🚀 go-pugleaf

goPostal wrote:

... Bloody ages ago - sorry!

> Flash I used ScreenshotSender on my UT2004 server for a while and I started 
> getting tired of fighting people over totally aimbot screenshots. Deny, 
> deny, deny was the standard. I got pissed about it and contacted Gugi, who 
> coded the sender. He blessed my little idea so I created a nice little box 
> map with the cheaters screenshots plastered all over the walls. I figured it 
> would either get my server bombed with crashers or highlight what you SHOULD 
> NOT DO. Mind you, each of the botters highlighted on the map was given a 
> chance by me personally to remove the bot before playing on my server and 
> chose to ignore me.
> 
> I'm happy to report that it worked wonderfully. Even better it was 
> well-received among the players and a couple of busted players came forward 
> and apologized. Now another server uses it to remind their players too, and 
> it was received well there too. My personal opinion is that for too long the 
> cheat community has operated in the dark, with normal people only partially 
> understanding what aimbots/radars/hacks can do. Anyone that admins my 
> servers get a package of the latest aimbots with instructions on install, 
> usage, then removal. I WANT them to see what they do so it's much easier to 
> spot. Shines a light on them and to a man my admins go "OMG! I never knew!"

I've stopped short of posting the obvious screens publically, but maybe 
that's not the right thing to do. I think there are arguements on both 
sides - educating and highlighting vs downplaying and underreporting.

Obviously I think educating is a good thing - I wrote the FAQ based on 
that, but I'm genuinely undecided about publishing UTDC screenies of 
aimbots in (brief) action, whether it would encourage others to try or 
whether they're smart enough to realise they'll get caught and banned 
for life if they do. I've had to ban plenty regular players who were 
stupid for a moment and tried to use a bot on our servers.

> You are welcome to use the map any way you'd like. 

Thanks - but I don't really like 2k4 very much. Not a great thing since 
I'm kinda minding the Multiplay 2k4's until they can replace the last CL.