How many of you fuckers have even played a community server based game in the last 4 years? It still takes hours/days to get a hacker banned, and that is with the admin actually playing every night. It's all politics, recordings, and bullshit.
And it doesn't even stop the hackers, because a community server running something like punksbusted (not punkbuster, but a community blacklist) still gets hackers as they swap mac addresses, ips and other identifiers.
The way to stop hackers is the same way to stop scammers. Find them in meatspace and make them unable to ever hack or scam again.
There's different levels of community servers. The way you're describing it, I haven't played on anything like that in years (likely decades). Playing on private servers with friends, do that a bunch. Limit access to people you know and people they trust, if someone starts being a douche then boot (which I've really only had come up once).
That said, I will acknowledge that I pretty much never do PvP stuff, just co-op/PvE. So, if you're looking for constant PvP matches with something then, yeah, inviting in a half dozen or less friends to the server will probably not work out too well.
How many of you fuckers have even played a community server based game in the last 4 years? It still takes hours/days to get a hacker banned, and that is with the admin actually playing every night. It's all politics, recordings, and bullshit.
And it doesn't even stop the hackers, because a community server running something like punksbusted (not punkbuster, but a community blacklist) still gets hackers as they swap mac addresses, ips and other identifiers.
The way to stop hackers is the same way to stop scammers. Find them in meatspace and make them unable to ever hack or scam again.
There's different levels of community servers. The way you're describing it, I haven't played on anything like that in years (likely decades). Playing on private servers with friends, do that a bunch. Limit access to people you know and people they trust, if someone starts being a douche then boot (which I've really only had come up once).
That said, I will acknowledge that I pretty much never do PvP stuff, just co-op/PvE. So, if you're looking for constant PvP matches with something then, yeah, inviting in a half dozen or less friends to the server will probably not work out too well.
PvP is pretty much the only place anticheat matters. If you are doing co-op with friends and there are cheaters, you just need new friends.