Hi.

I am thinking of coming back. But I've heard from my old buddies that there is a rampant exploitation of hacked ships in the game (no names).

Any ETO on some sanity check for those hacked ships? No fun when you bring a gun only to be waxed by a cannon.

Thanks!

Oh, it really is horrible! The hacked ships! They are everywhere!
Us unmagical folk stand no chance at ALL against those multitudes of EVIL, EVIL people with super-EVIL hacked ships that they abuse SO MUCH! There are just too many of them!!!!

Also, the vulturius goes 240m/s, the EC-88 will someday become available through a mission and the pirate hogs have infinite ammo! Not to mention, the people that kill people at corvus stations use cheats to not lose standing and somehow never get and SF on them!!!!!!!!!11!
And waylon left guild software to participate in a top secret government experiment on male pregnancy!
And VO is actually a bunch of adware and spyware masquerading as a fun game!!!!!!
And eon8 is a countdown to a terrorist strike/hackerness strike/new videogame!!!!11!1!!!
And tea with rose petals in it tastes GREAT!!!!!!!!11!!!!
And Dark Knight will some day actually pay for a real life subscription!!!!
And you go blind from touching your naughty bitsss!!!!
And Harry Potter is DA BESTEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!11!!!

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Um, hacked ships? We had a few lua problems briefly.

He is referring to the ships built during the lua problems. Many people stocked up, and some aren't honest about it, and are using them in combat.

Some kind of undock sanity check to make sure the ship undocking is equipped with the correct engine would be a permanent way to squash this issue.

Ah! And thus we find the "buddies" responsible for making softy look stupid!
Thanks tumble, you made me smile today!

PS: I myself have hacked all my ships to be beyond damage! And boy did I stockpile them!

Inc :

Yeah, what tumble says.

Actually, I was not being too honest. I actually have an account active to support the game but I have not played for a long while. When this LUA thing was discovered, I hopped in for a moment and try out some of the tricks.

I did hack a "few" ships, and they fly in an unreal manner. The exploit of *creating* these ships have been fixed, but I have a bunch of unreal superships that I can bring out and kill a lot of things with ease. (I've also created the "superfast transport" ship that everybody was clamouring about by sticking a Rag engine into a EC89, kinda like sticking a human brain into a parakeet.)

I do plan to play a bit more actively, maybe in the future, but I think the game is a bit borked right now with all these crazy ships lying around.

Thanks

[edit : p.s. i am surprised nobody have brought this up, a week after the LUA thing has been fixed.]

i have seen such hacked ships (eh, a bus outmaneuvering a valk), but have not (yet?) witnessed abuse of it.

i have, nonetheless, expressed my concerns over the issue.

i think those non-conforming ships should be pruned. if at all possible.

Well, I'm just out of the loop I guess, off in UI la-la land. Ray and Andy were working on a script last week to "fix" all the incorrect ships in the database. So, we will be fixing them in due course.

Great the hear that. Thanks inc.

Sigh, if only people didn't have to use the bug for combat purposes...

I'll admit I have a few myself, but I purposely only made one of each kind to prevent any urge to fight with them. I only have mine for bragging rights and collecting purposes, not to unfairly piss people off.

When this script goes into effect, will it just replace the hacked engines with the correct ones or make the ships unusable entirely? I'm hoping to being able to fly my favorite prospecting corvus maud again, even without infiniboost. It's been with me charting roid fields since mid-July.

-Nautargos

Damn, I'm jealous. I'm not a haxxor or friend of a haxxor it seems. Maybe I should start talking down the hackers.

It'll just replace the incorrect engines with the correct engines.

Thank you very much, Guild Software. I kept myself from making any, but was seriously concerned that the choice was a silly one.

I'm a big fat cheat too! My Hog mk2 with a free engine just eats people without much effort!

No, seriously, the sanity check needs a higher priority or something, i've managed to resist chasing folk round in my valk bus (infact I got mystic to blow it up, but thats another story :P), but only just...

Yoda, I think it hasn't run yet.

Yeah, now would be a good time.

Yeah, sorry about the delay on that. I'm bugging Ray about it now... I hope to have it taken care of in a few hours.

And tea with rose petals in it tastes GREAT!!!!!!!!11!!!!

*shudder* Blech. (But they're rose hips, not petals.)

edit: ok, done. I think.

How the hell do you know what Genka puts in his bloody tea?

lol

btw, thanks a1k0n.