You could have called me...

[jmrc]

There was I, going in my business of sending Freighters here and there to bring materials to my shipyard in the PHQ, when suddenly I noticed a large concentration of square dots around it. Somebody hacked my PHQ and sent into space dozens of millions worth of comp substrate, sil carbide, met microllatice, ECs, and a lot more. No alarms, no sirens, no log entry about it, nothing.
In the PHQ I have the best spymaster/puppet master in the galaxy and the most intelligent Boron around and they don't even call me to say what just happened. I'm dispatching all the cargo drones in the vicinity to get back the goods, but I assume most will expire before they get recovered.

Any suggestions/tips about how to prevent this from happening?

[grapedog]

It may just be coincidental, but in my mid to late game stage, across multiple gamestarts, most of my station hubs have at minimum a single destroyer patrolling the area. And i can't recall those stations ever getting hacked after that point. Perhaps the presence of a warship on duty persuades the SCA to look elsewhere?

[Malchar]

Is it necessary to prevent it ?

I played a banished game, and I had a prosperous town with tons of goods in my granaries. Then a tornado spawn a destroyed most of my reserve, killing a quater of the population in the process.

Anyway to prevent it ?

bah, no. It is a kind of money sinker, or a bad event to test to resilience and your capacity of adaption.

Like you said you have been hacked. your alarm had been neutralized, false normal images were displayed of security control screen, at the same time power was shutdown on all your fleet ships.

Is it pleasant ? certainly not, but game on an other hand is easy, so we can afford some bad news from time to time.

If a solution exist to avoid this, just change easy game by very easy game.

[Fishille]

It may just be coincidental, but in my mid to late game stage, across multiple gamestarts, most of my station hubs have at minimum a single destroyer patrolling the area. And i can't recall those stations ever getting hacked after that point. Perhaps the presence of a warship on duty persuades the SCA to look elsewhere?

I was thinking the same. Usually keep a destroyer in protective stance over stations storing valuable wares and haven’t had this issue.

[KextV8]

It doesnt really matter in practice. We make so many goods with our factories that its a drop in the bucket.

[jmrc]

It may just be coincidental, but in my mid to late game stage, across multiple gamestarts, most of my station hubs have at minimum a single destroyer patrolling the area. And i can't recall those stations ever getting hacked after that point. Perhaps the presence of a warship on duty persuades the SCA to look elsewhere?

I was thinking the same. Usually keep a destroyer in protective stance over stations storing valuable wares and haven’t had this issue.

That is very interesting. I just diverted my single destroyer near the PHQ to capture a SCA Behemoth in Nopileos Fortune II nearby... I'll put the Phoenix back around the PHQ and check for future hacks. Thks.

[dark7np]

Huh, how common is that? I've never noticed that happening to me...

[gorman2040]

Huh, how common is that? I've never noticed that happening to me...

That's the problem, you only notice it if you look closely at your PHQ at the right moment.
Like others said, it doesn't seem to be a huge loss.

[Raevyan]

Huh, how common is that? I've never noticed that happening to me...

That's the problem, you only notice it if you look closely at your PHQ at the right moment.
Like others said, it doesn't seem to be a huge loss.

It depends. If you try to get 80k adv electronics and the universe is starving on those and you don’t have an oversized production yourself, a hack and loss of several 10k does result in way longer waiting times
I had this happen too when I researched mass teleportation. I just parked some rattlesnake next to the hq and killed every SCA destroyer that was coming nearby.

[steelman111]

I heard SCA can do this so I set the fire authorization override for SCA as "ruthless" by default so if any SCA vessel goes near my stations they get blasted to bits by the defences or patrolling vessels before they have the chance to do anything, aint no pirate plundering my stuff.

[gorman2040]

I heard SCA can do this so I set the fire authorization override for SCA as "ruthless" by default so if any SCA vessel goes near my stations they get blasted to bits by the defences or patrolling vessels before they have the chance to do anything, aint no pirate plundering my stuff.

If only it was that easy. They use cover mode and shows as a different faction. Their name or ship variant usually looks suspicious though, like ANT Rattlesnake, I didn't know that ANT started buying Rattlesnakes from the Split

[Zloth2]

"Intruder, would you be so kind as to take two steps back so that I can enact the purge protocols?"
--- The Most Intelligent (and only) Boron Around

Still, you would think somebody would notice all the cargo floating around outside and give you a heads up, or at least put in a log entry.