The problem is, many players are apparently incapable of pressing the F7 button, which led Valve to cripple it in the first place.
I mainly want Valve to prevent MOTDs from being loaded on Quickplay clients so that I can detect if the client joined from Quickplay or not (force the client to load a hidden page, then check if the page was loaded). If there was some way to detect this, then I wouldn't necessarily want this change to be made. As it stands, however, there is no way to determine whether or not a client is able to view an MOTD window. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul <ubyu....@gmail.com> wrote: > This idea would cripple functionality for radio on quickplay servers, just > being one example of something it would further ruin for TF2 if such a > restriction was imposed. I myself can't say I've come across servers like > this, and if there are any then I imagine it's a mere handful (minor > percentage of all QP servers). All players have to do in such instances of > finding a server is just blacklist it and/or report it in-game, case > closed. Alternatively if something is decided to be done in view of one > complaint then disabling window.open would eliminate any new windows that > you might be talking about even if that's the case. As I say, I haven't > found this when going on servers myself. > > > On 16 June 2013 20:19, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com> wrote: > >> As I'm sure most are aware, a little while ago Valve changed the TF2 MOTD >> panel so that it can't be reopened by the server if the client joins via >> Quickplay (or using the matchmaking argument on the connect command). >> However, this just prevents the MOTD panel itself from redisplaying. The >> server can still open pages in the client's MOTD panel in the background. >> >> This means that the server can still spam traffic-to-cash URLs on >> clients, many of which have noise-making Flash embedded or which open popup >> windows using JavaScript. In order to maintain the "sterile bubble" in >> Quickplay, Valve might want to consider preventing servers from opening >> webpages on Quickplay-joining clients entirely, not just preventing the >> panel from being redisplayed. >> >> >> >> Doctor McKay >> http://www.doctormckay.com >> mc...@doctormckay.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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