How are the plans on the locking/keys etc. On our ships? Will we be able to leave our ships with a reasonable security (of the locking mechanism) while EVAing on to a station?asked by Dzel
TL;DRChris Roberts says ships will be keyed to their owner with more security than now, though the first mini-PU iteration is deliberately open and ways to break in, such as via EVA, are planned.
Yes. We're basically going to have a higher degree of security than we currently have on the ships. One of our thoughts was with SC Alpha 2.0 is, various, the, locking systems and how we're going to do it, we sort of figure that the very first iteration that we get out there, we're just making it more open and see what people do and then we'll obviously adjust some things, so things will be more reasonable. People can't steal your ships, people can't refuel as easily in areas that you should not be getting griefed in. Those are all features and functionality that we didn't really want to wait to program a complete nanny state and put it out there and then not have to do all that work so it's kind of better to get it out there and see what happens, but the idea is yes your ship should be keyed to you and you could enter it and then you could allow other people to enter. Then ultimately there will be some forms that people can break in or board like out in space for instance if you left your ship there someone may be able to EVA in and break the lock or blow the seal and get in, but it will definitely have more security than it currently does now. That's one of the things that we will start to do on our, further iterations of, the mini PU.