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Met My First Hacker Today
- Thread starter Blaeringr
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We were young and fools. Now we're professionals, and we don't work for free
what will stop that scum from naming and shaming you then ? Or any innocent player ?
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We were young and fools. Now we're professionals, and we don't work for free
Dude, I have had contracts where I did not get paid.
I have even gone pro bono (for charity and because I am a nice guy...lol)
They could offer bounties but I doubt anyone would ever see a dime!
If we do nothing, there will soon be nothing to play... I waited 30 years for this, my anger at FD is at least as much as yours. Yet if I knew the would listen, I may be persuaded to point them in the right direction.
I am willing to bet, if you got a call from Big Boy Dave Braben you would do the same. Just a few hints perhaps. At least he has a clue compared to all those "we don't need that" "you have watched to many movies" and the dreaded "We already have an EXPERT in the field" lol
For giggles: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131781/the_internet_sucks_or_what_i_.php?print=1
"Third on our list of problems was that we would not have a dedicated server available; we would have to use a peer-to-peer network model. The expense of providing servers with sufficient processing power and bandwidth for our expected audience size was considered unreasonably high. And because of the nature of the license we were working with, allowing gamers to set up their own servers was not a viable alternative. A peer-to-peer system avoids the problem, but it poses a significantly more challenging engineering problem, because each player must communicate with several other players, instead of with a single server. Because the Internet does not have a viable multi-casting capability, sending the same message to three destinations requires three times as much bandwidth as sending it to a single destination...."
This is from what year? Bingo! 99! We're back in the 90s, awesome, those were my best years and I loved the music
Yep...
Those were the days, changing playlists on late night radio shows after they sacked the DJs and used digital tracks and playlists made months earlier.
The last days of pirate stations, as any idiot in a bedsit could jack the telephone line for free internet and use said stations as their own personal jukebox...
90's Italo dance all the way to 6 am...lol
True, though in games far worse than Elite, where leveling mattered such as DAOC and WoW in terms of being "punished" if you were caught, we still have had hackers.
At 63, I guess I fall in the "old people" category you are talking about. I am in computers since the 1980s, I have built all my PCs myself, have been programming with all kind of languages since DOS times, in my private life and in my job (on large company systems). I have also been gaming for 25 years almost daily. I know well how to use e-mail and I guess I could probably teach you one or two things.
I'm in my mid 50's & quite often get calls from my grown up kids who need help because their computer is playing up & "Dad will know what to do" Never failed yet'. Don't make the mistake of thinking us 'oldies' don't know what we're doing!
I don't think they don't now how, which adresses they are playing with in order alter things because it is a public site, you don't even need to create an account, they will probably let main server save some more values in certain areas inorder to prevent people from altering values client side.Which in the end might look like a job for a dedicated server.
This has me wondering about the way the framework is built and the near complete crossover between solo and group. How possible would it be for a hack to join another players solo mode?
I did report the incident, but thats not ging to change the overall situation. Locking hardpoints in stations would be one way, and i dont think it would be unrealistic in the elite universe. making it an expensive experinece to deploy them or enter the station with deployed HP's + a single use of HP's inside the station leads to instant death + harsh fine would do it too.
Anyway this is a pretty bad experience and frustrating. But patching olish behaviour with software updates will never work completely. I will stay in open for now, but will pay much more attention.
K, why are you still here and still posting?
Was having fun reading this very interesting thread when I saw this abashed display of information security ignorance. I want to warn any of you young inexperienced users like this that poster that may be reading this. DO NOT rely on anti-virus for security. Yes, it is a good low-end base, but it has not been a protection for at least the last 5 years. Since consumer malware kits first came out in '09, kiddies have been able to create code that can bypass the best AV.
True, the only completely secure system is a boot from Linux live-dvd, but anyone on a Windows system that just downloads and relies on AV WILL be riddled with malware just as Marikic0 is and he does not even realize it...
Well space is a vacuum... perhaps he should not be sticking his parts out of the ship?
Sandboxie is your friend. On a related note, WHY DOESN'T ED WORK IN SANDBOXIE?!
I can work for free for charity, not for a business company
A bit of advice yes, why not, I have no problem with that.
Well not really surprised. If it would be a real MMO with servers then most fighting stuff would be determined by the server and the cheat would most likely not be possible. But being a peer 2 peer thingy to reduce costs for FD makes it vulnerable to all kinds of cheats. This will break the games neck like it did for NFSW and devs didn't do anything against it. If they would have cancelled online and made it offline only it would have been a way better decision for the games future, especially regarding the 'expertise' of FDEVs.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare II... the begining of the end. They promised so much, user made content, servers etc. I was running a website that specialised for the modding community. When CoD went peer 2 peer, the site slowly sank to nothing. Our entire reason to exist ceased. The people who made the game saved a fortune, ensured that users could not create maps etc. A whole generation of budding modders / game designers were kneecapped.
All CoD games from that moment on were so riddled with cheaters it was completely pointless playing.
IMHO P2P is the death of mulitplayer gaming. I understand why Elite: D has been rolled out for p2p, but is the biggest mistake, a false economy.
Ubisoft another example, useless MP flight sims, filled with cheaters and griefers.
There is no solution to the cheaters, if CoD can't manage it, with the highest grossing game of all time (at that time)... no one can.
Personally I play solo, and would cheerfully and prefer to play off line altogether.
All CoD games from that moment on were so riddled with cheaters it was completely pointless playing.
IMHO P2P is the death of mulitplayer gaming. I understand why Elite: D has been rolled out for p2p, but is the biggest mistake, a false economy.
Ubisoft another example, useless MP flight sims, filled with cheaters and griefers.
There is no solution to the cheaters, if CoD can't manage it, with the highest grossing game of all time (at that time)... no one can.
Personally I play solo, and would cheerfully and prefer to play off line altogether.
What is this FUD you're trying to spread?
Not to mention that you're wrong. The only truly secure system is inside a tempest-shielded box with no way to access from the outside.
Cowards with dumbfires eh! It's amazing what kids will get up to to make up for the fact that they can't get a girlfriend.
BTW - I would strongly advise anyone reading this thread to ignore the advice to also cheat.
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