Does this mean black boxes left over from PVP can be used to blackmail said PVPers? By capturing the Black Box of a pirate's victim can I then use that BB against the pirate? Pay me X$ or I turn the data in to the UEE?asked by Grimzod

From the way that we're looking at doing the PvP combat, is that if you're in a system and you get attacked by someone else doing PvP and it's a system where it's regulated, where there isn't meant to be PvP, as long as-... as soon as the attack happens, the ship's computer of the person getting attacked sends a distress beacon out. And that distress beacon, in a regulated system there'd probably be, like, relays, and then the relays - they'll get broadcasted around, so it sort of is a report of the attack. And there will be some very expensive and hard to use-and-get equipment that will allow, you know, someone that's trying to do a heist, or a pirate to maybe potentially block a broadcast, but it won't be particularly easy to do and it will be something that we'd want, if someone's trying to do a heist - you know, like knocking out the equivalent of an armored truck or something - then they would have to maybe try and blanket out the local relays, and so they won't get the UEE after them.But I'm not so sure we're going to have a "black box" so to speak, because it's more like a distress beacon that gets sent out, and then either it gets picked up by the relays, or it gets somehow intercepted and blocked. So I guess you can't really do the blackmail. A black box is kind of an interesting idea, but right now that's not in the development plans.