About Darkphil/ PhilCul etc. etc.

[Spade]

Hi guys, just a quick heads up.

I've noticed that this sad loser is pestering your servers as well (done some searches to see where else he plays on). Just a FYI, he's connecting through proxies, mostly anonymous ones, sometimes transparent ones and that's why he is able to bypass the bans so easily. Doesn't mean you should stop banning him, but be aware that those bans don't keep him away. If your server is on a Linux box, you can ban proxies with IPTables, although not a perfect solution since you can't really have on-demand proxylist check, but at least you can cover most of them.

Because I haven't played with B3 I'm not sure if it has required features but if it has, you could check the client headers on B3 and block if they return proxy info. However, not all proxies advertise the fact so that isn't perfect solution either. On the other hand, the guy in question doesn't seem to be the brightest on the block since he keeps using variations of his name and keeps playing with same style every time making him easy to recognise.

He has lately been changing his nick bit more, especially using tag [SAMCRO] (e.g. yesterday he was using [SAMCRO]alphonse$$) and today he was using nick DArkPhilou, so keep eye on players using [SAMCRO] tag or "phil" somewhere in their nick. Also if you keep eye on XLRStats list, it'll show if someone is using anonymous proxy to connect, if you see that, it's 99.99999% certain that your little cheater friend is back.

[AimMe]

We have him 7 times banned permanantly, just by name containing darkphil. All his bans are form this month, between 8th and 25th. We set up IP ban as well, but guess that won't help here...

[Spade]

We have him 7 times banned permanantly, just by name containing darkphil. All his bans are form this month, between 8th and 25th. We set up IP ban as well, but guess that won't help here...

It does help in that he seems to be smart enough to look for proxies at around where he lives (same and nearby countries), so far I've seen him using German, Swedish and Dutch proxies. Although many, there is still limitied number of available proxies in each country. We've already had few occasions where he's tried to connect using already banned proxy.

Once he runs out of those due bans he is forced to use ones further away making his ping and connection worse every time. If he keeps kicked before he barely manages to join a team and even if he manages to play, he has high ping and crappy connection, he'll eventually give up.

The guy is smart enough to use proxies so I'm sure he's smart enough to realise that the whole thing isn't worth the time. Even when he's not smart enough to change his name completely or to hide the wallhack and bot (he is using narrow FOV settings).

[Souljah]

So lets ruin his fun by banning him again and again....its a never ending story
Maybe one day...he will learn to play fair^^

[BEH]

..And thx for sharing, Spade. Always nice if someone helps out.