Help me understand Hacking Response?

[Spaz]

Probably gunna have a lot of questions for this post, but mostly what i want to know is the "expected hacking response leve." Mainly, is it possible to reduce the expected hacking response? I ask this because ofcourse, there are so many things i can hack, but i REALLY dont want to try and face an extreme forest fire response.. i can get the hacking progress needed for the hack back, but the response level just keeps going up with each hack.

Now i understand how and why the response level goes up (i think), but is there anything i can do to lower it? I am almost certain i saw it go down once in a game where i didn't do much hacking but i have no clue what it is.

[alocritani]

quoting wiki:

The hacking response is:

    If Hacking Progress is >= 0, then just uses Effective AIP (so AIP after reductions).
    If Hacking Progress is negative, then it uses either Effective AIP or -HackingProgress (whichever is greater) AND multiplies the result by 1+(HackingProgress/-10).
        So if AIP is 10 normally the response would be scaled by just 10. But if Hacking Progress were -50 the response would be scaled by _300_.

but from another topic:

The response is currently based on (AIP - HaP), as far as I recall.  0 HaP remains the breakpoint where it begins to increase exponentially.

[Spaz]

Okay so, if I understand this correctly.. The only way to reduce hacking response level is by lowering your ai progress?

[alocritani]

I found that my second quote is coming from 7.006 release notes

Because (7.006 release notes)  response = AIP_effective - HaP
and HaP = AIP_total - HaP_used
and AIP_effective = AIP_total - AIP_reduction

we can now write the formula as

response = AIP_effective - HaP = AIP_effective - (AIP_total - HaP_used) =
AIP_effective -  AIP_total + HaP_used =
AIP_total - AIP_reduction -  AIP_total + HaP_used =
AIP_total - AIP_reduction -  AIP_total + HaP_used = HaP_used -  AIP_reduction

so in order to have a lower response you need to use less HaP (so hacking less) or, if you already hacked,  reduce AIP