack}}=\frac{300}{\text{Cyber Attack}}$$ (returns a value in seconds)

$$\text{Number of attempts}=\frac{\text{Cyber Attack}}{5}$$

For example, if your ship has a cyber attack rating of 150%, each virus attempt would take 2 seconds and would complete 30 attempts in its 60 second infection window.

The cyber attack rating does NOT increase the chance that a single attempt will infect an enemy ship, given that it does increase the total number of attempts. However, it does increase the overall chance that a virus will infect the other ship. For information regarding infection chances, see the page on Cyber Defense.