STA - DynoSauR

Ok, I updated my profile. I wanted to make sure that you did share ban information with PsB though. I personally know of more RTCW servers that stream to PsB than PBBans and if someone did get caught on my server I'd want to be sure that they were going to be added to the PsB Master Ban Index (Master Ban Index (MBI)) as well. The anti-cheat community should share the list of people that it catches freely. I recently resigned as a TWL admin because of the way cheaters were being handled by the current RTCW admins. The last straw was when a player from a top OSP team was suspended and then unsuspended because he said the cheater was his nephew living in the same house with him using his same internet connection and also one admin there said that he knew the guy and used to play RTCW with him and knew he didn't hack. That personally doesn't cut it for me and the bias over that incident stunk. After I resigned over this the TWL admins over RTCW did change or someone higher up changed their mind and resuspend the player for one year. I also did have the League and Ladder access at PsB which also had a GUID Detective which did help to cross reference the GUID's a player used in a variety of games. I don't know if PBBans has something similar or not but, I would hope there would be some secured page where admins can rummage through that stuff and try to catch and re-catch hackers. Especially ones who want to compete. I don't know exactly how many hackers I caught while at TWL but, I'm probably responsible for 10-30 getting suspended from TWL in RTCW and other games as well since I'd sometimes find players who hacked RTCW but, only played competitively in other games. I'd like to keep on trying to catch all the hackers I could and turning them in regardless of whether I'm a TWL admin anymore. So that's what I'm about.

I just got up a public RTCW OSP server tonight and need to get it streaming. Is pbbans the same as punksbusted in that department or do you guys have a different file of known hack files than PsB? I have really only looked around the admin section of punksbusted in the past and was curious if you share the same master ban list with PsB or what you had to offer any differently from PsB? So essentially I was wanting to know if thee were some added benefits of streaming with pbbans over punksbusted? Thanks much.

Thanks Fozzer, I'm sorry I didn't notice when this thread was started but, I had some strong feelings about it after learning some details about sandmod. I recently stepped down as a TWL admin and while doing that it struck me how many people were still playing 1.0 because of sandmod. If it weren't for sandmod people would have already updated so it's just keeping them hung in the past. The gaming leagues need all the players/teams for RTCW and I hear they do have sandmod competitions and clans etc. I find this pretty ridiculous considering there is no cheat detection for any of that crap. I know pb doesn't catch everything but, in sandmod any hack ever created will likely work just fine there. Now if we could just get all the hackers to play sandmod and the legitimate players to play 1.4 we'd have it made.

Why don't you make your mod for 1.4 like all the other mod creators out there and if your mod can compete against those other mods then great. All you are doing right now is fragmenting the already shrinking RTCW community and keeping the noobs who don't know anything about updating their game in the dark. At the same time that you are keeping the newcomers to RTCW in the dark you are also letting them be hacked unmercifully and that's likely why you showed up here. At least you can't ban me from this place like you did your sandmod forums where I said no more than I have said right here. Set the noobies free and make your mod for 1.4. Dyno

I joined the sandmod forums a while back after I first got curious about seeing those sandmod servers and all that sandman has done is created a safe haven for the hackers. I told him so and I got banned from his forums. If he thinks his mod can be competitive with shrub and bani then I told him to go ahead and write his mod for 1.4. Right now it's just further splintering the rtcw community. Most of those people playing sandmod don't know any better or that there even are updates to RTCW that they should have installed years ago. I used to go on sandmod servers and just ask people why they hadn't updated their rtcw and they were like "what updates" and where to download them. I wish it had been made so that all servers had to be updated. Oh well, I just gave up on those people but, I do wish they'd get together with the rest of us and stop hiding back in 1.0. PS. I do wish that we had the tools to scan a person's game directory. To be able to see what they actually have in there. That'd be the easiest way to catch hackers. Right now with MD5 we are just fishing to a file name that we might think they have. If we had the option to see what files they actually have then we'd bust a lot more hackers. I think CS has had this form of cheat protection and I sure wish we did. Dyno