Is stealing data just intercepting transitions or can info runners also hack a ship data core remotely?
TL;DRThey want to add remote hacking and have several designs, but it needs time to prototype and pick one; it should be balanced and a logic puzzle, not a quick-time event.
So definitely we want to go towards the hacking thing. It's something we've had our eye on for a while. It's just that there's so many things to do before we get to do that. It's one of these things that there's quite a few designs on this, different designs. Either of those will make great hacking gameplay. It's just a matter of getting the time and actually implementing, prototyping them a bit and seeing which one plays best. And once we get that, we go with one and we go into full production with it and then we can get this type of gameplay. But we want something like this. Again, since we're talking mining earlier, an example is a miner is sitting on a rock and trying to extract everything out of it. Then you can come in a stealthy ship and start hacking him and you find out that he has a database of whatever, 5,000 rocks that he knows the location of. He's just going through them and extracting all the goodies. So you can extract that data of 5,000 rocks and just go, yeah, I will sell this to the highest bidder. Who wants this new data? This miner might have worked or paid for that data like half of his fortune, because he knows then he's going to make so much money out of it. But now you stole that data, you can sell it to a highest bidder or to your friends in your organization who are also miners. And suddenly that guy, out of 5,000 rocks, might get 100 because you're faster and you have a bigger fleet and you're strip mining everything. It depends. And we also have to look into ways of protecting yourself against this type of thing. Because we don't want it to be just that I push a button and I win the game of hacking. It needs to be a balance.
And probably want to stay away from things like quick time events. Push B, push Y.
No. None of that stuff. Especially when it comes to hacking, we're kind of trying to stay as realistic as possible. Hacking is a mind game. It's a logic puzzle. It's always something you have to rack your brains to solve. So it's not going to be, whoever pushes the button faster wins the game. Definitely.