[Suggestion] Ban system by Hardware ID/Serial

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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).

Of course it won't be 100% secure, even if you had a way to check through a player's GTA SA installation for non-allowed files they could still figure a way to bypass it.? However, it would make life a lot easier when it comes to the average hacker who's looking to troll rather than someone who's actively attempting to attack a server by spoofing client information.? With how it is in SA-MP, it isn't hard at all to get around a ban when you can simply use a free VPN or simply restart your router to change your IP address.? I don't think anybody here would believe even having a unique serial that's tied to your PC would stop everyone from getting past it but it will stop most people who can get past currently used methods in SA-MP today.