And this is yet another reason why community servers are superior. This problem was fixed 5 years ago with 3rd party plugins.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Nomaan Ahmad <n0man....@gmail.com> wrote: > Sometimes, group of players want to play with each other only and they > would greedily start a votekick/ban against the newcomer, the only way is > to leave the server to avoid punishments. So I think banning isn't really > the solution here. > > I think the real issue was outlined by Nate. The votekick function > probably uses player userids and so by rejoining the server they wouldn't > get kicked even if the vote passed. Maybe it's possible to fix using > sourcemod plugin. > > On 22 September 2015 at 01:08, Spencer 'Voogru' MacDonald < > voo...@voogru.com> wrote: > >> I’m not sure why the vote kick doesn’t just save the steam id when the >> vote is started. >> >> Then it doesn’t matter if they leave beforehand, in fact, if they leave >> prior to the vote finishing, cancel the vote and default ban them for 12 >> hours. >> >> >> >> *From:* hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto: >> hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *Nathaniel Theis >> *Sent:* Monday, September 21, 2015 6:55 PM >> *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> *Subject:* Re: [hlds] [TF2] Players disconnecting before votekicked? >> >> >> >> The actual bug is a race condition. A votekick is a kick (a forced >> disconnect, basically, by player ID), and a ban (prevents joining, by >> SteamID). >> >> >> >> If a player should disconnect while a vote is in progress, the kick won't >> go through (their player ID will change as they reconnect), but the ban >> will (since their SteamID never changes.) However, bans are checked early >> in the connection process. So, if the player reconnects before the vote >> passes, the ban won't prevent them from joining (because it's not applied >> yet when they join!), and they bypassed the kick because their player ID is >> different. >> >> >> >> The solution to this is to check all connected players' SteamIDs when a >> ban is added, and kick matching players. Probably not overly difficult to >> do with SM. There are also loads of third-party votekick and ban management >> systems, that aren't vulnerable to this. >> >> >> >> One trick: If somebody should bypass a votekick, when they come back, >> they're sort of in a state of limbo. If they should be kicked or >> disconnect, they can't rejoin (because the ban is now in effect); thus, >> kicking them a second time will get them off for good. >> >> >> >> - Nate >> >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Miika <miikalaak...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> We recently started using Valve’s own votekick feature on few of our TF2 >> servers. It seems you can prevent yourself from getting votekick banned by >> disconnecting just before the vote goes through. Seen a lot of players do >> this recently and it’s really an annoying problem. >> >> >> >> Is there any way to prevent this or is there a SourceMod alternative that >> prevents this? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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