[cod] Why the 0 for GUID ...Was(RE: [cod] Administration Tool)

[John Kennington]

Oh goody!

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Waiting on the pier 'till Charon comes.... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Kuhn [mailto:bryan at infinityward.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:24 PM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [cod] Why the 0 for GUID ...Was(RE: [cod] Administration
Tool)


It's already fixed and will be in the next patch, whenever that is.

Thursday, February 12, 2004, 4:03:36 PM, you wrote:
> The GUID being zero (0) is a known bug in the 1.2 patch.  The problem 
> has been addressed to infinity ward.  In response to an inquiry as to 
> whether or not IW knew about it, V-Man (at www.udpviper.com) said...
>>"Actually, it's been posted several times. Initially, they thought it 
>>was
> limited to cracked copies of the game. But it has been reported by 
> enough
legit    >>users that there's no way that's the case."

> complain to IW; maybe they'll bust out a fix quicker if you do =?

> -tim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [TRT]TazAnimal!{*} [mailto:tazanimal at rifleteam.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:58 PM
> To: cod at icculus.org
> Subject: [cod] Why the 0 for GUID ...Was(RE: [cod] Administration 
> Tool)


> All:
>   What makes it (the GUID) show up as zero?
> I have only seen this a couple of times and each time it was on a guy 
> I was about to ban because he was either cheating, or just had a bad 
> attitude.  So... naturally, I thought I might
> build it into my mod that it checks for a 0 and just kicks them, but I
> thought I had better
> find out why it does that first.... Anyone know?

> [TRT]TazAnimal{*}
> Brett Stinson
> TazAnimal at rifleteam.com <mailto:TazAnimal at rifleteam.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy van Doorn [mailto:jeremy at carcharias.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:51 PM
> To: cod at icculus.org
> Subject: [cod] Administration Tool


> --snip--
> P.s. I know the UDPB-COD Bot does this, but that bot is currently not 
> working for me as it uses GUID's to distinguish between who is an 
> "Admin" and who is not. I and some of my Clanmembers always have GUID 
> 0 (as does half of the other users on my server) and therefor everyone

> with that GUID has admin-rights. So I hope you see why that is 
> currently not an option :(