Hello Skial nerds,
I'm pretty notorious on the forums and Discord for my hatred of cheaters as well as my mockery of Valve for firmly sticking their head in the dirt in dealing with said cheaters. I don't give a fuck if you were "just a foolish kid" when you cheated or if you are a lifelong Premium Lmaobox gimp (paying a monthly/yearly price to cheat in a free game. Lmfao.exe)
Seemingly Valve bans in waves and "catches" cheaters but does very little to PREVENT new account cheating. And I've been watching and it never seems to get better for ya'll beyond improvements to SMAC.
So I propose this. A means to block obvious alt accounts before they can get on. Perma-ban/block all Level 0 steam accounts that try to connect to Skial server.
See this account for example. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199120754269
http://stats.skial.com/#summary/player/SteamID/All/[U:1:1160488541]
Fresh to Skial and probably just used one of those steam account generators, threw on some free cheats and jumped on Skial to be a little hacking douchebag.
But a pattern with these accounts is they are almost never a "developed" account (private, "user has not set up account", level 0 garbage)
Pre-Banning these accounts will relieve the pressure from admins and the little tard kids that watch a Youtube video and think they can just copy what they see and think it will be fun. Do yourselves and your community of regulars a favor so they don't have to make reports and whine in the Discord.
Potential issues: Legit skial players that actually have 1000's of hours in tf2 or on Skial, but TF2 is their only game cause they're poor. Say for example I had a 10 year steam account but could never afford any games except for free ones, thus my Steam account has always been level 0.
Solution: Let them appeal on a case-by-case basis and if they have good history on Skial then their account and IP can be unbanned. Either that or fuck 'em cause tf2 has been out since 2007 and if you're still some Level 0 FTP steam user to this day then bro go get some levels.
Please Consider this Bottiger and other admins, it will lower your population by removing or blocking mostly trash steam users anyways but will increase Skial's rep of doing more to stop cheaters.
Don't forget to +1 if you liked this suggestion and rate this post "dumb" if you didn't.
Love you all.
-Metz
I'm pretty notorious on the forums and Discord for my hatred of cheaters as well as my mockery of Valve for firmly sticking their head in the dirt in dealing with said cheaters. I don't give a fuck if you were "just a foolish kid" when you cheated or if you are a lifelong Premium Lmaobox gimp (paying a monthly/yearly price to cheat in a free game. Lmfao.exe)
Seemingly Valve bans in waves and "catches" cheaters but does very little to PREVENT new account cheating. And I've been watching and it never seems to get better for ya'll beyond improvements to SMAC.
So I propose this. A means to block obvious alt accounts before they can get on. Perma-ban/block all Level 0 steam accounts that try to connect to Skial server.
See this account for example. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199120754269
http://stats.skial.com/#summary/player/SteamID/All/[U:1:1160488541]
Fresh to Skial and probably just used one of those steam account generators, threw on some free cheats and jumped on Skial to be a little hacking douchebag.
But a pattern with these accounts is they are almost never a "developed" account (private, "user has not set up account", level 0 garbage)
Pre-Banning these accounts will relieve the pressure from admins and the little tard kids that watch a Youtube video and think they can just copy what they see and think it will be fun. Do yourselves and your community of regulars a favor so they don't have to make reports and whine in the Discord.
Potential issues: Legit skial players that actually have 1000's of hours in tf2 or on Skial, but TF2 is their only game cause they're poor. Say for example I had a 10 year steam account but could never afford any games except for free ones, thus my Steam account has always been level 0.
Solution: Let them appeal on a case-by-case basis and if they have good history on Skial then their account and IP can be unbanned. Either that or fuck 'em cause tf2 has been out since 2007 and if you're still some Level 0 FTP steam user to this day then bro go get some levels.
Please Consider this Bottiger and other admins, it will lower your population by removing or blocking mostly trash steam users anyways but will increase Skial's rep of doing more to stop cheaters.
Don't forget to +1 if you liked this suggestion and rate this post "dumb" if you didn't.
Love you all.
-Metz
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