[Suggestion] Ban system by Hardware ID/Serial

[Jarnokai]

The worst part about this topic is we still discuss it.



It's really annoying how everyone's like "but everything from the client can be modified and that doesn't make any sense to provide that feature". I'm sorry, but fuck off. If every single multiplayer game (let's take GTA:O here for instance) would follow the same attitude and rules as we are discussing here, just because "hypothetically" client-side thing can be modified - they would never provide any security.



Not all players are hackers, not all players know how to do it. Provide damn security without thinking "ugh, that can be modified by client, let's not provide that". Modifying client info isn't the easiest task for some people. 90% of SA-MP is just players I guess, that know nothing about software engineer.



So please, stop that nonsense, because what we are having here is the same discussion I've seen on sa-mp's forum back 10 years ago.



In short:

Provide internal natives that are unique for each client, without overthinking

Even though this post is a bit harsher than needed in my opinion, I do still support the thinking. Not providing a good, hardware-specific code for the server to use just because a hacker might bypass it sounds a bit silly. As he said, even if this ID system wouldn't block hackers (Who, at the point of using some gameplay hacks, will obviously also use one that spoofs the ID) it will block badly behaving players with unmodified games. Often the reason for banning someone isn't that they are blatantly hacking. People get banned for not following server rules, and hacking is only one of often many rules enforced by servers. Maybe someone was spamming, teamkilling, doing something non-RP in a heavy RP server, advertising other servers, or otherwise causing grief to other players. Keep in mind that this ID could not only be used for permanent bans, but also for temporary ones!