Hacking a company only for them to track you down and hire you for a special job is cyberpunk as hell.
But I believe it has happened in the past.
Hacking a company only for them to track you down and hire you for a special job is cyberpunk as hell.
In the past? 25% of American hackers have a freelance gig...But I believe it has happened in the past.
Because they either don't see it as an important issue for whatever reason (I play in solo, I play on a console, I don't do PvP, it's not (yet) widespread etc.) or the see it as an important issue, but believe that FD is doing enough about it.I don't understand why some people here try to downplay the issue of cheating. This is an MMO, and a lot of it is of a very competitive nature. FD should invest a lot of their focus to fairness and equal terms. I'm all for perma ban for all cheaters.
Who downplays the issue of cheating? What some people are doing is downplaying the "FDEV will never and can never do anything about it because they hate us" thing.I don't understand why some people here try to downplay the issue of cheating. This is an MMO, and a lot of it is of a very competitive nature. FD should invest a lot of their focus to fairness and equal terms. I'm all for perma ban for all cheaters.
I don't know how much they are doing, therefore I don't know if they are doing enough either. What I do now is that they fought against cheats and hacks in the past, contrary to many claims in this thread.Because they either don't see it as an important issue for whatever reason (I play in solo, I play on a console, I don't do PvP, it's not (yet) widespread etc.) or the see it as an important issue, but believe that FD is doing enough about it.
When they'll steal your car in Berlin and it'll never be found, I'll tell you that the police is obviously doing something because every 9th is found again...I don't know how much they are doing, therefore I don't know if they are doing enough either. What I do now is that they fought against cheats and hacks in the past, contrary to many claims in this thread.
Been there, done that - And the variety isn't really big. Sure, you list the variety of how to make money. I hauled plenty of passengers, including to SagA*. And the trip there was me watching movies while I jump/honk/scoop.The game changes so much that it's almost more like parallel universes than a living galaxy. One day you can collect materials from Belugas pretty easily. The next the Belugas have prox mines and jump away as soon as you open fire. One day you can haul passenger for 40m a trip. The next you cannot get 2 mil. One day your A rated ship that you spent a year trying to achieve is made obsolete by the next level of grind power creep, which is made almost obsolete by yet another. One day you find a great slave trade route. The next day the magical hand of god kills that for you.
The game changes exponentially more due to hand of god things than BGS things. I can cross the galaxy and nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing that you have ever done will be apparent to me. The only things that are apparent are things the hand of god has done. You cannot so much as leave a footprint on a planet surface, for as soon as you leave that instance you didn't exist.
Everything you do in solo would also impact the other instances, just as is now.You sound like you're obsessed with "physical" impact.
And how would the consequences be between sessions? Someone blew up a planet in Open, would I not be able to find that planet in Solo? Me and my 10 friends in a private session pushed Abraham Lincoln Station in Sol further beyond Pluto, would that trolling be noticed by anyone in Open?
All your examples would mess up the game to some extent. Any examples on positive impact?
Correct. You can do everything in the Sidey. You can get to triple Elite in a Sidey. Will take a while, but you'll get there.I'll follow your line of logic: any ship after the Sidewinder is optional. Playing this game is optional.
Flawed analogy.When they'll steal your car in Berlin and it'll never be found, I'll tell you that the police is obviously doing something because every 9th is found again...
And that's a consolation prize to all the other 8 who will never see their car again?When they'll steal your car in Berlin and it'll never be found, I'll tell you that the police is obviously doing something because every 9th is found again...
It always has affected everyone in the same way it does now, just as spamming the exploited god rolls affected everyone. There are always parallel, unintended game things happening and it affects everyone. The sudden escalation of concern though seems odd.It affects everyone in this game. But select groups try to shut their eyes to this out of convenience and to nurse a grudge.
I understand your point(s). But the problem is cheating, not the difference of opinion as to the effects of it.Cheating is a cancer because it erodes trust, that's the biggest problem. It is not a big problem if a cheater kills me from time to time (until it becomes really rampant), but it's a big problem if I yell: "CHEATER" every time someone kills me.
When a company doesn't do enough to protect both its business and me as a player, then the trust is lost as well and I start getting a feeling that I am not being treated as a respected customer, but as someone who's only good enough to be milked for money.
When a company doesn't stop cheats after 6 months and when it doesn't say anything even when it (shadow) bans cheater, then people start thinking that cheating in their games is not a problem and they'll start doing it more and more.
Since both us players and FD are on the same side because we all love this game (both for us and for DB this game is the game of the lifetime), it would be awesome if:
Cheating has become a big problem in the gaming industry, and many other companies are using everything available to them to the maximum possible extent in order to give their players safe games, free of cheaters. Even legislators are slowly starting to recognise how big the problem is. In South Korea creating cheats and hacks for games is a criminal offence.
- FD would start better protecting their business by being more diligent in implementing anti-cheat measures.
- FD would have a permanent communication and active communication with players that discover bugs. Many of us are developers and I'm sure it would be both fun for us to discover security holes and profitable for FD's business to increase security of their product.
- FD would show us that they are doing their best to protect both their business and us as players by either periodically stating (no, 6 months isn't good enough) how many players have they banned and in which way, or by showing everyone in real time in their clients who has been banned and why.
Everything you do in solo would also impact the other instances, just as is now.
The only reason I picked "physical" impact is because it would have a visual effect. Nothing else really does. Leave a system in famine for 3 months, you'd expect population to decline. Does that have a visual effect? Any effect on the BGS? The answer is a big fat NOPE!
Let a system starve for a year, don't supply ANY food at all. The system will remain exactly the same as it is now.
Even prices for food won't go through the roof, as there is a limit to that. Besides, if you'd deliver 700t of food to a starving system, you should be the one dictating the prices, not them. Don't want to pay 1m for a ton of food? No worries, feel free to starve. And they'd gladly starve to... oh wait, no they won't because 6bn people will remain 6bn, even after 3 months of famine.
No it isn't.Flawed analogy.
I know you are, and I think that HackerOne is a very good example of employing white hat hackers. Many companies do it, they even leave notes hidden with instructions how to contact the company.I'm a member of HackerOne, and we protect more than just your bank account.
Well it's not me that claims that both FD and Berlin police do their job.And that's a consolation prize to all the other 8 who will never see their car again?
It would be more impressive if it'd be the other way around: 8 out of 9 cars are found again. Then I feel sorry for the 1 guy who loses his car this way.