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§ï×darts wrote:
>> I tried running a 99 server for a bit, but
>> damn there are a lot of botters now. I guess anti-cheat didn't really keep

UTDC 2.0c pretty much stops most things. I only know of one aimbotter 
who's got past that. When we installed it we caught a lot of players who 
are now quite effectively excluded.

> For UT99, the best cheat protection is no cheat protection.  The botters all
> have bots loaded up that depend on PURE and etc being loaded on the server.

Sadly, that's no longer true. There was a time when it was - when CSHP 
and Pure were being deliberately targetting, but their days as useful 
anticheat are long gone.

> One of my network admin pals tells me that it might be possible to actually
> rotate servers without disconnecting clients between games.  He suggested a
> server with PURE and one without and cycling the servers with a script from
> UT... when a game ends, a script could trigger a programmable router into a
> load balance scenario that ran dynamic ip tables to move the clients to a
> different server without them being aware of the change.  It might have been
> an interesting experiment but there just aren't enough players anymore.

There's still quite a few players if you look. The upsurge we had when 
UT3 came out was noticable on ut99, and when Steam started selling UT99 
for about six dollars we saw another surge. We generally get 70-100 
players a night on the multiplay ut99 servers. We peaked a few months 
ago at 130 or so. I still play every day and find good clean games.

Ut99 ain't dead yet!