Doubt itself is the most invidious result of cheats/hacks and I suspect many cheats may enjoy that aspect as much as the ‘carnage’ they create.
I would have no idea if someone were cheating within this game unless they determined to make it absolutely plain. Thankfully Elite Dangerous has yet, at least from my experience, to become as ridden and ridiculous as some of the old Call Of Duty servers where the cheats couldn’t care less and were blatant and open with their aimbots and wall hacks. I remember going into one server and immediately zooming into the sky above the map with players super jumping all around me. When they had dedicated servers you could often find a ‘crouch only’ server that insisted on players taking a more tactical (albeit rather silly looking) approach, this showed two obvious things 1. Most cheats couldn’t ‘cheat within the rules,’ and remain undetected (the 10-15% edge mentioned in previous posts) 2. Anyone remotely good at the game or any technical flaw (ping rate, lag) was immediately a hacker or the result of a hack from the ‘victims’ viewpoint.
Most of those ‘good’ players seemed to (reluctantly) accept those cheats that weren’t good enough to play without their hacks but tried to remain undetected, accepted that some were idiots and would soon move on (the auto everything on types) just as they equally accepted the accusations of cheating levelled at them due to skill, practice and ping rates.
So doubt is the invidious and inescapable creation of hacking, but perhaps acceptance is the twin of doubt too, as much an inescapable creation? Most likely, unless FDev can be seen to wield a mighty Ban Hammer. Perhaps ‘seeing’ that hammer fall could be in-game with Galnet naming the ‘fallen’ every week. A role playing way to show the community that action is not only being taken but being effective.*
*Someone posted a video a week or so back of some online FPS when a ban hammer listing ran through for nearly fifteen minutes, those genuine players reactions on the video were both priceless but also quite telling in the positivity such a ban wave gives honest players.
Apologies, bit of a ramble.
I would have no idea if someone were cheating within this game unless they determined to make it absolutely plain. Thankfully Elite Dangerous has yet, at least from my experience, to become as ridden and ridiculous as some of the old Call Of Duty servers where the cheats couldn’t care less and were blatant and open with their aimbots and wall hacks. I remember going into one server and immediately zooming into the sky above the map with players super jumping all around me. When they had dedicated servers you could often find a ‘crouch only’ server that insisted on players taking a more tactical (albeit rather silly looking) approach, this showed two obvious things 1. Most cheats couldn’t ‘cheat within the rules,’ and remain undetected (the 10-15% edge mentioned in previous posts) 2. Anyone remotely good at the game or any technical flaw (ping rate, lag) was immediately a hacker or the result of a hack from the ‘victims’ viewpoint.
Most of those ‘good’ players seemed to (reluctantly) accept those cheats that weren’t good enough to play without their hacks but tried to remain undetected, accepted that some were idiots and would soon move on (the auto everything on types) just as they equally accepted the accusations of cheating levelled at them due to skill, practice and ping rates.
So doubt is the invidious and inescapable creation of hacking, but perhaps acceptance is the twin of doubt too, as much an inescapable creation? Most likely, unless FDev can be seen to wield a mighty Ban Hammer. Perhaps ‘seeing’ that hammer fall could be in-game with Galnet naming the ‘fallen’ every week. A role playing way to show the community that action is not only being taken but being effective.*
*Someone posted a video a week or so back of some online FPS when a ban hammer listing ran through for nearly fifteen minutes, those genuine players reactions on the video were both priceless but also quite telling in the positivity such a ban wave gives honest players.
Apologies, bit of a ramble.
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