this system is something that works in theory but is open to incredible
abuse. the bottom line is, how do you categorically KNOW that someone is
cheating? sure, wallhackers who shoot through walls are easy to spot. but
what about wallhackers that just use the information to be more aware? and
all it takes is one bad admin and someone might get banned from every server
without cause.
the only way something like this would work is if all the admins were in a
trusted domain. i wouldn't want to join this network knowing some of the
peeps on this list, for example...
there's a small number of admins i really trust and those are the ones i'd
like to share my bans with.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mirco Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Punkbuster is dead?
>
> yeah
> I did a project like that 1 year ago already.
> its called HLACS
> Half-Life AntiCheat System
> it works by itself... Admins enter bans and all servers are getting after
> the 15 min the new version
> I made a lil linux script and a Win32 client :)
> but its at the moment down... btw it has already many bans...
>
> Mirco Bauer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Gurney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Punkbuster is dead?
>
>
> >
> > Yep, this is the sort of thing I was thinking of.. It would be trivial
to
> > output from a php file in the format of the banned.cfg file, and then
all
> > you'd need to do would be to set up a cron job that does:
> >
> > wget http://whaterver/banned.php > banned.txt
> >
> > every 10 minutes or so..
> >
> > I really think this is the only way to go. Imagine if *every* server did
> > this? Would people risk cheating if they knew it meant they'd get banned
> > >from every server out there? This also lessens the load on individual
> admins
> > to police their servers. If hundreds of people are out there submitting
> ids
> > of cheaters, you distribute the load much better.
> >
> > For this to work though, it would need to be very very widespread. Would
> be
> > nice if Valve could include a readme about it in the server archives on
> the
> > next release if we can get something set up?
> >
> >
> >
> > > http://guest:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ban/
> > > Simon garner posted this a while ago. Maybe with his guidance/help we
> > could
> > > get something like this going in the states and other countries. It
uses
> > > mysql and php.
> >
> >
>
>
