A question for fellow Admins.
Where I am a volunteer server Admin we have 33 CSS servers which are very
well frequented and extremely active.
We have a server watch program running that alerts us to the presence of
troublesome players, or players we know to have been caught cheating off our
vac is inadequate and does need help. I run steambans which does help
keep the cheaters out especially now they have merged with sharedbans.
The problem with vac is that it's a stationary target. the code has been
set and hasn't been updated. Streambans on the other hand is constantly
being
There is one downside to Shared bans... say for example the Admin on a
server with shared bans has the mental age of a 5 year old, and decides to
ban you, you havnt done anything wrong yet as well as being banned from 1
server your banned from all servers with shared bans, you havnt done
anything
Starting June 2006 we are watching Cheaters Strike Back episode of
Admin Wars series on our servers. After VAC launch last summer and
until end of May 2006 we had only five bans for cheats, now it is more
than fifty and more and more are added every week. I don't believe it
is a coincidence, most
Not sure what it looks like in Shared bans but we do have similar
project here in Russia and mandatory requirement to add new ban into
system is that you must have a proof of cheating - demo file,
preferably with movies illustrating the reason. By the way - movies
really help to increase people's
movies also introduce editing, and sometimes the lack of ingame sound which
can make the 'movie' bias. i would say watching the demo is better 'proof'
so to speak than a movie.lots of people get lucky, lots of people have good
headphones, a movie can make anyone look like a cheater.
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Maybe it has something to do with the announcement on
http://www.az-prod.com/ and Valve have given up on updating VAC since it was
always a losing proposition and is about to be replaced by something better
soon
NB: I will not held responsible
For such cases there is always a demo at hand while I'm speaking about
obvious cheaters like those who track a target through the wall - very
attractive movie for the public! Like this one -
http://public.otstrel.ru/otstrel/private/demo3.avi (6MB)
Regards.
On 07/08/06, Ryan Brady [EMAIL
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For those that pay attention to when VAC is updated, when was it last
updated?
On 8/8/06, Roman Hatsiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For such cases there is always a demo at hand while I'm speaking about
obvious cheaters like those who track a
Try this in a cmd file:
cd c:\somedir\hlserver
HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game hl2mp -dir .
pause
That will get you the dedicated HL2 DM server files, if you do not already
have them.
Run the server as you would any other dedicated Source (srcds) server. There
are several methods,
Fraiser,
Ooks is talking about HL1MP (IE: the Source port of HLDM) not HL2MP.
HLDSupdatetool doesn't have support for HL1MP at this time, there is only a
beta client.
qUiCkSiLvEr
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From: Frazer
To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:52 AM
i GUESS together with the sdk update (there was a 2 seconds css update !?).
hlstatsx analyses the log-files and lists all vac-banned. there are 18
today for my server. only 2-5 per day the last week!
a new cheat detected? or so many people using a detected old cheat?
Leopard
Whisper schrieb:
I have a hl2 DM server but I don't even start it anymore... nobody was
ever in it. I also have a hl DM server that always has people playing.
Gotta tell you something.
I don't know about CS and the other mods but for standard hl DM it's all
about game play. Graphics are pretty and it's kinda
I think Ooks is refering to HL DM dedicated server, not HL2DM dedicated
server files, but I'm sure you help is appreciated.
Mick
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From: Frazer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:52 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds] HL Source DM
Oops, my bad.
Thanks for the clarification.
F.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Ottalini
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 1:35 PM
To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
Subject: Re: [hlds] HL Source DM server out yet
Fraiser,
Ooks is
Sharedbans requires a 5 minute minimum demo submitted to them before a
player can be added as a cheater. They look over it and if they agree,
the account is added to the ban list. Can't get much better than that IMO.
Link
Alex Dignam wrote:
There is one downside to Shared bans... say for
I don't know if it's common knowledge or not, but Hammer is now broken for
Linux mapping. It doesn't compile the physics data for Linux, only Windows.
I guess we have to wait _yet again_ for another update.
They definitely need to look into using some kind of QC program at Valve.
This is
Do you know how hard it is to have one thing be completely the same from
windows to linux? From your posting here, I'm pretty sure you DON'T.
I'm also sure of the fact you don't know how hard it is to take on such a
large size project like CSS/HL2 and the rest of the games to be released and
run
Here you got mr. know-it-all; read this.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39159290,00.htm
Just to give you a little more of an idea why its so difficult to manage and
debug such a huge project as this.
Next time do a little more research before you come looking for cattle to
slaughter mr. map
The correct place for SDK feedback is http://developer.valvesoftware.com
or the hlcoders mailing list (subscribe via
http://list.valvesoftware.com). Ee removed the Linux specific physics
lump a while ago because it is no longer needed, both win32 and Linux
now share the same terrian information.
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You still havent figured out how to unsubscribe eh? It only has been a couple
months since you said you were done with the list so Im guessing it will be a
few more. It IS pretty tough to do ;)
Bush wrote:
Here you got mr. know-it-all; read this.
I'm am well aware.
I was just stating that if you now compiled a map using hammer, it won't
work on a Linux server.
It worked before the update. It now doesn't. I, being a programmer, am
aware about the complexities of multiple platform support. But as a
programmer, I enlist people to test
i do agree that the two platforms are very differnet but i also believe
that if a company like valve says it's gonna support both i expect them
to support both well and at the moment they can't seem to do that. So i
ask myself why they try as they are only disheartening and pushing users
away.
this is a quote from the link bush gave .
At Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday, a session
was devoted to how, according to one Microsoft fan at least, the Linux
kernel is beginning to resemble, well -- Windows.
that person is a blithering idiot. the 2 os's are aimed at two
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Dave, shut up. Windows has been improving siginificantly in terms os
stability and security.
The only one being significantly ignorant here is you and your linux
fan-boy-ish ass.
A) Linux distributions also have security issues
B) Linux
Dave, you obviously do not know the first thing about managing servers
running Windows Operating Systems. If your machine is being trashed by
spyware/malware/etc-ware, and you need to re-install it every week,
perhaps you need to do two things:
1. Stop installing un-trusted junk on your server
2.
Greedy kids. They want everything, now and for free. They think that
words like you work like Microsoft are terriblly offensive. Funny.
On 08/08/06, Dave Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this is a quote from the link bush gave .
At Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday, a
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