Something this game needs

Einherjar · Post by **Einherjar** » 31-07-2003 17:34

I was hoping that Deathball wouldn't need something like this, but I just got out of a server and it seems unfortunately I was wrong. There needs to be a way people on a team can vote to kick (or maybe even Ban) players on their team for Intentional self-goaling. I was just in a server where a player would grab the ball and shoot it into our goal, and there was no way to block him. I am assuming there is some penalty eventually because he reconnected after doing it twice to reset his score. Altho since I've only seen one player do this, maybe there is a way admins could just get together and ban him individually, his nick was "The_Dew_man" and he didn't hold back in saying he was trying to ruin the game. Thanks for any assistance anyone here can provide. Other than that, props to the developers, excellent game guys.

fro · Post by **fro** » 31-07-2003 17:54

which server was it on?

get in contact with the admin and (hopefully) some hot hot hot ban action will take place

Post by **DavidM** » 31-07-2003 18:23

there is an owngoal ban function
a server setting
by default you get banned when you score -2 goals

Robotojon · Post by **Robotojon** » 31-07-2003 18:55

thats not what he was asking, try reading his post again Dave

Diab · Post by **Diab** » 31-07-2003 20:38

its all good and well david but i have been in a few games where he would own score, then quickly reconnect (bnded key?) and continue avoiding the ban, and he must have had a good pc as he would reconnect within the score time.

Harold|ZBN · Post by **Harold|ZBN** » 31-07-2003 22:00

hmm the map vote mut can kick ppl but same problem as with any vote u ussualy cant convice 75% or whatever percentage is needed to kick vote. and once i had a guy who changed his name everytime aswell and reconnected so not really possible. only thing that works is getting a server admin to kickban him. no other way really

MeSSiaH{FCU} · Post by **MeSSiaH{FCU}** » 31-07-2003 22:13

And even then...server crash ----> every1 joins again

It's funny tho that when u kick some1 with mapvote, he tries to enter and u can he gets kicked again and some message shows he cant enter ^_^

And then we all laugh at the angry little panicking dude when that comes up 20 times in 3 minutes ^^;

fs|Pele · Post by **fs|Pele** » 31-07-2003 23:56

idd i still remember when fizzy was playing with his spammcheat (he was just showing us :p) and he got kicked

and then couldnt enter again lmao

1.6 where long but decent times

Post by **DavidM** » 01-08-2003 09:16

ah, read again

we will have a function that caches your stats, so when you reconnect you keep them
so you also keep the goal ratio

NightSpirit|ZBN · Post by **NightSpirit|ZBN** » 01-08-2003 09:25

Caching stats sounds good, but I've also been on a server where someone scored an own goal and then swapped teams and scored an own goal there

Pretty sure that should be caught by the "-2" rule but maybe the public server in question didn't have it turned on?

We need to convince public server admins to have these settings turned on. Also they should all have the force balance teams option turned on to stop lame people in a 4-4 match changing teams if they are losing

Robotojon · Post by **Robotojon** » 01-08-2003 12:44

Good idea Dave, as long as you do it by ID (cdkey generated one) rather than name. Also this server crash forget banlist problem - is this a db fault or a UT2K3 one ?

Imo · Post by **Imo** » 01-08-2003 16:20

How easy is it to change that "unique" ID? Registry change?

XiLLeRaToR · Post by **XiLLeRaToR** » 01-08-2003 16:25

its generated by ur cd key imo, which can be changed in ur registry yeah, but its gotta be a working one for online etc

(regedit-hkeylocalmachine-software-unrealtechnologies-installedapps-ut2003-modify the cd key string)

theberkin8or · Post by **theberkin8or** » 01-08-2003 17:27

just make sure the admin can unban someone easly... though it probably wouldn't happen much there is a possiblity to score two own goals with out meaning to

Post by **The_One** » 01-08-2003 17:30

as if anyone would be stupid enough to do that..ahem :cough: