On my server, I get alot of flak "Because girls don't play halo and they make sandwiches" normally, I have no tolerance for these trolls, and I ban them as soon as the insult escapes onto the text-bar.

Now normally, they don't come back- but there are a few who seem to be able to defy the ban and come right on back to spew sexist comments, how do I keep someone banned?

Just ignore them, word's can't do no harm. Just find them in-game and troll them ;)

Lol. This makes me think of that south park episode "An Elephan Makes Love to a Pig"

"AYE! You get back in the kitchen and bake me same pie!"

lol. No but seriously, that is really annoying. Just take solace in that those people are most likely very young and at those ages sometimes boys especially just like to be annoying. Sexist, racist, doesn't matter. If it annoys someone, they want to do it. Don't take any of that crap to heart either.

i think you can but you will have to make a new map

Yea, the immature 10 year olds are good at proxies. ignore them and they will get bored and troll elsewhere.

halo CE players are like the covenant. Mostly composed of small children. (grunts).

Hey, idiots, guess what, halo bans by CD hash, not your ip.

Proxies don't have anything to do with it, if they are playing on your server after you ban them, it's someone on a CD key that hasn't been banned yet, simple as that.

Make sure your server retains it's banlist after being restarted.

This. They are probably using all of the 9 circulated CD Keys that everyone with a fake copy of HCE. Eventually, they will run out Or spend $20 a Key trying. Either way. You're winning.
Edited by 007 on May 12, 2011 at 07:35 PM

hey idiot, you can do either one. i prefer IP because more people bypass CD hash then IP.

If you're a moron using the SAPP server extension sure, you can, but why would you even want to. People's ips change all the time, their cd keys do not.

Banning by ip instead of cd key hash in halo is a terrible idea and you're an idiot if you think otherwise.

This much contempt is beneath even you. Take a chill pill before posting again.

Some people have IPS that change SOMETIMES, and some have IPS that never change. The idea is that i want that person off my server for the VERY LEAST the rest of the day...Some people can just open up a different client and rejoin.

While I vehemently disagree with how Sel was making his point the underlying message was valid. Each legal installation of Halo CE has a CD Key hash stored by the game that is unique to that installation regardless of the IP number. When someone connects to the server the client sends the CD Hash as part of the connection string so if you ban the hash key they are banned regardless of where they are connecting from.

Version 1.0 servers however are much more susceptible by clients not having hash keys because of the hacked version 1.0 Halo CE games that are out there. Those hacked games do not have a hash because it has been bypassed in the cracking of the game. That is why you can ban someone on a 1.0 server and they can get back in because the hash or unique identifier is missing.

So I'm dealing with a bunch of pirates? Oh wonderful.

Lol! If only it was that kind of pirate.

So would there be a way to track and or autoban cracked versions of Halo CE from the server side?

I think there's a way to make dedicated servers automatically kick people who say certain things. I know I got kicked automatically for saying "you suck" a couple of times.
I guess you could taboo the words sandwich and kitchen.

Play on 1.09.

Funny, you make yourself a homophobic person with that comment. This is a form of sexism in itself.

Unless ofc you mean one of the following:
1. a bundle of sticks or twigs, esp when bound together and used as fuel
2. a bundle of iron bars, esp a box formed by four pieces of wrought iron and filled with scrap to be forged into wrought iron
3. a ball of chopped meat, usually pork liver, bound with herbs and bread and eaten fried
4. a bundle of anything
none of which are fitting insults against people.
Edited by IcePhoenix on May 14, 2011 at 03:02 AM

I was totally in agreement with you up until that last word there.

or, just be nice and make them a sandwich?

You get angry, they find it fun. Don't get angry, they will lose the fun, they don't come back.

And yes, I would like a sandwich too, please? (just kiddin)

I feel your pain Karima, my game tag is "dounut" and people are always saying things that are not true about me just because the name I chose is the name of a gay/sexually confused character in a web show.

in conclusion, I have a solution to your problems.

1 backup all of your custom maps

2 uninstall halo CE

3 uninstall the halo trial if you have it

4 reinstall halo CE

5 enjoy a world of complete ignorance because the comment lines will be removed and you will not have to worry about the sexist jerks on the other end (it also adds a certain amount of coolness to the game enviroment as you will not know when someone joins and when they leave and when they get killed)

Which also applies here in the forum, actually.

Just install Sapp on your server, it allows you to text ban and ip anyone you dislike.
http://xhalo.co.cc

Actually 1.09 servers are just as susceptible to this as 1.0 even if your running an unmodified exe file :).

Or just turn the CD-key-check back on for your servers.

Text banning is a good solution as previously stated, then YOU Would get the last laugh..Literally.

Well dennis I do have to agree to disagree with you, I certainly get myself banned on 1.09 and when banning my hash, but just a slight tweak of my hash let's me right back into the room..that is how I and MANY others bypass your stupid ass "ban" it is only temporary..
as long as you know how to do it.

You have disagreed with my explanation of how Halo's ban system works by confirming that it works the way I said it does. Interesting logic.

Use HCEPatcher to reEnable CD key check for SAPP, keeps people with invalid hashes from joining your server, especially in 1.09