UKTerrorist

Mediator

Posted by robe at 16:49 6/2/2002.

The server admins amoung you may be interested in Mediator. This is a tool for use on servers that run the Cheating-Death anti-cheat software. What Mediator does it to allow newbies to use the server without needing to have the Cheating-Death client. Only players with a high kill/death ratio are required to run the client.

Mediator sniffs server logs and uses KKrcon to talk to your half-life server and a single mediator can support multiple hlds servers with server unique configurations. When mediator detects a kill, it updates the ratio of the player in an in memory database. once this ratio reaches a predefined value (set up in mediator.cfg) the player's C-D status is checked whenever a kill is made.

A player who is "required" to use C-D by mediator is placed in an on disk database. When mediator is restarted, it loads this database into memory. so once a player is deemed a "good player", they are forever required to run C-D. the number of warnings is also saved to this database, so you only get your warnings once.