Zach, have you ever thought of trying to build up your server community, 'hire' on some regs to act as admins so that you have some type of admin presence during the times that people play? I don't have problems with hackers on my servers - when source first went gold and the hacks started to come about, yeah we had a rash of hacking going on. We had it under control in about a week. Anyone we missed, at least one or two players would make a demo or at the very least get a steamid and sent it our way (we had delayed ban well before Valve/VAC ever did ;-) ). Now? We might see the occasional hack once or twice a month or so. And it's dealt with *swiftly*
You idea has validity, but really, all it sounds like is that you're under-staffed. If you wanna bring in complete strangers and allow then admin permissions to your game instances, more power to ya. But I'd rather hand that out to die-hard regs that I actually get to know first and know that they're in it for the good of the community they play with. Making it sound like doomsday has befallen us, heh... I just don't see it. - K2 http://www.hardfought.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zachary Doherty Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:08 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] CS:S Admins, a call to arms! -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] My plan is to form a league of admins, so to speak. These admins would be given all powers on all servers that agree to host us. This would give the nonHackers the upperhand on many servers, 2 server farms have agreed with me on this. I simply cannot do it all alone. If there are people who are willing to spend time to bring CounterStrike back to life, to breath life into a dying game, I'm sure there will be many servers that will back you once they catch on to our plan. So please, donate some time, save a virtual life or two. Just pitch in, become admin, and make Counter Strikes many servers safer. On 9/29/05, Alex Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or airsoft, pretty similar, but more realistic guns (unfortunately, is > pretty honour based as for as hits go) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Try scenario paintball. Not much chance for cheating since there are > >referees everywhere. > >And it is so much more realistic when your opponents CAN shoot back! > >;-) > > > >And it will force you to stay in shape too. > > > >I would say it is about equal in expense to a high quality game PC, > >paying for dedicated hosts, etc. > > > > > > > >>-------- Original Message -------- > >>Subject: [hlds] CS:S Admins, a call to arms! > >>From: Zachary Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Date: Thu, September 29, 2005 1:50 pm > >> > >>The most played online mod, EVER. And, I think its safe to say that > >>its > also > >>the most hacked game, EVER. > >>It's now the time to save this game from the dark pit of which it > >>has > fallen > >>into. Valve made Half-Life and placed trust in individuals to > >>control servers. Well, it seems that individuals > are > >>not enough. This is a call to arms for all CS:S Admins and Hosts, > >>and rCons. It was our job to protect the > servers, > >>and we clearly have not been > >>doing our job. Now, even hacker-friendly servers exist! This is the > >>call > for > >>all of the CS:S and CS Admins to > >>rally to fight off this menace! I know this may seem a little off > >>topic > for > >>this list, but hey! We are the hosts, admins, and the players. It's > >>time for us to rise up and fight off the pestilence that has > >>manifested within our ranks. > >> > >> > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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 > -- Sincerely, Zachary Doherty -- _______________________________________________ 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
