I've been hacking people all day for the blue badges, the battle list "Enemy Players in Range" doesn't drop a ship that has been hack the say it does when you attack a ship. (Sorry, TheseGameSucks, I didn't mean to hack you twice).

What updates the battle list? I've seen it change on its own and when you change you scan level. Does it change every hour or randomly? I've had some ships on the list all day long.

Pro Hacker secrets out there? Two hints I've seen are leave a message on their comm so you see it and don't hit them twice. Also attack them once so the are removed from the battle list. Unfortunately both are IMHO energy and XP wasteful and at my pitiful rank of 36.

Ships stay on the BT until someone hits them. If you want to forcefully remove them from the tab, the only way is to do the highlighted section and "bump" them off it.

yeah, at rank 36, you don't have any good options.

i'm at rank 81, with 4 decryption frames, and if i get bored with how my BT tab looks, i will uninstall 1 frame and check again. usually a couple new ones pop in. i don't use TMs either, so the 15 minutes in between hacks can be helpful as well.

for you, i'd recommend keeping some tachyon cylinders and subspace seekers at hand, and use them whenever your BT gets boring. by the time their effects run out, your original scan setting may turn up some different targets on the BT.

after that, yeah, it's sacrificing the 5 energy for the bump.

Pro Hacker Tip: Open a spreadsheet, word document, or notepad. Keep a 5-10 day list (mine is 10 days) noting the date and who you've performed offensive actions against on each day. When in doubt, perform the search command (ctrl+f on Windows) and find when you last performed an offensive action on them. No energy used and comprehensive. I've been Legion Alerted about a thousand times fewer when doing this, and it lets me have proof (to myself at least) that their alert was unfounded. I personally give approx. 72 hours (3 days) time between badges, give or take 12 hours.

Doing this, I also note who has had a QFT up (in a special column labeled "QFT"), and I won't hack them unless a resource probe shows they have research (likely offline) and their hacks are one or more less than their raids (possibility of their QFT being tripped). If they are on the QFT list but don't meet those prerequisites I won't hack them.

The advantage of hacking someone who has no research points is you only have to wait 5 minutes instead of 15, but you still get a blue.

I'd been keeping a list, but not about the QFT. "their hacks are one or more less than their raids" Brilliant.

I've found simply changing your scan level changes the battle list, but if you uninstall all your scan so it is down to the default 1 you can only "see" ships that have 0 cloak, which has the positive side effect of letting you see ALL their equipment. Lots of "insane" combat types with everything in hull and weapons but nothing in scan or cloak, easy hack targets. Also a few easy disable targets if you are low enough rank there are still a few newbies. Those easy disables tend to die quickly, you can let someone else disable them and then you can raid them if you need yellow badges.

You can work it the other way and use a scan boost artifact to get a new set of ships to target for hacking. However I seem to run into more QFT's when doing that and oddly the higher scan doesn't let see all the modules on an enemy ship unless the scan is MUCH higher than their cloak.

On a side note anyone know how much more your scan over their cloak has to be to see what modules the enemy ship has?

I think it's something like 2 or 3x their cloak to see all their modules. If you can run 1 scan, enjoy it, because the AI Supercomputer ends up messing that up.

A lot of people with less cloaking lack QFTs because, since they have no cloaking, they get hacked more often. Changing up your scan is great for changing the BT too, in addition to random people leaving due to being attacked.

the disadvantage is that it does not count as a successful hack for leaderboards or medal completions.

Why, oh, WHY does the QFT even exist? It's like a troll trap. It doesn't help the user it just pisses off the victim...