10 minutes of effort then. Fair enough.
So there’s currently a Cmdr stuck in the slot, station defences having no affect, assumed he’s proving a point about cheats...
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When was the last time people blocked the slot with ships while having healing beams? It's perfectly doable without cheats. Maybe that's the joke. That the trainer is the same god tier than the engineers, minus the grind.
I'm usually pretty crap at finding stuff on the internet.
Yet I found the hack in under 5 minutes, and attempted to report it to FD, only to give up, when I wasn't able to find their email address.
This became news when? We knew this three years ago.
I said it takes ten minutes to download the app and run it. I didn't say it takes ten minutes to download the app, register a second gmail account and grab a VPN.
Because it'll take fifteen. What even is your point?
Wasn't that why reverberating cascades were implemented?
Yes. And here we are, three years later. So FDs 'we are on the case!' means jack all. For real, anyone white knighting this is not helping anything or anyone.
Which is also by far the dumbest way to fix an obvious issue with the game.
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Right... and I can block pads and do a lot of other stupid things that detract from other's game experiences just to say I am proving a point. Everyone in the game gets to prove a point, no one gets any game play.
Maybe everyone else in the game doesn't give a damn about his political stance. We've already determined FD doesn't play their own game.
Well healing power creep beams are stupid in the first place. Once that seal has been broken nothing is off limits. Good thing though they took those god rolls back, whew... we almost had ships with slightly better abilities.
Thanks for sharing. The topic here is that it is possible to enable godmode and that someone is demonstrating that right now in public. Lets leave the whataboutisms for another time. If you do not want to discuss the ability to openly and easily cheat in the most blatant of ways feel welcome to find another topic to post in.
Since this isn't your thread and you're not the Jr Mod here, I'll post as I please. Maybe I'm trying to prove a point too.Thanks for sharing. The topic here is that it is possible to enable godmode and that someone is demonstrating that right now in public. Lets leave the whataboutisms for another time. If you do not want to discuss the ability to openly and easily cheat in the most blatant of ways feel welcome to find another topic to post in.
Don't worry, I'm not arguing with you. I hadn't realised it was that easy to set up an alt account that is completely separate to someone's primary if they wanted one kept clean. Whether it's 10 minutes, 15 or an hour in total, this seems alarmingly simple to do cleanly.
I'm guessing real cheaters are much more subtle thus reducing the chances of being caught anyway.
I guess it was part of the explanation. Game master allowed the players to be trolls and buffed their regeneration so they're invulnerable. Now all the Inns are equiped with flamethrowers.
Absolutely. And when you add the 'three strikes' rule per account and realize it can take months for FD to respond to repeated reports against a cmdr for one strike it effectively means that for $20-$30/year you can cheat to your hearts content. In case you weren't around; some time in the past cmdrs intentionally cheated then asked their friends to report them. FD said they 'dealt with it'. When the 'cheaters' then came here and said:"lol, no, we're still here and you lot did nothing at all.' FD responded they 'did an investigation and there was a rare case of miscommunication but normally we really do stuff for sure!'.
The underlying issue seems to be that way back in 2012 when designing the foundation FD had a very poor understanding of multiplayer gaming in general. Time after time exploits appeared that only existed because FD would assume gamers were nice gentlemen who would pinky swear to play kindly. They forgot to have proper trolls in their testing and designing teams. When you hear David Braben talk about how he envisions PvP, or when you heard his confused response to the request to have ED on this weird new-fangled underground thing for kids called 'Steam' you know they weren't up to speed. And that shows here. I dont think FD really can do much without a drastic overhaul of how data is handled and how the network infrastructure functions. If I am wrong I'll gladly have FD prove me so. If I am right I would like FD to openly state so and either change something or make it clear they bungled up and cheating is here to stay.
Mistakes can be made. We're all human. Sometimes mistakes are of the kind they cannot be easily rectified. If this is one of those case, I get that. Honestly. But whatever they do, I would politely ask them not to tell me porkies because that is very rude.
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Now if only FDev would get the rather simple idea to
It just became almost physically impossible unless you happen to run a Military Datacenter with hardcore specialists working on it in realtime - or hack the FDev Servers to attain the Sources.
By the time anyone foolish enough to waste time and crack a single encryption metric - it's long obsolete and irrelevant.
Seems alot of effort but a fast rotation of all key components drastically reduces the requirements.
Even a very basic version of above would likely be quite effective.
- checksum and encrypt all internally handled and critical Ship stats before committing to Memory (something old & very fast is good enough)
- use a daily or even hourly rotation for keys, crypto modifiers and the specific method by the Servers
- (optional) encryption/decryption code fully modular and transmitted on-demand by Servers, not a fixed/static part of the Client
- any non-spurious anomaly (detected manipulation attempt) automatically transmitted to Servers for FDev review and rejected by Client (checksum fail)
It just became almost physically impossible unless you happen to run a Military Datacenter with hardcore specialists working on it in realtime - or hack the FDev Servers to attain the Sources.
By the time anyone foolish enough to waste time and crack a single encryption metric - it's long obsolete and irrelevant.
Seems alot of effort but a fast rotation of all key components drastically reduces the requirements.
Even a very basic version of above would likely be quite effective.
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At the very least it proves that the response time to blatant rules violations is glacially slow.
Utterly beside the point. The issue has exactly nothing to do with blocking the slot to a starport or questionable Engineer mechanisms and effects.
The issue is that someone can openly appear to cheat in front of witnesses and not be promptly removed from the game.
I think everyone can take from it what they will, as the issue.
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