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Hacking Computer v3 (Obsolete)
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KingOfFriedChicken 4 Mar, 2020 @ 2:30pm
Bug Report...
Maybe, i think this is a bug and i hope its not intended as its fairly exploitable!!!

I hesitate to post something like this as its likely to be used in the wrong way but here are some screenshots and what i was doing:

The first thing is these can just be stacked on each other in a long chain and it looks silly lol

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2013976366

The second thing and its a much more serious issue is if you do this first one and just attach to any grid via landing gear these devices start hacking the grid as you can see i used a silly design of a ship to attack a mobile fortress style ship!!! all i had to do was clear out turrets and land on top of it BOOM the grid was mine.... it hacks right thru the landing gear itself!!!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2013976348

Luckly these wont hack in safe zones, (as far as i can tell) so you can use this method to steal a safe zone (i tried to no personal avail) but all i would have to do is build a couple small landing gear hacking devices and launch them like torpedo's at other grids to take them over :p
Last edited by KingOfFriedChicken; 4 Mar, 2020 @ 2:30pm
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Xarniia 7 May, 2020 @ 10:40am 
Hello!
The hacking does not trigger reputation loss.
Would be great to see that.
Thank you very much! Great work!!! =D
Last edited by Xarniia; 7 May, 2020 @ 10:40am
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Kramles 29 Jul, 2020 @ 1:49pm 
I noticed the same issue with hacking blocks from grids connected via landing gears. Furthermore i noticed the hacking continues even after unlocking the landing gear, you have to grid the hacking computer down to prevent further hacking. I've worked with a buddy of mine on a DS (we are in different factions) on a pirate ship, he has build a hacking computer onto the ship and i locked my landing gear to use my dampeners to stop the ship from moving. He hacked my ship, i noticed it and disconnected but at one point i got dropped out of my cockpit because his computer keeped hacking my ship :)
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OCD Insomniac 30 Jul, 2021 @ 4:49am 
Hacking through the landing gear is not a bug...it's a feature that was added in the last 2019 update. Likewise, the hacking computer will hack through connectors as well.

Personally, I like that the hacking computer doesn't cause reputation loss. Makes for nice farming of neutral factions...and makes you a master pirate. If a ship gets commandeered and no one is around to see it, how would anyone know it was you? =P Seems more stupid that you can hack an antenna first to kill all communications...but still take a faction hit.

@Kramles Simple fix...just turn off the hacking computer ...then it won't "keep hacking" you. Maybe just get into the habit of keeping the hacking computers turned off unless you actually want to hack something..then just turn them on. There ya go...no more accidents.
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Grumpy Old Gamer 3 Sep, 2022 @ 12:06pm 
I think the only part that is a bug is that it continues to hack a grid once the hacking computer is no long part of that grid. That needs fixed. But the rest I believe is intended behavior, i.e. code was specifically added to enable that functionality.
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