Data traffic is encrypted, so that at least would be hard (not impossible, but you have to work).
BTW, google just found me this. That's... interesting.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25960
Met My First Hacker Today
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Data traffic is encrypted, so that at least would be hard (not impossible, but you have to work).
BTW, google just found me this. That's... interesting.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25960
Well I don't feel the need to be so challenged in my gaming life so I am cool with 1. I make unique situations everytime I hit thrust by mistake inside a station so 2 is out as well. And as for 3? Well you are right but so was COD and it sucks now because of idiots. So was WOT, now sucks and I could go on with a very long list.
Do I want to get blown up inside a station by some moron hacker or stay solo? Hmmmm let me think!
If you have control over one endpoint encryption is trivially easy to crack.
I think the popular opinion here is that some people need morons to keep their gameplay unpredictable and interesting
And on #3, the game got rebranded at some point as "MMO", but look at the 2012 articles on this: http://games.on.net/2012/11/elite-d...nt-an-mmo-closer-to-things-like-call-of-duty/ And this rebranding was purely marketing thing, the game design hasn't change much (well, except making game saves cloud-based).
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It's not "trivially easy" if you sit outside the endpoint. You have to break into the endpoint too, and while obviously you can do that, you have to do a lot more work.
I think the popular opinion here is that some people need morons to keep their gameplay unpredictable and interesting
As somebody that played the original many, many years ago, I remember it as a solo game and am happy to continue. At some point I will dip in to MP but not to often and not whilst idiot hackers are about.
Its called a disinterested third party in literature and the idea is to swap them around occasionally to prevent (or reduce chance of) collusion.
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If you read many of the posts, you will see that some of us are offering advice that would normally cost a great amount of money (well dependent on how smart the guy reading it is).
The biggest problem in the com sec industry, is not the cost, the hackers, the tech but the deaf ears solutions fall on.
Those here, who know. Will have had times where morons fail to se the obvious.
Those here, who know. Will be able to list countless firms, organisations, and even pubic/government departments that bury their heads in the sand and refuse to even see the problem.
A celebrity in the field once described it as a pantomime, with a thousand voices shouting "he's behind you..." The reply... "oh no he isn't"
It is why many leave the industry, or fail to find work. Only to be later picked up by the authorities, and blamed for all manor issues relating to the problems they highlighted.
I still hope that FD is different... Hope?
Can anyone confirm that there is at least some hope?
Majinvash
Banned
Just got out of Lave before things got interesting.
Left Lave station.. Heading to my next jump point. Suddenly the entire radar is filled with white dumb fire signals.
I see a Player Anaconda and about 5 Cobras and Vipers suddenly being hit and then Wanted ( I assume point defence kicked in ) and the station ripping them apart.
I tried to look for who was firing the dumbfires but had no luck.
Majinvash
Left Lave station.. Heading to my next jump point. Suddenly the entire radar is filled with white dumb fire signals.
I see a Player Anaconda and about 5 Cobras and Vipers suddenly being hit and then Wanted ( I assume point defence kicked in ) and the station ripping them apart.
I tried to look for who was firing the dumbfires but had no luck.
Majinvash
Don't get me started on the short sighted publicity stunt that sony pulled...
If I made a stand up gig on this, people would assume it as a joke filled with unicorns...
Ask anyone who has heard my rants in TS...
was as it a hack, by the nicest friendliest hackers on earth... or a stunt? Mmmm
Only an idiot would get that wrong,
Enter President Obama...
REALLY w.t.f.
There isn't a workable solution - not one that wouldn't require a complete rebuild of the net code, or would cause more problems than it solves.
Honestly, I've hated Sony since back when they nerfed my Monk in EQ1
YEARS ago. So I'm glad they sold off their games to another company, hopefully they will do a better job running/developing the titles.
Well CMDR <snip> is the culprit here, sitting in George Lucas in Leesti, I saw him camped in the station, was attached at the entrance and my autodock failed. Pulled back out of range and waited. I saw the station pound this guy as he left the station and he flew right past me, I turned to give chase and fired a few direct hits but no effect. He then jumped away. I tried to dock again and the same thing happened. I think I ran into mines or something as I exploded on entering the station. The report - Killed by CMDR <snip>. What a sorry excuse for a human being. Tried to report via the correct channels but I think its busted, the game crashed. Unless its his P2P hack preventing reporting, who knows. So developers, take a look it happened in the last 15mins. Kick this loser out of the game.
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