Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked?

2015-09-21 Thread Spencer 'Voogru' MacDonald
[mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nathaniel Theis Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 6:55 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked? The actual bug is a race condition. A votekick is a kick (a forced

Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked?

2015-09-21 Thread Nathaniel Theis
The actual bug is a race condition. A votekick is a kick (a forced disconnect, basically, by player ID), and a ban (prevents joining, by SteamID). If a player should disconnect while a vote is in progress, the kick won't go through (their player ID will change as they reconnect), but the ban will

Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked?

2015-09-21 Thread Nomaan Ahmad
lvesoftware.com [mailto: > hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *Nathaniel Theis > *Sent:* Monday, September 21, 2015 6:55 PM > *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > *Subject:* Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked? > > > > The actual bug is a

Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked?

2015-09-21 Thread Robert Paulson
esoftware.com [mailto: >> hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *Nathaniel Theis >> *Sent:* Monday, September 21, 2015 6:55 PM >> *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> *Subject:* Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked? >> >

Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked?

2015-09-21 Thread Matthias "InstantMuffin" Kollek
...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *Nathaniel Theis *Sent:* Monday, September 21, 2015 6:55 PM *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list *Subject:* Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked? The actual bug is a race condition. A votekick is a kick (a forced disconnect

[hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked?

2015-09-21 Thread Miika
We recently started using Valve’s own votekick feature on few of our TF2 servers. It seems you can prevent yourself from getting votekick banned by disconnecting just before the vote goes through. Seen a lot of players do this recently and it’s really an annoying problem. Is there any way to