If Valve wanted to stop achievement farming servers, they would have set up a server blacklist a long, long time ago. Besides, there are people who just don't have the time (some people actually have a life and work!) to spend killing millions of people to unlock an achievement. By the time that they do, the game will most likely be replaced with the next installment. Also, unlocks are a crock of crap to new players as they will get pissed off and leave by older, younger players having more powerful guns while they have shit guns. If achievement farming on farming servers keeps them playing back in my or someone else's server, I'm all for it.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:11 PM, msleeper <mslee...@cyberwurx.com> wrote: > I have a really strong feeling that Valve has found a way to catch > people who use that too, now that everything is using the Steam Cloud. > The fact that they caught people who used the weapon glitch, and that > they are "awaiting the ways we will disappoint them" give me hope that > they finally have. > > http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2262 > > Maybe honest players will finally prevail. > > > > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 13:04 -0800, Blood Letter wrote: > > Why farm when you can just use the unlocker? > > > > > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:01:52 +0100 > > > From: bengt.rosenber...@gmx.de > > > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > > > 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
