This simply shows how bad the idea of acheivements is. It just provides another avanue to cheat.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:19 PM, msleeper <[email protected]> wrote: > This plugin is not designed to be used in a normal 24/7 2fort server or > any "normal" server at all. It is designed to be used as a honeypot - a > server that looks like a normal achievement grinding server. My server > is running achievement_scout, and the only reason to join a server > running that map is to farm achievements. > > If you didn't have the intention of cheating and farming achievements, > you wouldn't be there in the first place. > > > Sent from my name is Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC > > > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:14 -0500, MONDO wrote: > > What you're saying is you'll ban anyone who gets an achievement. So many > of > > the achievements are obtained by simply paying the game.. right? I have > a > > better solution... just turn your server off! Problem fixed! I > understand > > about farming, but banning anyone who gets an achievement is about the > most > > foolish thing I've heard. It saddens me that you used your talent at > > scripting to write such silliness. > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Blood Letter < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > Why farm when you can just use the unlocker? > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:01:52 +0100 > > > > From: [email protected] > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Achievement Farmer Honeypot > > > > > > > > Great, I gonna install that on my 24/7 achievement farming server... > Or > > > > wait... No, I won't. > > > > Have fun with an empty server. > > > > > > > > Stuff like this encourages me to open up another farming server... > > > > > > > > msleeper schrieb: > > > > > I have written a honeypot plugin for SourceMod that will autoban > anyone > > > > > who earns an achievement in the server. If there is any other > admins > > > out > > > > > there who think that complacency towards farming needs to end, this > is > > > > > step one. > > > > > > > > > > I have been running this since the moment the Scout update came out > > > last > > > > > night and, at time of writing this, 1890 farmers have been caught > and > > > > > stopped. > > > > > > > > > > The plugin is here: > > > http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=86402 > > > > > My publicly available list of farmers is here: > > > > > http://www.msleeper.com/tf2-achievement-farmers.html > > > > > > > > > > I'm really not interested in mucking up the list with personal > opinions > > > > > about whether or not farming is right, or honeypotting farmers is > > > wrong, > > > > > but if you want to discuss you can always join IRC. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my honeypot > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > 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 > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. > > > > http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Access_022009 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
