Brian touched on a couple of very good points. It's essential that you take it upon yourself to stay current on anti-cheat tools. Something else I've found helpful is to educate myself on what cheats are out there and what their capabilities are. Knowing what to look for is important. The meat of this post is to address admins, though, for which Brian made a couple of good points; actually, the second quote is a corollary of the first. Admins are central in keeping the number of cheaters and exploiters at a minimum.
There are three aspects to this: 1) The first, and possibly the most important, is an admin staff that is skilled in detecting cheaters and differentiating between very high caliber players and cheaters. 2) The second is to deal with cheaters quickly. Cheaters will always exist, and every public server will see a few from time to time, no matter how well admin'd. When this happens, it's crucial to have an admin either in-game or immediately available (such as in IRC). 3) Finally, the third partially flows from the first two. Over a period of time, good servers will build up a base of regulars, some of whom will be excellent candidates for admin. Also, servers develop reputations. Our server caters to very high caliber players, but is a pub, not a clan server. We have an excellent reputation as having a strong admin presence with extremely level-headed and skilled admins, something we pride ourselves upon. While it's true that many hackers skip around, servers do develop the opposite reputation, and they become targets and frequent hangouts for hackers. I'm not going to argue about 1.6, but in Source, if you can build up a good reputation and a strong admin staff, the level of hackers should be very low. The vast majority of our bans result from TKers or racists. -----Original Message----- From: Brian M Frain (eternal) Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] cs:s is full of cheaters There are a myriad of responses we could throw at you 2: is it possible there are not as many cheaters as you think? -----Original Message----- From: Brian M Frain (eternal) Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:37 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] cs:s is full of cheaters One of the biggest problems I ran into as a lead admin for a gaming company was the admins themselves. Any time a player came in showing any amount of exceptional skill it was decided he must be cheating. -Grant. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
