If they (the Cheater) have found a hole in the blocking mechanism, then that might be possible. It might take FD time to track down the root cause and deploy a fix for it though.
I mean, if they've been blocked, then as far as that player is concerned, they don't exist.
That's correct. I suppose if the blocked player has more than one account, they could get around it. I can only imagine that circumventing the in-game system like that would be a great way to bring enforcement down hard.
Yup - as someone else has already pointed out FD do deal with at least some cases. I do not envy FD their job regarding processing of the reports as no doubt there are at least some that generate either spurious/unjustified or deliberately fake reports.
So your idea is:
Oh, I had somebody who was extra-mad about a game once make a parody account and send a lot of very racist stuff to other people, bragging that they couldn't do anything to the "real" account.
It's the 21st century.
So you're saying that just the accusation would be enough for you to block a player?
Are you railing against the possibility of false reports of cheating... by claiming that cheating is possible?
https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/faq.php?id=405.
Works like a charm. So basically christmas and national holidays in britain are cheating time in Elite.
Another reason I only play in Solo these days.
That just sounds like an assassin's guild with pucks.
Nah, actually I'd like a system which detects obvious cheats like the one I recorded.
Glad to have helped - Merry Christmas
Not necessarily, IME Cheaters and Hackers are rife through out the year in on-line games - they are like weeds and are not restricted to any one country (which could be faked by VPN).
Automated anti-cheat systems are a bit of a White Elephant (Punk Buster anyone?), DRM tools can help to a degree but no doubt that determined cheaters would find a way around them (at least to a degree).
There is no magic "fix cheating" switch. Every potential tool to stop cheating also creates a burden on the game and creates possible issues for legitimate players.
Same goes for habitual gankers and griefers.
Not looked at the vid yet and the post seems to have been removed so I can not comment on what you allegedly saw. But the fact it was removed seems to mean there was enough suspect information for perhaps FD to investigate (I have encountered at least some builds that seem to be near invulnerable - whether they are actually using cheat tools or not is an unknown)
There are measures that involve using a combination of crypto techniques, server handshakes, and one-time-passwords that can make it very hard for cheaters. But such approaches add burden to latency and bandwidth which can mean that in a real-time context such as ED they may be not viable.
