"Hacks are becoming a big problem in Elite"

[D K]

There's a news article talking about hacking in elite becoming a huge problem now... Ummm.. it's always been a huge problem. Since day one it's been a problem.

Now that numbers are dwindling, you aren't releasing any meaningful content, and you've made open play more pointless than ever... you blame hackers on the game's downfall.

Hackers simply point out a BLAZING problem with your game, you built a fake MMO. Everything is done by our PCs, and the server really doesn't matter. It's only retrieving data from the server to fill in blanks like market info, missions, and other misc information.

Hackers will always be around even with anti cheat, because at it's core, Elite is a sad shadow of what it was supposed to be.. a space MMO.

[Agony_Aunt]

Noosebrother님이 먼저 게시:

never seen a cheater. just overgeared bored people hunting noobies.

Apparently they are around. Some reports though are probably false. People cry cheat when they are killed because they don't understand how the other person killed them so quickly.

[Wesker]

Agony_Aunt님이 먼저 게시:

Noosebrother님이 먼저 게시:

never seen a cheater. just overgeared bored people hunting noobies.

Apparently they are around. Some reports though are probably false. People cry cheat when they are killed because they don't understand how the other person killed them so quickly.

Sadly its easier for people to blam a cheater rather then lack of skill or proper gear, I myself have been accused twice,

Had a dangerous viper cmdr interdict me when I was hauling stuff to repair the damaged stations, I dont do pvp and im not really a combat pilot, i can defend myself yeah but when trading I usually just go for defense and ignore whomever is attacking me, I'm flying a max engineered bi weave conda so no problem there,
He accused me of having infinite shield cells.........no just heavily modified bi weaves, my shields were recharging faster then he was doing damage so obviously I'm cheating,

But my personal favorite was being accused of combat logging when someone tried interdicting me, i was 3/4 charged for a hyperspace jump when they tried interdicting me, but i was able to stay aligned and make the jump, then I got 20 min of hate mail in chat till I blocked the guy.

[Guizin]

JetLaGGed님이 먼저 게시:

Wesker님이 먼저 게시:

The game/galaxy is way to big for a proper MMO interaction, I can go weeks without seeing another soul in game unless you go to a CG or other popular systems,

Which brings me to the next thing, if the cheating is so bad how come in my over 2000 hours have I never seen one, I have ran into some attempted gankers around CGs before but like most things Elite you can just avoid them in solo or private, the same should work for hackers,

hacks are not just limited to being able to oneshot ships with normally weak weapons. There exist hacks that allow players to travel from Sol to Beagle in one jump, to drop from supercruise to a station at any distance in the system, accelerate system loading (make the hyperspace loading screen go away faster) etc. Such hacks are incredibly detrimental to the Background Simulation (BGS) and allow players using them to do things like cause stations to go into lockdown far easier, and when stations are in lockdown nobody in any mode can use most services normally offered. Hacking the game allows the people that use them to relatively easily affect all modes which is why you should care.

accelerate system loading? how is this not a good thing and why is it bad for BGS?

[JetLaGGed]

Guizin님이 먼저 게시:

accelerate system loading? how is this not a good thing and why is it bad for BGS?

honestly if the loading screens were not forced to be a minimum length that would be good, but they are and the hack removing it grants a logistical advantage to the user, especially in combat scenarios where a legit player highwakes, the hacking player can scan the wake (from any range and instantaneously because he can change that) then end up in the system before the legit player, which lets the hacker set up an interdiction before the victim even shows up in the system. As far as BGS goes it simply makes BGS actions far more efficient than a legitimate player, though imo its a little superfluous when you have unlimited jump range anyways so its a maximum of 30s per jump savings but it exists.

[Boomer]

Been lucky i guess. Played since release, only in open, not run into one yet

[ZombieHunter]

I haven't seen any recent cheating but I think bots are a bigger problem. They will trash the economy, put everything into boom and destroy powerplay.

Also for those saying glad you are offline you are mistaken. Bots, hacks and cheats will also affect your game. Your gameworld state is the same as the online gameworld state.

[papsmirnoff]

People that use hacks need some smacks.