26.11.2011, 12:56
I wouldn't know if this will work out, and I don't think anyone can tell so. It's like *******, popular in USA, but here nobody uses it. Or Yahoo!. And so on...but it IS a nice idea if the anti-cheat is accurate (fake kill-proof eg) and if there's still a way to unban appeal in a proper way. Many people have dynamic IPs, if the database gets big enough, there might be some people banned because they've got the same IP as some other hacker.
A suggestion on the system might be to involve some of the owners of the big "oldschool" servers or famous scripters. Show (parts of) the script to Blacklite, littlewhiteys, Y_Less, Zh3r0, ... They are trustable (trustable as in "they won't give away the scripts"), reliable and they are big names in the community. If THEY are interested in it, if they are positive about the script and if they implement it into their servers (ikr didn't mention much servers/owners), smaller servers might implement it as well.
Additionnally, you will need a team of about 4 people (if it gets popular) to scan the server applications to implement it, check the bans, sort the unban appeals, ...
About unban appeals: I don't know about your scripting skills at that point, but you might be able to connect a 'bot' which sends the appeals to the appropriate site. Eg I post an unban appeal on the main site, marking the server on which I got banned, then the appeal will automatically be sent to the the site of the particular server, and then any reply on one of those two forums will be posted on the other one by the bot. Sync'ing the forums thus. And also the other way around, if someone appeals a ban on that server forum (and if it's made by your system), the 'bot' will copy it to the main unban forum. But this will be hard, as there will be a lot of idiots who 'don't know' where they got banned or just don't care to correctly fill in the appeal.
Another thing I just thought of would be to make it compare the appeal IPs/nicknames to the database, so the information stores will be automatically posted with the appeal. Like, just a field 'nickname' and 'why you want to be unbanned', and the rest is given by the database itself.
Regards,
-[MM]IKKE
A suggestion on the system might be to involve some of the owners of the big "oldschool" servers or famous scripters. Show (parts of) the script to Blacklite, littlewhiteys, Y_Less, Zh3r0, ... They are trustable (trustable as in "they won't give away the scripts"), reliable and they are big names in the community. If THEY are interested in it, if they are positive about the script and if they implement it into their servers (ikr didn't mention much servers/owners), smaller servers might implement it as well.
Additionnally, you will need a team of about 4 people (if it gets popular) to scan the server applications to implement it, check the bans, sort the unban appeals, ...
About unban appeals: I don't know about your scripting skills at that point, but you might be able to connect a 'bot' which sends the appeals to the appropriate site. Eg I post an unban appeal on the main site, marking the server on which I got banned, then the appeal will automatically be sent to the the site of the particular server, and then any reply on one of those two forums will be posted on the other one by the bot. Sync'ing the forums thus. And also the other way around, if someone appeals a ban on that server forum (and if it's made by your system), the 'bot' will copy it to the main unban forum. But this will be hard, as there will be a lot of idiots who 'don't know' where they got banned or just don't care to correctly fill in the appeal.
Another thing I just thought of would be to make it compare the appeal IPs/nicknames to the database, so the information stores will be automatically posted with the appeal. Like, just a field 'nickname' and 'why you want to be unbanned', and the rest is given by the database itself.
Regards,
-[MM]IKKE