Ok i am an admin for my own hosted server. I am sick of doing range bans. Range bans are flawed nowadays too. I don't know how but these morons don't stay banned, and sometimes even the wrong person can be banned due to the range/global ban.
I was hoping that the tremulous developers can come up with a way to ban people with GUIDs instead of or with IPs. I wont understand how it works, probably is an idea that has been thought of before, but lets try taking some action this time.
If the person doesn't have a GUID then i guess GUID banning is not in any luck for them. A lot of people who play trem have GUIDs, i have only come by a few nowadays that don't.
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Omiting Guid bans is as easy as omiting bans by ip. One can even automate it.
Edit:
This is from the p-g-qvm (http://code.google.com/p/p-g-qvm/wiki/Features) and fixes your "ok players are affected by range bans":
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!immunity (I): Gives a player immunity from an IP ban. Player must have GUID and be registered with the server. Does nothing against GUID bans. Uses same flag as !ban.
!suspendban (J): Suspends a ban in !showbans for up to 14 days.
Yea, I agree with this topic. Too bad I don't know how to do such a thing. :P
But I support you.
QuoteOmiting Guid bans is as easy as omiting bans by ip. One can even automate it.
Hes/Shes right.
Thx for the support, now lets get some Patchers in here to help us out.
Umm, did you read bissig's post? p-g-qvm has !immunity, as do a number of other qvms. Set up a topic on your forums about ban immunities. Then you can grant these immunities to people via guid.
This doesn't look like off topic
edit: I checked range bans. They are string based and not cidr. I guess there is already a cidr based one.(I could not find it)
The one, who made the string based range bans, must be a funny guy :P
The way we do subnet bans, that is, the ones that work with immunity, is as follows.
We create a ban block in admin dat, but dont finish the string under ip, and leave guid blank.
So for example, to ban 10.30.*.*, we just do 10.30.
We typically give it a name of SUBNET BAN, and a reason of BANNED SUBNET, TO REQUEST IMMUNITY VISIT FORUMS.
Thats how the immunity works.
We might code up a !subnet feature later, though.