Could you invite the testers to a private Steam Communities group and hard-code the group ID into the mod instead? Then, simply use the Steam API to check for membership in that group.
// Adam Maras (memzero) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jed Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:04 PM To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming Subject: [hlcoders] Limiting access by Steam ID I know this is going to be a controversial subject but bear with me. I was asked by one of our Mod team if it would be possible for the internal beta version to lock them so that they could only be played by certain people. As we use SVN to allow testers to download/update the various builds it's percieveable they could give/share their SVN info and others could happily leech off it. The idea was to hard code a list of steam ID's into the DLLs for the duration of testing and basically refuse to load the game if you're not on the list. We're not thinking just stopping people joining games but actually stopping them completely so they can't make local listen or LAN servers. I've never gone this deep into the whole Steam side of things for getting ID's or where would be a suitable or safe place to put the check/reject code. Thoughts? Suggestions? - Jed P.S. We're a EP1 mod. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
