[bf1942] Tards to ban

[David Harrison]

I don't think I can stress enough how awesome this would be and how
important I think it is for the longevity of Battlefield 1942 - thanks
Andreas for pursuing it.

-- david

---- Original Message ----
From: "Fredriksson, Andreas" <andreas.fredriksson at dice.se>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:47 PM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Tards to ban

> All games that use the GameSpy SDK receive a hashed version of
> the cd key when clients connect, BF does this too. This is in
> turn used for checking for duplicate cd keys. It's a fairly
> small change to add banning and kicking by this id as well
> but it has to work persistently as well so I'm going to have
> to rewrite some console commands for it to work.
>
> It's going in sooner or later in any case.
>
> // Andreas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Getman
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Sent: 5/30/2003 6:19 PM
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Tards to ban
>
> Question is, does the CD Key actually get sent to the server?  My
> guess would be that it is not.  Having it sent may not be a good idea
> either since it could theoretically be captured and used for pirated
> copies of the game.
>
> An alternative way to handle bans might be to base them on MAC
> address. These are unique per ethernet card so it wouldn't matter if
> the tard tried
> to change his ip.  The downside is that MAC addresses can be spoofed
> fairly easily by someone who knows how.
>
>
>
> <quote who="Stewart, John">
>>
>> Aye; here's a me-too. CD-key bans are the only effective method...!
>>
>> johnS