Met My First Hacker Today

have you all reported him via the in-game report system?

I mean maybe we should give ED a chance, if they get multiple reports from different cmdrs - maybe they'll act and kill his account,
 
<snip> OR they could hand responsibility to the community for them to police it - but that comes with a whole heap of issues.

I guess that is what FD are doing.. and yes it does come with a whole lot of issues

Players are being encouraged or frightened into making their own groups or join respected ones if they can find them - yes it is an answer (until a hacker infiltrates em) but what about the many who don't follow forums or don't want to join a group for whatever reason.. FD need to clamp down as hard as they can on the Hackers we report - if not it just leaves a bad taste, a feeling that they actually don't care.
I see every good reason to publicly name hackers if they keep spoiling the fun for players over and over again if FD aren't going to do anything about it.
 
In any games there are hackers. That's happen. FD will do their jobs.
To help we only need to report and clearly describe the situation to find out if it's hacking or an exploit.
Better with a video recorded of the situation.
 
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I see some really silly comments here.

This is a station blockade. Lave station is closed for business until further notice.

- Absolutely no hacks
- No "silent running"
- Lots of chaff
- SCB's
- Staying power.
- Missiles.

Pop pop pop.... BOOM.

Reinforcements are on their way.
 
I see some really silly comments here.

This is a station blockade. Lave station is closed for business until further notice.

- Absolutely no hacks
- No "silent running"
- Lots of chaff
- SCB's
- Staying power.
- Missiles.

Pop pop pop.... BOOM.

Reinforcements are on their way.

So you are there! :)

Missiles ok, Probably Dumbfires.
SCB's ok, i can understand.
But no Silent running? You constantly dispear from my radar when you were hiding in station.
If you didn't "cheat/exploit", so good job.

Will get you next time. :)
 
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- Absolutely no hacks
- Lots of chaff

Interesting, I wondered if that was the deal. So what happens, you sit inside a cloud of chaff and the station defences barely scratch you? Are you spamming shield cells too or is the chaff enough?

P.S. I didn't report you for cheating (I have no evidence of that at all aside from a mild disbelief that the station defences weren't getting through your shields), I merely reported you for anti-social behaviour :D
 
I'm not sure it's so much that - hacking is rife in just about all online games, it's literally a plague that nobody can really fix.. I gave up comp counterstrike because of it, in BF it drove me nuts, it goes back as far as Quakeworld... the fact that people are hacking in ED is entirely predictable, and it's entirely predictable that nobody can really do anything about it..

they could spend a year re-designing everything and it still wouldn't work, OR they could hand responsibility to the community for them to police it - but that comes with a whole heap of issues.

while you ultimately can't prevent hacking to happen, you can however make it useless, check planetside2..
there is almost no hacker inside, why?
hacks exist, but they are detected and banned very fast, meaning they can't damage the game for long, and wannabe hackerz abandon it cause they know they will get caught very fast.

the best weapon is not obfuscation / encryption, it is detection/punition
 
We're not allowed to discuss players in the game? :/

A-grade Anaconda now in station to join the blockade, more reinforcements on-route.
 
ROFL - he just named himself!!!

You mean: someone created an account that could be him
the moderators or we here have no evidence and thus it's a problem. what would keep me from creating an account here called "CMDR Alec Turner" and posting "Yeah and I'm with Cmdr Cheat0rhax too, u all sux!!1"? :)
 
Hi everyone,

Just a quick reminder that you should report instances (as people already have been) through support tickets. We will then investigate the ticket and take the appropriate action. We won't ignore cheating, or take it lightly.

Cheers!
 
There's more disingenuous behaviour here by the griefed than by the griefer! CMDR<snip> (I've never met him in ED) has told people what he is doing. It's anti-social, but he has also been heralded as an ace pilot by others too. Either 1.1 is going to spoil his fun (and I suspect what he's doing is as much a "because it's there" as because he's an anti-social gamer. Comment welcome!), or we're going to have to arrange a lynch mob of highly motivated CMDRs to take him down. If he isn't cheating by the definition of playing the game according to its structure, then he isn't cheating period. Maybe the combination of 1.1 AND a self-appointed army of defenders is what's needed?
 
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Hi everyone,

Just a quick reminder that you should report instances (as people already have been) through support tickets. We will then investigate the ticket and take the appropriate action. We won't ignore cheating, or take it lightly.

Cheers!

Oh My God - the silent watchers have broken their vow of silence!
 
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