History YMMV / Uplink

* ThatOneLevel: For some people, hacking into a LAN. Unlike the rest of the game, navigating a LAN means playing cat and mouse with the server administrator and navigating all the hardware - using subnet masks, lockbreakers, and all that jazz. Now enjoy doing it three or four times ''to the same LAN'' in order to retrieve several hundred Gq of data, then delete the local copies and upload that data to a server for another corporation to use! Mmmm, corporate espionage!
* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: It's possible to render some of the data retrieval missions unwinnable by purposefully vandalizing and wiping everything on the servers you hack.

** The chronic insecurity of the Website/InterNIC server makes life a little too easy.

* UnwinnableByInsanity: It's possible to render some of the data retrieval missions unwinnable by purposefully vandalizing and wiping everything on the servers you hack.

** Bah, that's basic. [[spoiler:Do a Trace balance transfer mission involving a large cash amount. Note your bank ID & IP, get back to the account of the TBT mission, transfer all of them to your account, delete transfer log, disconnect, then delete transfer log at your account, then clean all bouncing logs. Voila, you now have money to buy everything you need (if the money is more than 200000). Of course, given the short timeframe for deleting all the logs makes it really easy to get caught, makes this a DeathOrGloryAttack. But, hey, high risk, high reward.]].

* FunnyMoments: The fact that you can get people arrested for literally ''anything'' as long as you follow up the charges with a parole violation. This extends to completely nonsensical charges like "meme smuggling" or "[[FelonyMisdemeanor being a jerk]]".

* GameBreaker: The chronic insecurity of the Website/InterNIC server makes life a little too easy.

* Unwinnable by Insanity: It's possible to render some of the data retrieval missions unwinnable by purposefully vandalizing and wiping everything on the servers you hack.

Unwinnable by Insanity: It's possible to render some of the data retrieval missions unwinnable by purposefully vandalizing and wiping everything on the servers you hack.

* ThatOneLevel: For some people, hacking into a LAN. Unlike the rest of the game, navigating a LAN means playing cat and mouse with the server administrator and navigating all the hardware - using subnet masks, lockbreakers, and all that jazz. Now enjoy doing it three or four times ''to the same LAN'' in order to retrieve several hundred Gq of data, then delete the local copies and upload that data to a server for another corporation to use! Mmmm, corporate espionage!

* GameBreaker: The chronic insecurity of the InterNIC server makes life a little too easy.
** Calling the InterNIC server's insecurity 'chronic' is like calling water ''wet'', to emphasize. However, there's still the Uplink Test Server that you can break into to cover your tracks.

*** That example actually demonstrates the problem even better: [[spoiler:You don't have to delete all of the transfer logs--just the one that directly connects to your gateway. So if InterNIC's your first connection point for both bank hacks, all you have to do is clean the bank logs, DC, then go to InterNIC and delete your outgoing logs and the logs that say you logged in as an admin and edited logs. Then sit back for like five minutes and wait for your rating upgrade to come.]]

** Calling the InterNIC server's insecurity 'chronic' is like calling water ''wet'', to emphasise. However, there's still the Uplink Test Server that you can break into to cover your tracks.