Thing is, it's not really a good idea to base a player on the amount of items that they have in their backpacks. Many players delete/craft/trade their items, therefore leaving their backpack quite minimilistic making it unreasonable and unfair to kick/ban/whatever becuase of that reason.
annarack ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross Bemrose [[email protected]] Sent: 24 June 2011 19:29 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Free-to-Play and hackers... There's a SourceMod plugin named Free2BeKicked that checks whether a player has the TF2 Premium DLC, which is apparently appid 459 if that plugin is to be believed. https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=160049 it requires the SourceMod SteamTools extension: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=129763 On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Ian R. Justman <[email protected]>wrote: > On 06/23/2011 23:25, Netshroud wrote: > >> Or just kick or ban those with a backpack capacity of 50. Premium users >> get >> 300-1000 depending on how many Backpack Expanders they use. >> >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Amer<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I highly doubt valve is going to add this cvar since it defeats the >>> purpose >>> of making tf2 free to play in the first place >>> >>> If you insist on disallowing f2p anyway then I figure you could run a >>> script or something that will query for players backpack on joining and >>> ban >>> or kick those without Proof of Purchase hat in their backpack. But this >>> will >>> only allow old players that paid for their copy of tf2 to join your >>> server. >>> >>> Amer >>> >> > You run into a problem if you base your kick and/or ban entirely on the > contents or even the number of slots of someone's backpack. You cannot do > it to me for example. My profile is private. Sites like tf2items.comcannot > see my backpack, which was a side effect of making my profile > private. As such, nobody can see what is in my backpack. > > Slight digression, long after I had set my backpack private, I had some > random schmuck ask for one of my items; I realized he might have been going > by what tf2items.com had for me. It said that the last time it had > accurate data was in November of 2009. At that point, I asked drunken_f00l > to clear the data he had on the site. I do not like being approached by > random people asking about items in my backpack. > > However, back to the topic at hand, the point of that is that, yes, it may > be handy to base a kick and/or ban on the state of a player's backpack. > What if you cannot even GET TO it? There needs to be some other way. > Letting any server administrator into a player's backpack is not the > answer. Neither is requiring players wear their Proof of Purchase. > > --IJ. > > -- > Ian R. Justman > UNIX hacker. Anime fan. Any questions? > ianj (at) ian-justman.com > > ______________________________**_________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/**mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux<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
