This is one more reason for Valve to increase their efforts on updating VAC! For me, anticheat is definitley a criteria for bying a multiplayer game or not buying it.
Punkbuster is a good one, serveradmins can do a lot by themselfs, beside screenshoting the clients they can set the values for GFX details and so on, the client is able to play with on a server etc.pp. VAC does nothing for server admins, I repeat: nothing! (just some work while updating servers and VAC doesn't want to start again ^^) [email protected] schrieb am 17.02.06 10:59:33: > > > This have been tried over and over again and always resulting in a dead > project. > > Look at PB. They started out as a free anticheat. They got greedy and > wanted to make money at their product. After PB there where quite a > number of anticheat systems trying to fill PB's place. CSGuard and CD was > born in this area. I think there where about 10 different options of > anticheat software, which rendered that they never got used and one after > the other they all died. HLGuard and CD are those that survived. Then came > VAC and later VAC2. > > Sooner or later a free AC will either die or they try to go commersial. > Its how programmers works. They want to get payed for the time they spend > programming. This is also the reason OpenSource projects are doomed. I > believe the OpenSource era is soon dead. Some larger projects will > survive, but those are not made in a real non-profit way. These will be > supported by larger companies and the developers will get paid. > > /Bjorn > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > We should convince some programmers with (re-)writing a "real" anticheat. > > We need a mixture of CD, HLGuard and SSClient/Server... > > > > The people around HLGuard may add an additional client to HLGuard as an > > option, > > which is able to scan the processes on clients... I would spend a public > > server > > for experimental workouts ;) I would spend some webspace for a forum or > > something else... > > (but I will never have the money for paying a programmer, but Valve has, > > and they do nearly nothing) > > > > [email protected] schrieb am 17.02.06 10:15:25: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, grammaton782 wrote: > > > > > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > -- > > > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > > > > hi folks > > > > > > > > first of all, this mailing list is NOT the place 2 post about vac2, > > > > except matters of not runing or starting (bugs) vac2 or beta developing > > > > under dedicated linux servers, not for starting a diskussion about > > > > efficiency of this ac tool > > > > > > Why is this not a good place to discuss VAC2? I think its as good as > > > anywhere else. At least it is HL related. And isnt this list for > > > administrators running a HL server and isnt VAC a part of it? > > > > > > In my book this list should be able to hold any discussion that are > > > related to running a server. And it should be a place where administrators > > > can meet and have a discussion. > > > > > > /Bjorn > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
