How prevalent are cheats / hacks in the game?

peter101cycle

peter101cycle
Bit of a question about the prevalence of cheats and hacks in the game.

So I'm in Eravate in my Anaconda, trying to find an assassination target (gave up in the end). After about 20 minutes u start to give up and notice a Cmdr in a Viper with a 12k wanted bounty in the system. Probably Harmless or mostly Harmless rating I can't remember.

Anyway so I think "valid target" for the bounty and anything else they may be due from other systems.

So I interdict.

When I get him in sight I open up with 3 Class 3 beams while KWS scanning. Then after that's done and the Viper us maneuvering around me, I switch to 2 Class 1 turret beams.

I didn't manage to affect the Vipers shields at all. And after 2 mins they combat logged anyway after disappearing.

So my question is if this player was using hacks and should I report for this and logging anyway?

I do worry for the game if relatively new players such as this one, maybe already using cheats.
 

Zplintz

Zplintz
I've never met a cheat/hack player.

Not sure how combat logging 2mins after disappearing works or why someone would combat log if their shields were invincible (sounds like a networking issue to me) but if you think this was cheating/hacking then report the player and leave FD to deal with it.
 
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Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
To listen to some people on the forums, cheaters are everywhere! They follow you when you jump, they are hiding behind stations! They are everywhere!

Not met one myself yet, but i keep track on what they can do by reading the cheat forums, so ill hopefully spot it if I meet one.
 

andyraptor

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peter101cycle said:
Bit of a question about the prevalence of cheats and hacks in the game.

So I'm in Eravate in my Anaconda, trying to find an assassination target (gave up in the end). After about 20 minutes u start to give up and notice a Cmdr in a Viper with a 12k wanted bounty in the system. Probably Harmless or mostly Harmless rating I can't remember.

Anyway so I think "valid target" for the bounty and anything else they may be due from other systems.

So I interdict.

When I get him in sight I open up with 3 Class 3 beams while KWS scanning. Then after that's done and the Viper us maneuvering around me, I switch to 2 Class 1 turret beams.

I didn't manage to affect the Vipers shields at all. And after 2 mins they combat logged anyway after disappearing.

So my question is if this player was using hacks and should I report for this and logging anyway?

I do worry for the game if relatively new players such as this one, maybe already using cheats.
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If you have any evidence to support this.. please go through the support channels.... the more of these players we get sent to the shadow server... the better

Zplintz said:
I've never met a cheat/hack player.

Not sure how combat logging 2mins after disappearing works or why someone would combat log if their shields were invincible (sounds like a networking issue to me) but if you think this was cheating/hacking then report the player and leave FD to deal with it.
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never met a hack user ... but make a instant diagnosis of networking issue.... nice one

stick with what you know

if you think this was cheating/hacking then report the player and leave FD to deal with it
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:)

no baiting me please :)
 

aws357

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Zplintz said:
I've never met a cheat/hack player.

Not sure how combat logging 2mins after disappearing works or why someone would combat log if their shields were invincible (sounds like a networking issue to me) but if you think this was cheating/hacking then report the player and leave FD to deal with it.
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There was a notorious shield hacker that scourged open and mobius for a time. Been taken cared of, but will probably come back another way.

It was certainly not a network issue because the cmdr used to stay inside stations for a long time while shooting people undocking.

Shield never took a scratch from the station turret defense.

And there are many sites advertising hack allowing people to farm RES while offline.

:D makes you wonder about people complaining their ship exploded when they logged off in an asteroid belt.
 

Steve50

Steve50
I've been playing since alpha and come across 3-4 blatant cheats/hacks. So there are obviously some pathetic people using them but I don't think it's a huge issue. ..although that said, I do tend to avoid people heavy systems so perhaps you'd see a lot more around those?
 
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