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You have to laugh at the illogic of the game sometimes. I can get oaid to move data in my ship from one station to another, but system data sold to Universal Cartographics not more than an hour or so ago is instantly in my ship.
I guess data that gets couriered is secret/encrypted.
LOL!!!You have to laugh at the illogic of the game sometimes. I can get oaid to move data in my ship from one station to another, but system data sold to Universal Cartographics not more than an hour or so ago is instantly in my ship.
Honestly though: Do you think that may be because it was sold on your carrier?
I did. But I didn't want to play a powerpoint presentation, thus I returned to 3.8...
Indeed. It is very sensitive data, hence why sometimes another party sends some bloodhounds after you to get rid of that data.
I think the encryption via FTL comms isn't strong enough for this kind of data and the risk of corruption through stellar effects too great.
And the massive amount of data that would be travelling through these comms channels would possibly hamper the very important real-time communication between ships and everything else.
And if I had to guess, I would say that UC has some dedicated channels to collect and broadcast the up-to-date stellar maps.
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I think I can use that explanation to make it logical for now
Game wise, no, it shows up right away for everyone. It's one of those gamey type things. I'm sure they had very little motivation to write code to delay the data, all at different times for different CMDRs. It's just a server update, and done.
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If it isn't yet done in RL, it's at least a common theme in close-by SF. Anything you can put on the net, someone else can read - and possibly decrypt. If not now, then maybe with the next generation of hardware or the one after.
So, to keep things really confidential, put them on a physical medium - and only on that single physical medium. Then give that medium to a courier to physically carry it to the receiver.
They've been saying that kind of stuff for years but we are getting ever closer. Your next gen or the one after prediction may still be alittle short but yeah, its coming...
Sneaker-Net wasn't convenient, but it was secure...from a transmission/travel perspective...
I got over the disappointment when I realised what the Codex actually is and adjusted my expectations.When the Codex first came out I thought it would be a good time to maybe get my name in it by being the first person to find something in a Sector. I soon discovered that within days people had zipped all over the galaxy and been the first to discover nearly everything. Since it's only counted if no one else has reported it in an entire Sector, it's nearly impossible. Sectors are huge, and as soon as the first thing is found it's over in that entire Sector.
So I've had to settle for the occasional "Confirmed" entry. And even those don't always work.
The Codex shoulda been so cool, but...meh.
It is actually an EyeSpy book of the Galaxy and I find it quite nice that after all these decades I am finally getting to tick off things in an EyeSpy book that I have actually* seen.
*For a certain value of actually.
The other reason to transfer stuff by physical media rather than over a net is bandwidth/transmission speed which can be a serious issue when dealing with large amounts of data.
The Lord of the Rings raw footage used to be couriered on hard drives between New Zealand and the UK while they were being processed and edited.
More recently the same sort of thing was done with the larger more specialised discs with the raw data captured when they ‘photographed‘ a Black Hole.
Combat aftermath poi? anyone since one before and know what your supposed to do with the blackbox there, i collected and the npc went off in a huff . might try and find another and see if data scanning it first helps
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. might try and find another and see if data scanning it first helps
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In real life, Quantum computers are up and running now, there's one just down the road from me at Moffet Field. They aren't able to outperform classical computers yet, but imagine if you could communicate over vast distances instantaneously with quantumly entangled particles, that would be the ultimate in security.
Not seen one for a while, not been looking for such things, as I recall I was in a largely defenceless ship so merely tried to scan beacons in the wreckage and collect materials I wouldn’t go near a Black Box on the general principle that it would be bait for a TRAP and something nastier than my Orca might pop up and try to do nasty things to me.Combat aftermath poi? anyone since one before and know what your supposed to do with the blackbox there, i collected and the npc went off in a huff
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it ok i was in an anaconda with g3 upgrades, no suprises yet!. and she doing quite well against npc pirates that jujst pop in for a cuppa tea and ended up with 4 pulses lazers and minguns in them
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it also the first thing i do when entering a poi.launch limpets and get ready with the weapons and chaff.
that was the only cargo there.assume the rest was blown up with the ship
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it also the first thing i do when entering a poi.launch limpets and get ready with the weapons and chaff.
that was the only cargo there.assume the rest was blown up with the ship
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If you've remote-jumped your carrier recently, you may have encountered this bug where the distance is being measured from your current location, rather than the carrier's location.
There's an issue up for it, but it needs a couple more confirmations. Please confirm if it's happening to you.
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There's an issue up for it, but it needs a couple more confirmations. Please confirm if it's happening to you.
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I hope you're not like an "Evri" (a delivery "service" in the UK) driver who will just throw the parcel in the general direction of the recipient and say it's job done.
Or just can't be bothered to deliver it at all.
Or lose/steal it.
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The few times I entered one, I got a mission message on my comms, asking me to pick up that black box and deliver it. Can't remember, though, if that ever worked out.Combat aftermath poi? anyone since one before and know what your supposed to do with the blackbox there, i collected and the npc went off in a huff
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