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Re: HOW TO Conduct a cheat-test : Advice for moderators [message #238439 is a reply to message #236082] Wed, 10 January 2007 14:12 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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You should have made your video or done your testing in a private server with willing participants... that's what everyone else does.

My way of testing cheaters kind of involves cheating yourself... but if you're a server owner than you have no one to answer to but yourself.

Basically, you create an objects.ddb file with tracers activated on all the guns, different colors for the alt-fire. Then, if you tell the player to right click and the tracer is clearly the left-click color, then you can say "no, your OTHER right-click" and they will know they are busted because you know which button they're pushing. Of course, to do this, you have to "cheat" by loading a custom objects.ddb file, and tracers are a huge advantage so you'd want to leave again and come back without the objects file loaded if you want to play, but I have used this several times on my server when I'm watching from IRC and someone is complaining about a cheater. I've busted people taking out the C-130 by watching when a tracer hits the plane and it disappears, and following the line to its source.


I'm the bawss.
 
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