Being disabled means absolutely nothing if nobody will raid you. Maybe I've built up enough crew from artifacts to deter it... I'm pretty sure nobody raids at all... so being disabled would mean a paltry amount of credits to repair hull, and damage to a combat title nobody will rightly see if you actually consider yourself a hacker.

Well, people do complain in-game (comms) when they get disabled by someone, not saying it's a big thing.

Yeah, I would consider hacking more consequential by itself, with just the research... Getting an occupied planet location from your opponent is basically 'mean' in a bucket waiting to happen.

It's all but an opinion. Yeah, getting a planet location from your opponent, especially owned by the target is good. But then, how frequent are you going to hack a good planet out of your enemy?

It will take perseverance and tons of patience. Also, energy is lost and converted to research points instead of Experience, which may hinder your ranking up speed.
(may be negligible at first, but once you hack 100 times = 500 energy gone)

Well shucks, they should buff hacking... really though you shouldn't beg my ulterior motives out, thats mean. I usually have an excuse for hacking, like hey I'm under level <20 how else do I waste energy? or I captured research buildings I haven't researched yet, wtf? or "Maybe this works well together with energy research?"

Well I'm a bit too busy with the current mission to hack for the next two weeks, but I vow to find a better excuse than that last one. It's really not the coolest thing ever. Minding your own business and farming your sissy planets and doing energy research is probably the most efficient way to play. Disabling people is pretty pointless. I've definitely found human interaction in the game and there are some weird, almost unnoticeable benefits... not the humans, the hacking

Well 500 energy is about 1 days production of energy, discounting relays. My first successful hacks today earned between 20 and 30 research. Had I used the energy on a mission I would have levelled and lost the energy unused.

Therefore it was a very profitable exchange for me.

I dont know about all of those things but I do know that hacking does not take all the available research

You wait... and wait... and wait... that's the only solution I know of.

isnt it awesome?

Add more scan to discourage such hack-back

The chances of hack success is capped at 95% I think and there will always be a small chance for the enemy to hack back even without any scan/cloak. If 100% success was implemented, then hacking would be risk free.

Well if he has ANY cloak then it would be LOGICAL that he would have a small chance of hacking back.

Nothing is perfect.

Even planet invasions aren't 100% insured. I have failed invading a planet with absolutely no defense. Isn't this worse? A 24 hours before a second attempt

some says the RNG goddess smiles upon you some days it does not, something you just got to deal with.