The amount of bans we have been looking at will get to the stage of 10,000 PLUS records at the rate these STEAM_ID cheats keep joining our servers.
Do the maths on 30 servers by 24 hours, within a week if you are banning 1 hack per hour (Its worse than this so, I am understating the figure by a lot here) you will have 5040 STEAM_ID's banned! The real answer is for Valve to fix VAC and their STEAM_ID system and release VAC updates once a week! Doing that doesn't solve the problem entirely, but the biggest deterent to cheating is knowing that you could be caught at anytime and that the game creator is actively finding cheats and new methods to detect them. To be honest I don't think anybody who cheats gives a shit anymore whether a server is VAC enabled or not. It doesn't do a damn thing! On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:55:07 -0700, Kevin Gerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, bans DO take space... > > However, why don't they add a feature such as -ban_cache 1024 for 1MB of ban > space and so on. (I don't know what the current actual 'space' is allowed.) > > Anyhow, what of those %n users? Do you REALLY have the time to let them back > on your server at whatever time every week/month to restart your server > endlessly? That'll ALSO make your server empty if it becomes a lamer > playground. > > But, think of this... > > 1MB of bans... on a 1GB to 2GB mem server... Is -NOTHING-. Fine, there is > some processing power that has to be done... However, that is only on > connect(); of the users. Not after. So, fine, there may be a slight spike > when a user connects. So? (It'd be VERY minor unless if your ban list was > outrageous). Heck, how about if the server just reads the bans.cfg ON every > connect();? Fine, it'd have to do a VERY slow method data reading... > However, it'd allow connects to be faster. Maybe... Have them as: > bans.(1-9).cfg being the first digit that the SteamID starts with to help > reduce some speed issues. > > > > ~ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sebastian nielsen > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [hlds] Number of allowed bans too small? > > Bans is data too. They take space like other files. Ram memory on the > computer is requiring to have the game running , not banning people. > > HL-servers aren't for banning people all the time. They are used to have an > central connection point for gamers to play to each other. > Do an ban clean each month and then your files will kept in a good size... > This is my trick.... I have a software that runs on thje last day in a month > , this deletes the ban file and reloads the CFG:s. > > You know , to store steam IDs and names of people you dont want in your > server , this must be stored as 1:s and 0:s like other gaming data , and > they take space too. All text images and whatever takes space. Save the > resources , dont ban like an automated process that bans 1000 people per > second.... Be nice to players.... Theres a limited number of players. If you > ban all players your server will be empty. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
