(2019-06-09, 03:09 AM)DTV Wrote:(2019-06-08, 07:59 PM)SimoSbara Wrote: Banning by MAC address or other hardware information it isn't possible on SAMP. However you can ban by the GPCI that is derived from the installation path of GTA SA.
Remember that this isn't SA:MP ;)
The reason why this is even suggested though is because of how gpci generates a serial currently.? Using the installation path isn't good enough because it's been known for years that multiple people can have the same serial assigned to them and thus would make a ban system reliant on it a bad idea.? However, since open.mp is still in the initial development phase, I imagine its very much possible to have the way gpci generate a serial use a different method that would prevent multiple people from getting the same serial (if not, make it very unlikely for it to happen).
The thing is that GPCI was never meant to be a unique identifier, I don't know why people started using it to ban people. That was a terrible idea.
The best use of GPCI was to detect whether the clients had mods installed.
Returning to the original topic, I believe?that it's nearly impossible to create a?100% working ban system. Whatever you may invent:?MAC address, Windows product key, hardware info... All of this information can be easily spoofed by a hacker to open.mp / SA-MP, so that SA-MP Servers will think that they're getting the actual MAC address, Windows product key, hardware info of a certain player,?but in reality they ain't. It's not hard to reverse-engineer the client, change stuff in order to make it bypass the checks and rebuild it.
Then said hacker will most likely upload the cheats to some cheating website, and here you are, lots of cheaters will know how to be unbannable.
The most efficient way to stop people from cheating is to have active moderators (or some kind of super artificially intelligent anticheat that continuously learns).