I suspect this feature is more useful for any loosely adminstrated servers (Offical Valve servers), so in that regard it's good.
For us who activly admins the servers though, it seems pointless, or at best... a poor substition for a proper ban system. And a bit dangerous to add, I seen users dislike each other over the most petty reasons in our community leading to blocks, yet not causing any trouble on the servers themselves to deserve to be blocked/banned. Although I agree that chat and voice from blocked users should be automatically muted ingame, although that's a feature that should be added clientside. ;) On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Rich Kaethler <r...@valvesoftware.com>wrote: > We have added support for Steam community blocking in the dedicated > server. This functionality is in testing and is controlled by convar ( off > by default ). If the convar is enabled, every new player at connect time ( > once authenticated ) will be tested against the block list of every player > already authenticated on the server. If any of the players on the server > have blocked this player, the dedicated server is notified, and that new > player may be kicked from the server depending on the convar settings.**** > > It is assumed that the most popular setting will take advantage of steam > groups. To do this, use the new “sv_steamgroup” convar to set the group > that your server belongs to, and set “sv_steamblockingcheck” to 2. With > this setting only members of the group that “owns” the server may deny > other players access to the server. If a group has been selected and > “sv_steamblockingcheck” is set to 1, the console text will distinguish a > new player that is blocked by a clan member vs a non-clan member.**** > > ** ** > > Here are the details of the options:**** > > ** ** > > sv_steamblockingcheck**** > > 1 = print results to console only**** > > 2 = kick the new player from the server if anyone already on the server > who is a member of the associated clan has blocked the new player**** > > 3 = kick the new player from the server if anyone already on the server > has blocked the new player**** > > 4 = kick the new player from the server if anyone already on the server > has blocked the new player or the new player has blocked any existing > player on the server**** > > ** ** > > sv_steamgroup**** > > Set this convar to the group ID of the group that this server belongs to. > You can find your group’s ID on the admin profile page in the steam > community.**** > > ** ** > > Please send feedback about blocking in dedicated servers directly to me.** > ** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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