I can't think of any exploit which would let you find people using the XML, which wouldn't also let you find them (slowly) using the Starmap itself. For example, if you have enough listening posts, just scroll down the list looking for yellow detections - that's pretty easy. If you have thousands of systems in your list, it's slow, but still easy.
All the XML does is let you sort through the Starmap more quickly, for intended or unintended purposes. Unfortunately, the intended purposes are so important that removing it seems fairly catastrophic...and leaves the unintended purposes still operative, just slower and more cumbersome. So the design goal would remain defeated, wouldn't it? Am I missing something here?
All the XML does is let you sort through the Starmap more quickly, for intended or unintended purposes. Unfortunately, the intended purposes are so important that removing it seems fairly catastrophic...and leaves the unintended purposes still operative, just slower and more cumbersome. So the design goal would remain defeated, wouldn't it? Am I missing something here?