Halo PC/CE now just that bit more safe from piracy!

[Cortexian]

Ask if they can prohibit clients 1.0 and 1.04 (THOSE ONLY!) from querying the server list. Heh.

Actually, just block the servers from talking to Gamespy on those versions. Then you don't need to worry about clients since there will be no list.

Will do!

I asked him if he could ban via hash so that I could give him some hashes from my Devicator database that have a bajjillion names associated with them:

I need to figure that part out; I don't currently know how to correlate the key with the hash that appears in the ban file, so I'll have to dig through the source.

I have to be careful about that from a policy perspective, though: if someone files an official complaint with Microsoft that they were banned, I don't think I can cite "community volunteers" as a legally valid source of ban data. When you give me the CD key, that's actual proof (or, put another way, if posessing the CD key makes you its owner, then you just asked me to ban 8 copies that you own, and I obliged :-)

anyway, the Gamespy site automatically tracks keys that are being used from multiple IPs and I can continue to ban the notable offenders based on that, so don't trouble yourself over it.

thanks,

Roger

Also, I'm testing the waters with my latest message to him... Lets see what kind of a reaction he has to what we, the community, mainly Rec0, Kornman, etc, have been able to do to the dedicated server in terms of the Devicator. I'd like to see if he's for researching the game like this or not, though since Halo CE is mainly Gearboxes game I'm not sure he'll much care.