I too vote for server admin making the choices. Please don't hard code restrictions like this, let me decide how I want to limit it. The other day I was in my server with a few of the regulars, and they were trying to decide on a clan name. They were changing their names several times a minute and we were voting/commenting on the changes. This may not be the norm, but the more important point is that this should be my choice, not Valves choice.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Napier, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:45 PM Subject: RE: [hlds] Name change exploit > Put me down on the side of serveradmin flexability. > Option to disable the rename ability completely during your server connection\map. > namechangewhileconnected (0\1 default 1) > > Option to limit # of times perplayer per map > namechangeperplayer (# - default 3) > > Option to limit overall rate of name changes globally > namechangetickrate (seconds - default 60) > namechangeratelimit # (default 6) > > Something to this effect would allow server admins greater flexability then just some Valve derived, hard coded limit. though you could alway tack on an internal limited of say something like 10 a second to prevent dos's. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alfred Reynolds > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [hlds] Name change exploit > > > We will look at increasing the timeout interval, I can't tell you the > exact implementation right now however (we are bouncing around a couple > of ideas). > > - Alfred > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mason > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [hlds] Name change exploit > > Alfred, please put my vote in with for a threshold of 1x per map or 1x > every 5-10 minutes or more. Perhaps a default value of 1x per map, with > config entry to modify if desired. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHiLLZ > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [hlds] Name change exploit > > I would say once per minute is plenty. If Valve could help us with that, > it would be extremely useful. > > - CHiLLZ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [hlds] Name change exploit > > It's CS:S that is being referred to. One of the newly released hacks out > now is a speedhack that will also grab every username on the server, and > change that players name to a slight variation of each one, once a > second. > > Something like a cvar that admins can set or something hard-coded to > where either 1) the name-change allowed every X seconds is increased > significantly or 2) only X amount of name changes allowed per round or > (more ideally) per map would be nice. > > And here's hoping that VAC2 comes out soon - the hacks and cheats have > become very bad recently, and are now widespread. > > - K2 > http://www.hardfought.org > > > "Alfred Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What mod are you talking about? Counter-Strike: Source has rate > > limiting on name changes (once per second), we could change that > threshold. > > > > - Alfred > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew > > Armstrong > > Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 6:12 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [hlds] Name change exploit > > > > Can Valve do something about the name change exploit, where a player > > can change their name extreamly fast (ie, no flood > > protection/throttling) in a server and prevent them from being easily > > kicked (as their name changes so fast, on a full server, its very hard > > > to match up their steam ID to their name - since its changed by the > > time I read the status output!). > > > > Can we have a throttle of 1 name change per round as usual or 1 name > > change while in observer per reconnect etc > > > > ATTN VALVE: response please > > > > Thanks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please > > visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
