That's all easier said than done in Elite case. Most of the stuff is done on the client side.
It's already too late.
Notice A statement on cheating in Elite Dangerous.
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That's all easier said than done in Elite case. Most of the stuff is done on the client side.
It's already too late.
Cat and mouse. They put in anti-cheat code, the hackers find a way around it. And so the cycle continues.
Also detection code, FD find ways to detect it, hackers find a way to avoid detection.
Lols, mate stop..
He was using it for months.. What does that tell you?
It tells me there are players using these hacks or whatever and Fdev have no clue who, how, or when.
And right now, some player using them still.
When you next login and play, there is a player hacking.
And FDev can't track it, and FDev don;t actively terminate accounts until something is reported. That's fact!
It tells me FD don't have a fix yet or the hackers are making fixes as fast as FD are.
Exactly, Money talks here... I trade stocks for a living, and it's pretty easy to see that the Majority Shareholders won't let them deal with cheating, Like say Destiny 2 or another game for that matterNo. I am not going to say "thank you FD", because you don't deserve it IMO.
Deal with the cheaters first. Then we can talk. This statement is just corporate rubbish to try and appease the shareholders who are now worried about profits.
Well, Not really "fact"... I've reported countless cheaters (Loggers with proof) and nothings been done... Needs to be a "Staged Protest" of some sorts in order for them to act, A simple report won't, and have not worked in the past
The official answer to this from 2015 or so was: there are already tools that do this, no need to implement that feature.
In other words they are too lazy and didn't want to invest that one week to add this much requested feature.
Meanwhile, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw will allow you to fully customize one ship's textures...
A small game development team can do wonders, when they stick to single player. XD
I think ED would much more feature-complete and less buggy today had it been released as a single-player game. Oh well...
The fact that you see evidence of cheating doesn’t mean that the anti cheating code isn’t very effective for all anyone other than the cheaters and FDev know it could be stopping 99.99% of attempts, but for various reasons neither side is likely to publish the figures.
Plus FDev have the disadvantage that whatever fix they write has to not interfere with the game, the hackers don’t have to bother about such niceties.
Sorry CMDR, a player managed to block the grill in Jameson for 90 minutes, was immune to all station fire and then managed to insta jump out of system.
If you're trying to tell me that, that kind of activity is only representative of .1% of hacks you are either trolling me, white knighting or completely lacking any cognisant education of hacking.
I am trying to tell you that the only people who could know the figures are FDev and the hackers. No more intent to troll on my part than there was in your post that I was responding to.
I will admit proudly to not having had any education in hacking, my programming skills, such as they where, are limited to a couple of ancient versions of Basic and Fortran IV, nowadays I doubt if I could write an Excel macro if I could find a version of Excel old enough that I recognised.
And then people would just look at those connections and allow those through the firewall.
Even if FDEV logged failures to instance, it is literally impossible to know the cause - it could be either player blocking it.
The only solution is a complete rewrite of the networking stack of the game to shift to a client-server rather than peer-to-peer architecture.
Honesty protests will do nothing, they couldnt care less, they never did anything about logging and they never will aswell as the hacking.
And that will never happen as that would drive the costs for hosting the game up to levels FD will never want to pay for. The only way for them to continue supporting the game in that connectivity model would be via a subscription service, which would chase away a lot of players.
I think all the cheat problem would solve with dedicated servers for instances in place of the current p2p
Well, if we are going to get all grammatical about it, then yes. Technically speaking they could reveal everything they know and publish their anti-cheat code to allow the community to critique it.
Semantics aside, you know what i meant i think.
Nobody is asking for the anti-cheat code, publishing statistics isn't comparable and it's done by many other bussinesses.
...prolly only what he wants to know. Problem with flat earthers is that there is always a way around the hardest evidence. Best to treat them like mushrooms, feed them poo and keep em in the dark
Flat earthers are specialists in the use of ad-hominem fallacies and I see you too know how to use it...
But people are splitting hairs between can and willing. They can do a lot of things, regardless of whether other companies do it... doesn't mean it makes sense.
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