So you log in your favorite starport and find the BGS made the faction you got your palladium missions from has been ousted. Or your IF vanished. Not affected? Granted, those are niche cases and don't affect you much, but my point stands they affect you. You may not care, which depends on your playstyle, but the whole game is built on the premise that everything is affected more or less by the BGS.
Notice A statement on cheating in Elite Dangerous.
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Good man, even if the quote is a little vulgar
We would have had one hell of a purge after the g5 incident, we certainly should have done.The Replicated Man
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It would depend if you had a static or dynamic ip. Thats where the hardware would come in.
Good man, even if the quote is a little vulgar
Pfft, you ain't seen vulgar.
Regarding the 5/1 engineer exploit why do people keep bringing that up? They were punished, yes? Ill gotten gains were taken away, yes?
Get over it and move on.
What changed was them not doing anything for 6 months. This is the SOP for reporting vulnerabilities in the tech industry, btw. You inform, give a window to correct, and then go public if they don't. It is not my responsibility to ensure the integrity of FDev's game, it's theirs. PvPers have been facing rampant hacking for nearly a year now which is why we decided to try and do something about it. What do you do when you bring something to the dev's attention and they do nothing about it? You make others aware.
If more people are cheating because of the awareness, I say good. FDev should do something to fix the problem and their community that encourages cheating more than any other game community that I've interacted with. For years, on this very forum, people openly encouraged combat logging (and still do) as a way to avoid legitimate gameplay and FDev did absolutely nothing to help the problem. Mods on this forum openly sympathized with combat loggers and some even combat logged themselves. This behavior absolutely ruined PvP piracy.
Keep in mind though that the specific hack we did our post was locked down a day after our post went up, so the cheats that are being used aren't the ones we posted about.
This. Absolutely this. Can't wrap my head around all the strawmen being tossed around here to dodge this simple truth.
Bots are capable of that through OCR. I saw a bot that would auto-jump for you to any destination (and scoop fuel). Guy went to Colonia with it while he was sleeping. Can't imagine it would be much more difficult to do the same for that.
Remember, though, that many of these cheats have "instant drop at destination" as a feature, so all you'd have to do is select your end point, jump to SC, then use the hack function to drop you right in front of the slot. EZPZ
But, but... you cheated, you are stained forever!
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Sure it's quite easy to spoof or mask a IP using a VPN. However my suggestions were not directed at you. I have no clue why you are continuing to attempt to refute my statements.
I wonder if the bot honked for them too. All that ill gotten data. But hey, let's downplay it some more. No big deal.
Right? Someone pays their debt you leave them be. Few things more disgusting than folks that won't.
It did. No neutrons, so imagine all those first discoveries stolen from non-cheating players.
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To be honest, you're just going to go off on another strawman if I do, and it wasn't addressed to you in the first instance (it was aimed at Troopi to shine a little colourfully written light on their query), so I won't bother.
I don't think I know one player group that would stand the gutting a 'perma-ban for any form of exploit' would cause for them amongst their membership (particularly among the big kids). I mean I even had a G5 Lightweight Chaff launcher I accidentally got from 5/1 and didn't know a thing about it until I had it taken away
I don't think I know one player group that would stand the gutting a 'perma-ban for any form of exploit' would cause for them amongst their membership (particularly among the big kids). I mean I even had a G5 Lightweight Chaff launcher I accidentally got from 5/1 and didn't know a thing about it until I had it taken away
For exploits it would be over the top. On that note before the PvP haters roll in let's all keep in mind the OP doesn't mention exploits at all. Installing software to hack the game is way worse than manipulating poor code for an unintended result. Fixing the code and then removing the ill-gotten gains is as fair as this kind of thing can get.
EDIT: Clarity.
Turretboats sure, and you could do that without cheats (cheers engineers!). The question was about bots and their functionality.
Fair enough.
Hmm... ok, so the bots and cheat can work hand in hand, makes sense. But is it clever enough to detect when a CZ is finished? As i understand the effect on the BGS now is greater if you complete the CZ and not just gather bonds.
Do you have any knowledge of this?
As far as I am aware none exist, because in part there is no need due to the AFK boats. As far as cheating in a new CZ, if you have one shot kills mods, you could mercilessly spank any while hoovering up credits from massacre missions. Remember war bonds don't have a pronounced effect on the outcome, so if you can rack up wins alone you have won (so trips back and forward are not required).
I have a very thick skin thanks. Perhaps he can write a post that does not degenirate people who choose to play in a different mode?
You laughed at PvPers being chased away by a hacker. I suggest dropping the issue.
Not 100% sure, but I can imagine there is something written in a journal file indicating this that can be read. Could use OCR for it too, if there's no journal file.
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