[bf1942] any way to ban players by CD KEY?

[Christopher Kunz]

Scratch Monkey wrote:
> --On Friday, January 10, 2003 2:29 PM -0500 "Ryan C. Gordon"
> <icculus at clutteredmind.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I doubt most players are using dial-up for bf1942, actually.
> 
> 
> Just checked my Tribes 2 tribe and about 25% of over 50 members are on a
> modem. These are people who buy bleeding edge games, mostly adults, so
> they're not at the mercy of what connectivity a parent is willing to buy.
> 
> 

Well, our ip stats here show fairly well that the overwhelming majority 
of, say, a figure between 90 and 95 per cent of all players on our game 
servers use dial-up connections.

Having tcpdump or iptraf log all src and dest ips is pretty convincing.
Of course, that's propably a local fact because in most of mainland 
Europe, except perhaps scandinavia, broadband access is still not cheap 
enough for the mass market. And since the biggest ISP and DSL dealer 
here in Germany, T-Online, is using ppp over ethernet and disconnecting 
its clients once per 24 hours, you can consider even those DSL customers 
as "dial-up".

--ck

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