[bf1942] Patch petition

[Killing]

Good idea / question. Most games are now using uniq banid's based of the CDKEY and
they are, as you say, effective against cheats and even act a good deterrent.
A nice enhancement to this is auth server banning. So if required a user / users can be
banned by yourselves. A good example of this would be pirate cdkeys.
I say based as using the key itself would lead to other issues :D

    Steve / K

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stewart, John" <johns at artesyncp.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: 24 April 2003 15:59
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Patch petition



> most of the cheats are due to the CRC checks in 1.31 not being very
> effective.
>
> We're overhauling this for 1.4 and in the strictest mode the
> server will
> only
> allow clients playing with the original files, nothing else.

Andreas - I think one of the most important things that would be nice to go with this is a unique identifier.

In the CS world, we found it was effective to have any cheaters banned permanently, as if they are caught with a cheat once it's
clear they will likely be back the next week with an undetectable cheat. Only by making it clear that any cheats result in a
permanent ban did we effectively reduce the level (somewhat).

Are there any plans for banning by CD key?

thanks!

johnS