Unable to kick/ban players? Options

[Shifty]

this isn't related to the mob server at all, but since you're very knowledgeable about this kinda stuff I'm hoping someone can help me out.

I was playing on the FoF server (i think they run CI serverside but no miss.) and 2 obvious hackers came in and were crashing the server etc.

The admin tried to kick/ban but it didn't work! They were still on the server and crashing it at will.

Is there any way to get rid of them cos they're spoiling what was a good game?

many thanks and apologies for taking up mob bandwidth over a non mob problem

[NecroKitty]

It could also be they were using a nasty program (which I will not name in a public forum) which basically will not let rcon/CI commands work on the offending player. What it will eventually do is overrun your console and crash your server.

The way we deal with this hack is by using in-game commands. We have scripts to take the hacker's weapons away, and then "space" him (which puts him hundreds and hundreds of polygons above the map - essentially in grey area). We do this until we can manually type in a command (which works against the settings in this particular hack program) to get him off the server, then add his IP to the ban list. In some cases we will ban the entire string if there are few or no other players in that string.