[quake3] GUID & game statistics purpose

[Bruce Kingsbury]

On 20/03/2008, EscapedTurkey <escapedturkey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What will prevent the client from simply resetting or clearing his/her
> key and starting over? Is the GUID based on the client's hardware somehow?


If he's an ordinary player; nothing.

If he's an admin, he won't be an admin any more.

This isn't intended to enforce bans. It's intended to prevent non-admins
from finding out and admin's GUID and spoofing it.
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