I started to try and be funny and simply send a one word reply that said "HACKER".
I had 3 servers running 1.5 up until they shut down the WON auth servers. Two of them were really popular and stayed packed constantly (my IRC channel actually had people in it waiting for open slots). The only way I've found to completely safeguard your server from malicious cheaters is to have a butt-load of trusted admins. For the 2 main servers, I had built a list of over 40 admins. At any given time of the day or night, I was likely to have 2-3 admins on each server. Sure, I had occasional admin fights and abuse complaints. I would have to post things on my forums reminding admins of the rules from time-to-time. But it's better than having some hacking faggot join your server, go 40-0 and run everyone out of there. As far as the clever or marginal hackers go (those who simply turn on the hacks from time to time) we can only hope that, as hack detection improves, they have to keep trying to get new CD keys to get back in the game. As long as they aren't scaring off the rest of my regulars, it doesn't matter as much. I've had regulars that ended-up getting banned because "their cousin came over and downloaded hacks onto their computer and got them banned". That's just a cover story for the fact that VAC updated and they got banned as soon as they joined. Cut your losses and ban their new ID also. They can't be trusted. They're either lying about it, or too stupid for words. Software programs and patches can only do so much to help us out. They can thin the herd of hackers down to a managable level. Beyond that, it takes real human intervention and monitoring. Sure... sometimes good players get banned just because they're good players. You wanna know something? If they're so good that the n00bs are leaving the server in frustration, it's time to boot them anyway. I'd rather boot one innocent "good" player and save my newbie population. Then again... all of my servers have "n00bfest" in the title. ;-) CorpseHumper http://www.CorpseHumper.com --- Guido Rainuzzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, i always thought about posting about this > (months ago) and now i > will share what i have to say, > > I will not lie, but i have cheated before. But, > the world changes, so as > cheats. I host a superhero server, and sometimes it > takes hours if people > hack, i have been begging for a VAC update, but one > day i figured out that > the cheats are going to evolve just as VAC does. > Then one day i got my steam id banned after an > update ( i am not a smart > cheater ) Well, i got a copy of counter-strike, and > played, and as time went > by, everyone started to notice the increasement of > people hacking, and > hacking, and hacking. > One day i decide to install skins in my cs, and i > get my steam id banned, > i buy a copy of CZ just for the CS:Source and i > play again. I have quit > playing cs. There are too many cheaters. > And that about people getting banned because > they're just good, it > happened to me once and only once and its probably > going to be my only one. > Also, i dont think that 3/4 of the cs population > cheats, i think it is > much less then 1/3 , but what i do know is that it > is increasing. I hope the > people at Valve are reading these posts, we really , > really , need an > update. > A reason in the increasements is the shut down of > WON, i do believe that > at least 3/4 of the cs population in WON did cheat, > but a big reason that > there's more cheaters in 1.6 servers is the 1.5ers > moving on. > Someone here said that he had to go into at > least 5 different servers > for there not to be any blatant cheaters, i think > your exagerating a little > bit there. But then again, your could be not > exagerating if you went into an > insecure server, which i do not see any point into > going in one of those > unleess you have your steam id banned. > Well, that's what i think, but we should push > valve for an update, > stand up for the non-cheating cs-community. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
