Hacking with the Trojan ROV (drone) can be initiated on both friendly and hostile targets. If you're on friendly terms of a target, you can also dock and there's the option of hacking internal computers too.
Ship Hacking
Drone hacking
To initiate a drone hack, you must have purchased a Trojan ROV, available at many drone dealers.
To hack a ship fly within 1km of the ship and activate(double click) the ship; select Drone Hack on the radial menu that just popped up.
Now several icons will have popped up over the surface of the target ship; fly to within 100 units and activate one; you will be presented with a minigame.
This timing game requires you to match the line with the highest frequency point that is visible on the graph; there are several in the chart that will result in success and several larger ones which result in failure.
Once you have succeeded in this minigame, the following affects are immediatly applied to the ship:
Disable all components, shields reset to 0. Capital shield generator restores even when hacked(probably a bug).
Damage 20% on all components.
Drop cargo containers 20% (?)
Hack effect should last for 3 hours.
Ship based Control Panel hacking
To hack a ship from the inside, simply activate(double click) the docking icon on any friendly or neutral ship and select dock.
Find a control panel inside(named and visually unique) and use the appropriate item, listed below, to gain the benefit shown on the chart.
| Terminal | Item | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Shield terminal | Security Decryption System | Drains and disable shield generators |
| Repair terminal | Temp Local Security ID | bugged, item unavailable on ships |
Station Hacking
Some missions may reqire player to hack station components: Rising tide mission chain and generick Hack station missions.
Mission can be finished by drone or from control panel hack.
Drone hacking
Hacking storage module cause it to drop some ware in space. Station will attack player if player ship picks up that containers unless player hacks security panel inside station beforehand.
Control panel hacking
| Terminal | Item | Terminal location | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turret | Security Decryption System | Station Administration | Disable turrets for 5-10 minutes (whole station or one module?) |
| Discount | Temp Local Security ID | Free Commercial Port | Gives 10% discount and comission (duration not specified?) |
| Drone | Security Decryption System | Station Administration | Disable drones for 30-60 minutes (is local police counted as drone?) |
| Repair | Temp Local Security ID | Spacecraft Workshop | Disable repair for 1-5 hours (whole station or one module?) |
| Production | Temp Local Security ID | Free Commercial Port | Disable production for 1-5 hours (whole station or one module?) |
| Shield | Security Decryption System | Spacecraft Workshop | Disable and drain shields for 5-10 min (whole station or one module?) |
| Security | Security Decryption System | Station Administration | Station will not react to picking up hacked containers for 2-10 min |