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An appeal to Tripwire to remove PBBans from red orchestra HOS

An appeal to Tripwire to remove PBBans from red orchestra HOS

  • No , let server admins control who plays on their own server.

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • Yes i support pbbans

    Votes: 5 71.4%

  • Total voters
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guiltyspark

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Jun 24, 2010
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Cheating in games is annoying , we have all been effected by it at some point or another most of the time only temporarily due to the had work of server admins.

In the recent years there have been development of monitoring software that tracks and monitors cheat busting software like punkbuster , and it black lists players the software deems to be "cheating" regardless if they were cheating or not.

On of these programs is called PBbans.

PBbans runs through punk buster , it monitors punkbuster and makes decisions that often ends up blacklisting players from every single server that uses PBbans , which in some communities is quite huge. Most of these players are indeed cheaters , but there have been countless instances of innocent gamers being thrown onto this blacklist with seemingly no reason in sight , a simple google search will tell you their stories better than i can.

What is worse about PBbans are the people who run it. They are not responsible individuals and completely lack the quality control to have so much power over so many servers and players. In the past PBbans have held clans hostage because they deemed one of their players to be a "cheater" and unless the clan kicked out the player , PB bans would ACTUALLY BLOCK THEIR SERVER from passing punkbuster.

Their motto is "guilty until proven innocent". And its quite obvious they stand true to this concept because thousands of people have been barred from thousands of servers in an instant due to terrible software quality control , and on top of it corrupt server admins abusing the power of the software and getting people blacklisted intentionally , sometimes with no reason.


So I ask you fans of red orchestra , would you sacrifice your ability to play red orchestra to ensure that cheaters stay away?

Or should server admins simply ban problematic users instead of using this lazy , dangerous , and proven to be ineffective software to do the administration for them?
 
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