SLAC match id system

Hi,

this is a preview of the match system that will soon be enabled (perhaps today), please tell me what you think about it and if you'd like something changed/added.

The reason this is implemented is to avoid all the slac-id screenshotting problems and to make it easier to check who used SLAC during a war.

When you start SLAC, you will be asked to enter a match ID:

image: enter_wid

If you don't enter anything and press X, Continue or ESCAPE, it will start game normally and won't keep history of on which servers you played (pracs, publics, random tests, etc). However, if you're playing a match, you'll be able to enter the war id provided by the league/cup site and after a match is finished, you'll be able to check who used SLAC, whether they blocked SLAC's connection in firewall/netlimited/etc (they'll stop appearing in this log and some people used it to get away with cheating because people wouldn't check sl_players during game where it's obvious they disappear from the list).

What it'll look like on the site in people's profiles:
image: profile_wars

when you click on a match in a user's profile:
image: full_wid

and if you decide to filter specific user's activity during a match:
image: user_wid

Suggestions welcome. :)
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looks goot!
Looks really nice, fair play. I bet no-one will be bothered to find their CB Match ID tho :p
this is useful for CB's wid=xxxxxxxxxx
yeah, that's the main reason why i made it.. ET community is not used to it, but in COD4 everyone uses it
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show part of the user ip in logs
might be easier to read a slightly more streamlined version, maybe only show when a user reconnects if their ip is changed for example?

maybe you could flag changes in ip / hardware id during a match session for paranoid people!

BETTER IDEA: a match summary which just lists the slac id of everyone who connected with no other details needed ?
good idea, there will be a match summary, but with an ability to see the full log because someone may start ET with SLAC and then kill SLAC's connection.. people will still need to check the full match log to see for how long someone used it
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you get kicked from server if u shutdown slac?
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the slac server addon is not forced
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it should be. i know lots of people that always dodge slac at praccs...
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i suppose that's a solution for the leagues to force but i agree with you
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force it on your own server -> profit
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yes, it's forced!!! But lot's of people always want war at their server, so they can dodge the slac n stuff. I'm not going to point my finger to anyone, but i guess we all know who they are :DDD
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interesting
looks nice
awesome man!! :D
i check ingame if someone is too good/obvious :p

i think a lot of ppl are doing like me, so we know against who we play, and we know more when its an offi ( so match id thing is pretty useless imo )
what about SLACs future? i read something about no further support from Speedlink?
The only thing the future of SLAC depends on is whether I'll succeed in my plans to monetize the site through ads because I'm not continuing the project for free.. if the ads still continue to be useless after the userbase becomes bigger, I don't know what I'll do.. regarding SL, it's been like that for the past 6-7 months and will continue to be like that (they will cover server costs).. I am trying to monetize the site through ads and if someone wants to support me, they can donate..
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sell a slac workaround?
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then you make list and we make monies okey??
Parent
I think you will receive more donations if you focus on ET and take suggestions. I have only seen this post regarding updates. The SLAC app has come a long way since the first release, but needs some more tweaking and features.

ET is a dying game, so if you can get the source code from the creators of ETPro, integrate a 4.0 ETPro + SLAC... few updates from the community... ingame messenger and friends list... you got a fucking winner :)... ET is getting no new interest, it's a dead game now... there aren't many active community's. The new CoD is out in Sep or Nov... ET will lose many more players then.... Brink is here also.... jeez... the SLAC work is amazing, would be a waste... I would sure donate £££ if you was to work on integrating it with ETPro with some new features!!!!
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I'm afraid integration with ETPro is not an option.. and I've been focusing on ET for the past 6-7 months without getting absolutely anything for my work, now I'm at a point where I'll either expand SLAC with games 10 times bigger than ET or SLAC's future will not be very bright.
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can you add the real slac names to sl_players yet ?

Im not too bothered about the match system, personally I think trust is enough :D
I'll try adding it, yes
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sl_listplayers?
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half the servers still dont use the slac server mod
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nonsense.
why? i can know whos playing by sl_players/sl_listplayers.

better if you would make server addon with match logs like who logged ref who voted map, who what wrote@chat etc
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this is better evidence for catching freelancers than console output :p
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very good idea
nice work, its looking good. Seeming as it will prevent having to take sl_players or sl_listplayers each official match, saving it and uploading for admins. it could be an idea to contact a clanbase admin about rules of the cup when this works properly.

As someone posted above, I think this window should only appear if you click on a button somewhere saying match(for example) I agree it would be annoying clicking the X everytime this pops up. But this would be hard for people who auto start their et when they run slac.
It hasn't been mentioned yet but it is quite important:

Do not show server ips in the match id log as this will expose gtv servers and the last thing we want is more DDoS ruined matches.
epic,impressive, nice :) just enable sv_cheats on slac server addons LOL... it blocks sv_cheats.. :)
hope this wont pop up everytime I open slac?
First impression is pretty good, seems like an usefull feature. Only "but" i can think of is also if this will pop up every time, as im only playing pracs ;-D

Keep the good work up <3
I have idea ;] !! :D maybe contact with cb ? and make something like auto connect to server with war ? you can do tab for example Offi war where we can type id like here but if we click yes then it connect us to server with all settings etc not fucking windows it can be anoying ;p if we have tu click smth it's my opinion:)
Good idea imo
u need some1 to sponsor u!
How does one log the fact that someone is netlimiting?

And isn't net limiting legal?
How to distinguish between ESL or/and CB or other leagues?
very cool chap, but for the screenshotting problem it would be enough to just timestamp them the regular way imho :p
will it be possible to specify match id as startup parameter? e.g. if i will start slac with something like
+set fs_game etpro +connect my.cool.server.com +set match_id 413657143
We r just being spied, every fucking action you do is registered, this is bullshit, freedom please...
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