colin

thats all good if they have a static ip address, we used to ban ip's too until other people with the same isp used to come in asking why they are banned, banning the ip address of someone that gets a new one when they reconnect to the net is pointless also we need an outside program that will let us make hardware bans, this can be dodged but it is a lot harder to dodge than deleting one file or reconnecting to the internet

im not a part of pbbans.com but i can tell you that guy is definately cheating, view the demo with shownormals on and you can see him looking at players through the walls just think yourself lucky you can only find one cheater on a server, if we dont get 10 a night its a good night, its starting to become ridiculous the amount of people cheating on our servers and all we can do to combat this is give them a ban that lasts for all of 30 seconds, if i saw this guy playing on one of the servers im an admin to id either let him go or just ref kick him, banning people is pointless all it is doing is creating a never ending list of ip addresses if you have some sort of guid/alias/ip address tracker which we do all you can do is check if he has a static ip address, if he does ban that

poo, no offense i know you guys put a lot of work into this but arent you finding it pointless creating a neverending list of cheats, most of which are probably the same person with different GUID's, i used to add in GUIDS to ban on our servers but gave up when i realised it takes me longer to ban them then it takes them (cheats) to evade that ban ive heard of a program for mohaa that lets you create your own HW ban for your specific server, does anyone know if there are plans for anything like this in ET? do people from punkbuster read these forums at all and see that creating neverending lists of GUID's that will probably never be used again is getting us nowhere and we need a different type of action to curb cheating in ET anyway thats a message from a disgruntled ET server admin, hope it makes sense and hope someone with some sort of know how reads it and can actually do something to help us be able to ban cheats in ET

hi, im an admin on a couple of australian servers, i dont have ftp access to the servers but do have an rcon password, these servers are for a major australian isp and wont give ftp access to anyone that isnt employed by them anyway i was wondering how signing up to pbbans.com could help us rid cheaters from the server i understand you would like to see the pb.logs, but will these players caught cheating recieve a hardware ban or would they just go on your master ban list? i used to read the pb.logs daily but got sick of it as it was taking me too long to ban these players and only taking them 30 seconds to evade that ban, when we used to have 2 servers running there would be about 5 a day caught by pb (usually the same person looking for a cheat that worked) now we have 7 servers and i havent seen the pb logs and dont really want to considering they are full 18 hours out of 24 and would probably catch a hell of a lot more than when we had 2 servers so basically im asking if we had our pb.logs streamed to you would players get hardware banned?