Yeah, but your analogy falls apart. Cheaters don't get money from cheating, so having to buy a new copy of a game is a deterrent. Stealing accounts can get you into serious trouble, and the more often you have to do it, the more likely you are to get caught.
VAC and sv_pure go a long way to keep the cheaters out. Good communication with other admins can fill the gaps quite well. I honestly don't think there's a better way to handle it, and I've never seen VAC give out a false positive. And if it does, just email Valve. Odds are others have had the issue, and odds are Valve wants to rectify it. > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:39:32 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 Hacker > > The length of the bans does not matter because cheaters are never > banned, only their account is. It's like taking the robbers shotgun > away and put it in jail for a year, five years or forever, it does not > matter, because the robber is still free and will just buy or steal a > new shotgun. Next day he is back in business. > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Leonard L. Church > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Gregory Matherne wrote: > >> The logic does hold, the VAC ban is only 1 year, so if you rob a bank you > >> are sent to jail for some amount of time. Durring that time you are > >> "banned" from all other activities. Sounds like a fairly good analog to me. > > > > Actually, VAC bans never go away. Not sure why you think they are only 1 > > year long. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
