The obvious problem with this is that skilled players are accused of h4x all the
time. My former roommate, for instance, was constantly banned from servers,
even from some otherwise reputable servers... I would not participate in an
open/general blacklist for this reason.
Eric (the Deacon remix)
http://www.firekite.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Gurney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 4:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
>
>
