Well that is good news, however a month is a very liberal punishment for groups that have been doing this for 3 years.
Sent from my iPhone 4 On Jan 4, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Fletcher Dunn <[email protected]> wrote: > Today the Team Fortress team took action to bring certain server operators > into compliance with our previously announced "honest server policy". > Examples of server modifications that resulted in this policy include: > * Running bots and trying to make them appear that they were human players > * Running bots and circumventing or modifying the usual mechanisms that the > bots are advertised to the server browser > * Running with significant gameplay modifications, such as respawn times, > without having the proper tags on their server designed to alert quickplay > and automated searches about those modifications. > > We have not taken action against individual servers, but rather against an > entire related server group. Hopefully the necessity for this policy is > clear. We took two different actions, depending on the severity of > modification we found: > * Preventing IP addresses from logging a TF gameserver account, which > excludes them from quickplay. > * Delisting IP addresses from the master server (server browser and Quick > Match system) for one month. > > Finally, we would like to say thanks to the server operators who have > continued to run honest servers, and to those who heeded our earlier warning > and subsequently changed their practices. We thank you for that. We hope > that our actions today show that we want to help you compete for player > traffic on the basis of providing a good environment for players. > > Thank you, > The Team Fortress Team > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
