I would say there's been a deluge of complaints regarding admins running around doing things like unbind all on clients, or causing them to run exploits of something along those lines. It wouldn't make sense for Valve to spend time coding something without a reason to motivate them into doing this.
Certainly with rate forcing on our servers - we were banning anyone who used any method to get around the rates. _All_ of the players on our servers are on some form of broadband, and thus there is no reason they should not be using at the least rate 20000, and a high cmd/update rate, as well as having interp set to 0.01. Again as I said before though, if users don't want us forcing our rates on them then that's fine, but we don't wish for them to be on our non-profit, self funded (well into the range of 5 digits by myself) servers, which we run with the aim of providing _DECENT_ servers [read: no rating]. Just as it's the users choice not to have our rates shoved on them, it's our choice not to have their rates shoved on us - and they're welcome to play elsewhere if they are dissatisfied with our terms. However with this setting being on by default we really don't have any choice but to remove all rate forcing - which is only motivation to start encouraging the 7554 players seen in the last week to play something else. With Warcraft it wouldn't be difficult to have it check if the client has it turned on and then kick them with a message telling them why. However with this on by default it means everyone gets kicked, and your average user isn't going to figure this out. And yes, some prior notice would have been nice - I had to drop everything to deal with the sudden banning of all the users playing at the time. /rant -Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Robinson Sent: Friday, 17 November 2006 11:42 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] Counter-Strike: Source and Source Engine Update Released - slowhacking begone! > Clients should have the right to choose not to have settings imposed on them > against their will, but this shouldn't be default behaviour - as this > command has only come about due to abuse. Abuse or purpose. On a warcraft mod server you can have your weapon dropped by players of a certain race. Don't fancy getting killed? Well just turn on this CVar and nothing will happen. And without notice too... _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
