Author Topic: Cheat detection messages to GMs  (Read 1307 times)

ramlambmoo

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Cheat detection messages to GMs
« on: July 14, 2007, 09:50:50 am »
I think it would be a good idea to have Paladin (the cheat detection system) generate some sort of message to any GMs who are in game at the time telling them of logged actions.  At the moment Paladin produces logs, but no one monitors these.  If someone is logged cheating by paladin then a message is sent to all GMs who are online at the time (maybe only once every 5 minutes or some time frame, since if they're constantly cheating it will produce alot of messages), who would then be able to observe that persons behavior and ban them if necessary.
This would also give some testing to Paladin and help iron out any bugs, if for example there was a problem with people being flagged when they are not cheating, It would show up pretty quickly.
A way for GM's to opt-out of this would ne necessary in case the system got bugged and generated stacks of messages, or if the GM was busy with something else (like a RP event) at that time.
Lastly some sort of communication between GMs about this sort of thing.. if there are 10 gms online then you dont want every single one teleporting to observe someone running faster than usual.  Maybe further down the track once the basics are sorted some system whereby GM's could view a list of recent logged actions, and assign themselves to one of them, thereby taking it off the list.
I understand the aim would be for Paladin to do all this automatically, but the system would want to be pretty damn perfect for it to be automatically banning people, so at some stage there would need to be people overseeing it and testing it, and I think this method could work for that.

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Re: Cheat detection messages to GMs
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2007, 01:15:53 pm »
I like this idea :) I've seen a few speed hackers recently, some from pretty well known guilds too...

I always wondered if i should report it to a GM there and then?

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Re: Cheat detection messages to GMs
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2007, 06:03:17 pm »
I like this idea :) I've seen a few speed hackers recently, some from pretty well known guilds too...

I always wondered if i should report it to a GM there and then?

       I think you should not only report it to GMs, but also try to contact and inform the leaders of those guilds about it too, unless even the leaders of some guilds use "sp33dh4x", a possibility I consider simply, ridiculous if true, as then PlaneShift Community really reached the bottom of the pit with "l33t h4xx0rs" founding guilds.

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Re: Cheat detection messages to GMs
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2007, 09:55:49 am »
It could piggy-back on the petiton messaging system, that whenever a new petiton is submitted, all Gms are notified. I believe there was a way to opt out of that(or was it opt in?).
If a character had X number of violations in X amount of time, a petiton would be genenreated to alrert GMs. This of course assumes paladin is working, and not genereating an alert for every movement like it was at one point...
player -> gm -> dev -> bum