2012-03-29, 11:56 PM
Leaves Wrote:Or it could shut down the client and still report it (like the autoban system does). Doesn't that make a little more sense?
Exactly what shouri said. If the GMs were actually active (lol, nice joke there), when the reports came in, they could investigate while it was going on. They could immediately determine if someone was cheating, rather than just banning them, and hoping that they were. There's false positives on everything, all the time. Going purely based on some trigger getting set to true is foolish, and only going to lead to issues. Even if they weren't hacking then, repeat offenders of this could be put on a "watch" list, where the GMs randomly check up on them, and then re-evaluate their situation. Since shutting off this new protection is significantly easier than working through/around it, it would be a useful tool to catch hackers.