So is this game worth exploiting (ahem I mean) playing?
That’s no way to treat role playing space pirates
This actually might be a good use case for a proof of steak open ledger, kind of like a cryptocurrency, but no crypto required.
Every item in game would have a chain of custody to an origination event, duplicates would be trivially obvious, you could see where bugs are duplicating things, or at least the time they got duplicated.
Incrementing and integer in a database is fine, and efficient, but but when you start to make it a currency, then you have fungibility issues and chain the custody issues like we’re seeing now.
Obviously this can always be addressed by writing perfect code and accounting for every origination in the code, but if the programmers aren’t perfect, moving to a ledger makes more sense
proof of steak
Is that like a cryocurrency?
More like open sauce version of a database.
More like inventory management and less like cryptography. It’s an open ledger, which is commonly used in cryptography, but is also useful in inventory management
Right now star citizen has a database, and they control the values in the database, but these duplication glitches mean some of the code which has authority to change these values is doing it incorrectly. So the database itself just has extra integers added all willy nilly.
An open ledger, would provide a chain to custody for every new item in the game, at least the money, making these duplication glitches either impossible or, trivially obvious when they happen
There’s no reason this could not be implemented on a traditional database no need to make it open, or using distributed ledger technology, but distributed ledgers exist, and depending on how they program, could be just drop in to their program.
Plus an open ledger would mean all of these space cowboys would keep an eye on it and raise hell when they saw something fishy
I think he was making lighthearted fun of you for misspelling stake.
He knows. Thats why he said open sauce.
Missed that one lol
Is that like a cryocurrency?
I’m getting chills just thinking about it.
I can’t wait for my entire GPU to be used so I can’t steal money in a single player game.
It shouldn’t have anything to do with client-side code.
The universe infrastructure has a database now, that database now needs to track where money comes from and where it goes, so instead of saying you have a dollar and somebody else loses a dollar it says Bob sent you a dollar.
Or for the ships, instead of duplicating a ship, you update the title record of the ship to say who the current owner is, with a history of all the previous owners.
Thanks for the explanation. Your idea seems well thought out, my comment is out of place since I read Starfield as the name of the game.
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I actually only have a complete and fundamental misunderstanding of the game, since I read Starfield.
It was originally meant as a joke.
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But isnt the game in pre-alpha or whatever not finish state?
Don’t they reset the servers regularly? People are supposed to test the shit out of it… How can you be suspended?
This scam makes non senses…
Okay, so I was around for this, so I saw what was involved and the outcome. To do the exploit involved filling your ship with some valuable cargo and then leaving it parked in a spot where it was technically not landed, in order to intentionally glitch the cargo grid. This would then let you sell the same cargo over and over.
The result of this was huge amounts of ships littering the landing zones in a completely unintended way, which would tank both the FPS of anyone else in the area and the server tick rate. This in turn makes the game look worse, it hampers efforts to test other things, etc etc.
As for the testing of exploits argument, CIG did say in their announcement that such is actively encouraged. They only suspended accounts for people who were doing it over and over and over and over and over. Basically anyone who was just using it to grind huge amounts of in-game money and making the play and testing experience for everyone else worse. Most of these people weren’t even reporting the bug.
Probably a lot of them were selling the credits on ebay, which… yes, is a thing, sadly. Even though progress is still being wiped occasionally, there’s still gold farmers. There’s actually a warning you have to click through every single login for this, but I’ve seen people argue for it, the idiots.
BTW, it’s in alpha right now, not pre-alpha (which I don’t personally believe is a thing).
…in a primarily single player game.
Ok then.
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lol oops
Star Citizen != Spacerim (Starbound)
Star Citizen is an exclusively online game, though?
