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Is there any way at all ban the people using ASCII with rcon? If so please explaine very slowly

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not realy, so it's a realy good thing people don't go running around telling these idiots how to... do... it.......

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ban by IP address.

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Key words there are "with rcon". You can not ban by ip with rcon.

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Yea thats my point. How do we get ip wif rcon?

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ok. lemme think for a second.
rcon is ban by nick only, right?
So if you, *ahem* [url=http://www.google.com]searched[/url] you could find them yourself to ban by nick by typing in those little things. a pain in the ass, I agree.
As for IP ban by rcon, as far as I know that's not possible.
I haven't fiddled with RF's rcon setup but can you get their IP via rcon? If you can get their IPs and write them down and send them to the server administrator he can add them to the banned IP list, can't he? Imperfect solution since they aren't banned right away...

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U can ban ip's by rcon. u jus cant get the ip's

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With rcon you can not get the ips.
With rcon if you try to type ascii characters the server crashes.
So ascii + rcon = SOL. The only thing you can do is change to a map and hope the modder doesnt have it, but chances are everyone else won't either. Or get to the server and get the ip from the status window, which for most of us running a server with a good fast connection, the server is located somewhere else. My server is at work, Farslayers was at work, many of the servers you see are hosted at places that are not easily accesible.

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yup like diffrent ****rys

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with most remote server utilities (VNC, i think) you get a screenshot of the server's screen, windows 2k only i think.

what you could do is put a desktop-screenshot-taking-program on the server, have it load on startup, and have it upload to itself or another website so you can see the server or console window when the page/image refreshes.

but im the kind of guy who would rather have the server in-house as to not deal with rcon.

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Is there any way at all ban the people using ASCII with rcon? If so please explaine very slowly

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Hypocrite! Your entire message above is nothing but 100% pure ASCII!

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WTF u talking about? Hypocrite???? Dont u find it amazing that the VWBB Admins told a modder(yes if u look at the modding section he says he makes mods, hes prolly 1 of the cheats that kill our games) how 2 type in these ASCII codes but wont explaine 2 a rcon user how 2 ban him when he comes and ****s up our games?

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the problem is that V made RF nearly as easy to mod for as FS was (at least simple table changes), but they only gave it half assed table checking, so what started out as simple mods turn into a canser of cheating, as soon as these people got ahold of some mods and figured out how to get them to run iligitimatly in multiplayer they continued to call them mods, becase there idiots.

now how many admins here play this game in multiplayer much, I used to, but I don't think I have more than three times sence the VBB went down, becase I knew the cheating wasn't going to go away, and it was only going to get worse, and I'd never see RF2, and if I did it'd probly be just as bad as the first one was.
I probly would still be playing this a little bit more than I do if the cheating issue wasn't so bad, one cheater will make a server unplayable, and with the average server holding about 8 players that means for each cheater, there are seven legitimate players that have to leave and find another server, without a cheater, wich considering there are only like five servers at the most with more than three players and most of the time once you enter you hear something like "****ing cheat!!!", that just fills you with such a warm fuzzy fealing (much like a heavy dose of radiation would), that you want to drive up to Champaign bang and scratch on the door screeming "give pach or DIE!!!" untill the frendly local cops show up, and you run and get lost in the corn feilds and die with the last thoughts on your mind being, "must get a patch, must kill the cheaters, must get a patch, must kill the cheaters..."...
what was I talking aobut again
oh ya

now the whole problem here is that someone came here and asked how to get the funky charicters in there name that V alowed people to put into there name but didn't alow to be put into any of the ban or kick comands, and someone (and admin none the less) told him how to, and not only that but not he nor any other admin will even admit that perhaps there is the posability that wasn't the wisest idea he ever had.

well that's just one more kick in the teeth that reminds me that V got 0wNt, and big companies are evil,
but luckly my mouth is still warm and numb from the last time

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AND....ontop of that....ZylonBane just pointed out (jokingly) that every single word you used to compose your message is in ASCII. Thats because nearly every (an exageration but not a huge one) computer in the world uses ASCII to display text on a screen.

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ok. lemme think for a second.
rcon is ban by nick only, right?
So if you, *ahem* [url=http://www.google.com]searched[/url] you could find them yourself to ban by nick by typing in those little things. a pain in the ass, I agree.
As for IP ban by rcon, as far as I know that's not possible.
I haven't fiddled with RF's rcon setup but can you get their IP via rcon? If you can get their IPs and write them down and send them to the server administrator he can add them to the banned IP list, can't he? Imperfect solution since they aren't banned right away...

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You are a complete dumb@ss. That was the most ignorant bunch of crap I've ever heard.

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better yet, you find a solution, since you're not open to our offerings.

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1. You can not get a player's IP with rcon.
2. You can not type non-standard ASCII characters into the rcon console or the server console.

So that leaves most servers without any means to remove a player with special characters in thier name. The only way to do it is to get on the server console of the server type info to get the players and type ban_ip <ip address>. This will not work 100% of the time either. If you have more than 1 player with the same ip, that will only ban 1. Then you have to kick the others by using ban <playername>. I had this problem just this weekend, luckily the second player did not have special characters in his name. For server admins (such as myself) who have a server that is in another location this can be a big pain in the butt. I have to quit my game (because alt-tab doesnt work), load up my remote connection program,dial in to the server, ban the S.O.B. then log off, restart RF, and try to get my stats back.

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