Guys, realistically, it is almost impossible for us to monitor behaviour in our Public Servers.
That’s the good part, it hasn't to be
you (or any of the admin) to physically be present in the server.
Reporting people here won't achieve much, unless they are Racedepartment Racing Club Members (unlikely).
Well, I think you are mentioning (or suggesting) that the
children will just get another steam ID key (key generator or whatever) and continue to play in the server. To tell you the truce, I really don't know if the online playing part of the game is
cracked (I know single player is), but at least the
brat would have to get another key and change id.
Unfortunately, bad behaviour on public servers is all too common, so if you want clean racing, please consider joining our Racing Club and race our passworded servers.
I do agree with
90% of your club rules...
I just can't "
eat" the
real name part as to me associating in single www site, my
name, my
location (I
P & ISP),
time of connection (
site records), and
money (
donations) is a no go in security terms. I can probably trust you (or any of the admin), the thing is
RD might not leave forever (
as the rest of us), we don't know where all the data goes after an hypothetical site closer.
Well, back on the public server administration...
So far as I can see, what you guys would need would be a public e-mail and 10 minutes max from a server administrator.
I don't know if you guys record in the server all the races that happen there. You might not as it is
resource consuming, but if you did...
It would be too easy, I user would mail reporting a repeated abuse by the
alias X at certain
time &
date (not only file time but also movie time). The admin (now comes the
work part) checks the replay, see the repeated abuse, adds STEAM key to the ban list (or doesn’t see anything and does nothing). Done... for instances the complain I was going to do, was regarding a
dumb dude who was even using an alias attached to a his
STEAM ID (the one he uses to buy games from
STEAM), very easy to find even from my side, not talking about the server side (where his
ID is in the log).
If the server doesn't record the races,
likely, the user (me) just sends to the public e-mail account the
alias of the
wrecker,
time and
date of the file,
times in the movie where the
brat does his antics and of course, the file. Now the only "extra" work the admin. as to do in regards to what is typed above is to copy the movie file to a valid GTREvo install
replaydata folder.
Ok, not everybody does it cleanly as I do, I only complain of true
wreckers (ramming, going backwards on the track, repeating blockers and such) and do it clearly (short precise e-mails), I don’t complain about “
hard” racing, racing incidents or any of the sort.
So, yes, likely you would receive (along with much junk a public mail gets) some unnecessary reports (or fake or whatever), but then again, very few people lose 30 minutes to do a fake report
I must admit that I’m having all this work because I’ve been gaming online for what, 10 years?!, more?, I don’t know, but what it is certain to me is that I only race on-line for 3 or 4 months.
The first thing that jumped to my sight, when coming from online shooters, war games, and such is that the ratio of open/close servers is much smaller than in any other kind of on-line games, and to my astonishing,
many people complained,
few actually did something regarding improper behavior. The solution was always (in most cases anyway), “they are bad in public servers” so come to “good closed servers”.
An open community has many, many more users then a closed one and above all (what is important to me and others) the game lives longer. I’m sure
SimBin if the community asked for it would take the effort of improving administrating tools in order to facilitate things like a common ban list and such…
Just to make it clear, I’m not advocating here against “closed” servers, they are part of the game, and much needed for racing leagues, ladders, single events and the like.