On 12/5/2012 12:50 PM, Kyle Sanderson wrote:
I totally agree that the feature is useful, I use it often. What I totally disagree with is relying on the end user to set the value properly (on the server). The data is already available to the master of where the server is geographically located in relation to the client. The only thing I suggested was to deprecate the convar from servers and don't duplicate already available data. It would solve a lot of problems, and would stop cheaters from abusing this with bogus data (being listed in every region).
If it's removed from servers, then it also needs to be removed from clients -- there's no sense in having clients choosing an option that doesn't actually do anything, or than does something very different than they expect.
In terms of bogus data, I imagine that you're talking about people running multiple servers at the same physical location and claiming them to be in different regions? If that's a serious problem, then it should be possible to limit that abuse at the master server by preventing servers with similar IPs from submitting different regions, and/or requiring that any selected region be on the same continent as the internal GeoIP guess.
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