Thyth, is it possible to design a permanent anti-asshole solution for those hosting Tribes 2 servers?
Sure. I think the problem will be significantly less significant if response from multiple servers is coordinated. Back when people were arguing over the implementation of the new authentication system, I discussed the possibility of a web-of-trust between servers for banning purposes.
Server admins would have the option of "trusting" the bans from another server, and propagating them to their own. At the moment I'm more concerned about native code bug fixes, anti-cheat, and the browser/tmail systems, but there is nothing stopping a sufficiently technical group of people from building a web-of-trust ban system.
Depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want to effectively deal with problem players, emailing around a ban list is slow and stupid. If you want to make an administrative nightmare for server admins, you'd do a pretty good job.
An automated system is less effort, and the reaction time would be almost instant, so the problem players would get very little effective use from their accounts.
Depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want to effectively deal with problem players, emailing around a ban list is slow and stupid. If you want to make an administrative nightmare for server admins, you'd do a pretty good job.
An automated system is less effort, and the reaction time would be almost instant, so the problem players would get very little effective use from their accounts.
You'd need to be careful with a full on automated system. I've seen some ban happy admins who do it because they can't admit their faults and/or have issues of their own that bleed over into the game. If Admin A blows their stack for no reason and bans you, something needs to be in place to prevent every server with the system from automatically getting the ban streamed to them.
Depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want to effectively deal with problem players, emailing around a ban list is slow and stupid. If you want to make an administrative nightmare for server admins, you'd do a pretty good job.
An automated system is less effort, and the reaction time would be almost instant, so the problem players would get very little effective use from their accounts.
You'd need to be careful with a full on automated system. I've seen some ban happy admins who do it because they can't admit their faults and/or have issues of their own that bleed over into the game. If Admin A blows their stack for no reason and bans you, something needs to be in place to prevent every server with the system from automatically getting the ban streamed to them.
That's kind of the point behind the "web of trust" mentioned earlier. You might trust Bob, and he might trust you, but you might not trust Charlie even though Charlie trusts you and Bob, and Bob might trust Charlie.
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Server admins would have the option of "trusting" the bans from another server, and propagating them to their own. At the moment I'm more concerned about native code bug fixes, anti-cheat, and the browser/tmail systems, but there is nothing stopping a sufficiently technical group of people from building a web-of-trust ban system.
An automated system is less effort, and the reaction time would be almost instant, so the problem players would get very little effective use from their accounts.
You'd need to be careful with a full on automated system. I've seen some ban happy admins who do it because they can't admit their faults and/or have issues of their own that bleed over into the game. If Admin A blows their stack for no reason and bans you, something needs to be in place to prevent every server with the system from automatically getting the ban streamed to them.
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