You could always just periodically query this site.
http://www.vacbanned.com
It's not done yet and still has quite a ways to go, but you get the idea.
If a downloadable database were made available from there(when it's done),
in conjunction with a plug-in tailored specifically to query this database,
then you could effectively keep every single cheater/past-cheater off of
your servers. That site will be constantly querying Steam, so a
periodically updated database would seem easy to provide after the initial
round is done.
This is a very interesting idea, but raises some serious questions. In the
end, I guess since they are your servers, you are free to keep out anyone
you please.
-Richard Eid
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Donnie Newlove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> It has come to my understanding that VAC only bans for the engine that
> the cheat ran under when it very clearly states that it bans from all
> VAC secured servers but nothing about being game or engine specific.
>
> So now that steam community show the VAC status and the profiles can
> be viewed as XML, would it not be possible to create a sourcemod or
> metamod plugin that fetch the VAC status of joining players and ban
> them locally if the player is already VAC banned in goldsrc or source?
> Well, yes, of course it would and that would make VAC even more
> effective without being unreliable or unfair and the best thing of
> all, it will get rid of a lot of cheaters. Now I don't have any idea
> how to make plugins since I do not have programmer experience, but if
> anyone thinks this sounds like a good idea then please, feel free to
> do it or discuss it.
>
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