How to protect my stations from hacking?

[Artur]

I started a game in Heretics End sector, and since construction of my first station, someone constantly hacking my production modules and storage modules.
And i have no idea how to deal with this.. Any suggestions?

[Gwizzz]

Who hacks things? Hmmm, any pirate ships in the area? They may be running in disguise and causing your stations to eject wares.

In lieu of scanning every disguised pirate ship, maybe you could set up a patrol, buy a police license for the faction sector you are in, outfit your ships with police scanners, and they can reveal and attack the pirates before they can hack your stations?

I'm not sure this is even possible, but it should be.

EDIT.. isn't Heretics End a pirate sector???

[Artur]

No, no pirate ships. Sector is unclaimed.
There is only my stations, HAT free port and 2 SCA Factories.
I captured all their ships.
And they hacking all my stations simultaneously every few minutes.
Im loosing all my money and literally can't produce anything

[Wraith]

SCA are pirates
Hat are mercenary and you can leave them alone.

Have police patrol to scan for ships that could be SCA in disguise

[Artur]

So, I guess the problem was that sector were unclaimed. As soon as I build defense platform my stations started to produce "station police". And so far, no hacking....

[hurepoix]

Just for curiosity ; are you playing vanilla, or a modded game ?
Your post surprised. I have lot of hours on X4, but I was never hacked. The closest situation of yours was on VRO where green scale plate pirates hacked my storage then send cargo drone to plunder raw floating in the space around.

That s the reason why I ask about mods.

[Gwizzz]

Originally posted by Artur:

So, I guess the problem was that sector were unclaimed. As soon as I build defense platform my stations started to produce "station police". And so far, no hacking....

Thanks for sharing the solution to the problem, and Wraith mentioning the police force. I didn't know you needed a defense station present to trigger police patrols but it makes sense.

And now you plopped down the defense station is the sector yours? Or do you need to add an admin module to claim it?

[Artur]

Originally posted by hurepoix:

Just for curiosity ; are you playing vanilla, or a modded game ?
Your post surprised. I have lot of hours on X4, but I was never hacked. The closest situation of yours was on VRO where green scale plate pirates hacked my storage then send cargo drone to plunder raw floating in the space around.

That s the reason why I ask about mods.

I'm using "better piracy" mod. Not sure if it's because of this, or it's vanilla, but I didn't find anything about hacking in description of this mod, so I assume it's game's feature.

Also, when I'm taking"hacking missions" clients always mentioning local police as a problem. So, since I didn't have them, because sector is "free", it does make sense that AI have no problems with hacking me.
I also noticed that SCA have police on their stations even in free sectors.

[Artur]

Originally posted by Gwizzz:

Originally posted by Artur:

So, I guess the problem was that sector were unclaimed. As soon as I build defense platform my stations started to produce "station police". And so far, no hacking....

Thanks for sharing the solution to the problem, and Wraith mentioning the police force. I didn't know you needed a defense station present to trigger police patrols but it makes sense.

And now you plopped down the defense station is the sector yours? Or do you need to add an admin module to claim it?

Yes, you need admin module to claim free sector.
Basically, you don't need anything else, just AM. And since you build it, sector is yours if there is no defense platforms from other factions.

Also, if you want to concur the sector, you only need to destroy all administrative modules belongin to owner of that sector. No need to kill all defense modules, just AM

[Lord Dickinson McCheddar]

SCA hacked my station. I hacked their face. S now stands for scarface. I would give them a tissue to wipe the tears from their face but it is already tissue, scar tissue. There is no more SCA faction. I wiped them out. This is how I know there will be no more station hacking.

[K]

Originally posted by SpooDinner:

SCA hacked my station. I hacked their face. S now stands for scarface. I would give them a tissue to wipe the tears from their face but it is already tissue, scar tissue. There is no more SCA faction. I wiped them out. This is how I know there will be no more station hacking.

This is the only acceptable solution.

[Gwizzz]

Originally posted by SpooDinner:

SCA hacked my station. I hacked their face. S now stands for scarface. I would give them a tissue to wipe the tears from their face but it is already tissue, scar tissue. There is no more SCA faction. I wiped them out. This is how I know there will be no more station hacking.

If you have a shipyard or lots of credits pouring in then wiping them out is a good idea. I have neither yet, so I still cap SCA ships when I see them running around

Ps..I set one of my scouts to follow a SCA Behemoth destroyer until I could get my Nemesis and marine transports to that sector to board and cap it. While I was watching my ship follow the pirate ship, it pulled up next to a station, wares were ejected from the station, and cargo drones were sent out to collect the wares.

"Give me ye wares or I'll blast ye to pieces... Arrr!"

Extortion at work in X4.