Hacking Turret MkV Controller

[Pumpkin]

So there is no way to hack and steal a MkV Turret, right? I guess it's intented. I just wonder why.

Too powerfull? But since they have been recently reworked, maybe it would be interesting to make controllers hack-able by fabricator hackers or a new specific one.

Another answer could be "it's because they are controllers, not constructors with a stored design"... Well, it sounds consistent.

Just a little side question: I know AIs use to build turrets (thus human raid starships' multiplicator against turrets are totally useless), but now they don't, why do they still have turret controllers?

[Lord Of Nothing]

I think they are already hackable- it's an undocumented feature on the fabricator hacker, IIRC.
As to why it has turret controllers, and the description thereof- purely so that you can capture them- they were added long after the AI stopped having turrets of it's own. From a fluff perspective, that is perhaps a slight hole.

[Peter Ebbesen]

Fabricator hacks also hacks turret controllers.

[Pumpkin]

I think they are already hackable- it's an undocumented feature on the fabricator hacker, IIRC.

Fabricator hacks also hacks turret controllers.

Strange... I posted just after trying to hack a controller with a fabricator hacker. I'll try again. Be right back.

EDIT: Well, it worked. (with a lone hacker! It mush be an achievement: "passive hack"!) Sorry for being a jerk (as usual, I'm starting to think  ). I have no idea why I thought it didn't work. Maybe fabricator/advanced constructor confusion.

[Bognor]

I have no idea why I thought it didn't work.

Well it used to not work, and then Keith changed something for some other reason, and a side-effect of that change was to make turret controllers hackable.

I think the take home message is that there's text somewhere that needs updating, probably the description (and name?) of the Fab Hacker.