Ahh, perhaps another good addition to this version would be tieing down WONID's to clients. How you could do this, I don't know. Hrmm, how do people (cheaters) change WONID's at the moment? Surely its not by guessing a new (valid) code alone is it?
Value adding the WONID to make it "expensive" to give up (as other posters have mentioned) is a good idea. Perhaps you can let game servers only allow people in above a certain "WONID rank" (or within a band). Then you could exclude new users/cheaters reusing id's.... Nicolai Haehnle wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. Januar 2002 14:43 schrieben Sie: > >>>You don't need to detect a cheat every time, only once and they are gone >>> >>>:) This is where we have the advantage. >>> >>You assume that someone only has 1 or 2 WONids. That's not true for many >>cheaters, they have hundreds of WONids... >> >>http://www.bowboard.f2s.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=3c36fdcf2c26ffff;act=ST >>; f=1;t=278 >> >>You can also ban by IP address, but this will only be effective on static >>IP cable modems and static IP xDSL connections. Many cheaters will have >>dynamic IP broadband connections or dynamic 56K dial-up connections. You >>may have to ban the same cheater hundreds of times to keep them off of the >>server. >> > > Banning by IP is definitely not an option, because cheater detection requires > you to be able to ban a cheater "forever". WON IDs are also a bad idea > because of what you mentioned. Apart from that you risk banning innocent > people by both those methods. > > Anyway, another possible to the solution of the banning problem is to use a > third-party authentication server based on e-mail addresses. Which may of > course be more hassle for the users than it's worth because cheaters can just > register new email-addresses (just like they can just create a new HL key > using a key generator). > > However, when you couple this authentication with a global ranking scheme, it > may be worth it as a community effort. The notorious cheaters will always > have to recreate their accounts, so that they will never be able to reach the > top of the global ranking ladder. > > cu, > Prefect > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > -- Alfred Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
