Andrew i see your point, but i beg to differ on the ''does it solve anything? no'' bit
Banning for hacking is permanent. 3 bans are an ip ban (i think).
Permenant bans in this way is good since if you really liked that acc, you have to pay to get it unbanned, the financial downfall might offer incentive not to hack again.
Ip bans in the current system means that you arent ip banned immediately for the reasons theyo highlighted.
Although people can bypass the bans by making a new account, they can only do this very few times until they eventually get ip banned (if they continue hacking)
Ip banning IS effective since a using a proxy means higher ping, makes the server less enjoyable to play on, and theyll probs eventually give up. (Oh btw, any staff reading this, consider a proxy detector plugin? Some other servers have it and they seem to work well).
I think the best solution is to wait for a antihack to be implemented on all the servers. Although it the best solution, its also the hardest to implement. The new skywars one released recently seems to work well too. Im sure theyre already looking into expanding the PAC to other servers, its just a matter of time. Soon the number of hackers will dramatically decrease
you are verry wrong at a few bits.
->Ip banning IS effective since a using a proxy means higher ping,<-
you don't need a proxy. at all.
unplugg your modem for about 5 secs, plug back in, re-estabilish internet connection and you got a brand new ip.
it takes far more effort to use a proxy then to re-set the modem.
loosing the character is not important to a cheater.
they can get money within minutes by cheating, ultimately it means they can get stacks of godapples, and god sets.
the only single thing you might miss is the name.
however, anyone with more than a single braincell, would use the alternate accounts for cheating and grinding money and stuff.
and transfer the money to the "real" account, along with some interesting loot.
so your point, that ip-ban is in any ways usefull in stoping people from cheating..
is invalid. banned? no problem, new name.
Ip banned? noo problem. new ip.
there aren't that mutch players on pika, at least half of the registered users are alt.accounts.
this hurts pika on financial scale too,
only fools need to purchase an unban.
what can make a character valuable?
usefull mcmmo skills that take time to grind.
you would not want to "loose" a character that had to grind a lot to get some nice mcmmo skills.
if, skills wold work properly. this leads back to my other suggestion thread, a good example is smelting and salvage.
there has to be ways of making it available to grind a skill, and get reasonable income from that skill.
server forcing the usage of a given texture pack -as i mentioned before- is allso a feature i would like, many basic x-ray cheats are just a texture pack with transparent textures.
a signed tamper free client is a nother mandatory item to prevent people from cheating.
as punishment after cheating is allready too late.
