[ bzflag-Feature Requests-1183982 ] Detecting cheats

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Feature Requests item #1183982, was opened at 2005-04-15 13:03
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Category: BZFlag
Group: Anti-Cheat
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 9
Private: No
Submitted By: kc9foh (kc9foh)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Detecting cheats

Initial Comment:
Is there a way to allow owners, admins, and cops a way
to know or detect if someone is cheating for sure? I
and others have noticed supcious activity but noway to
verify! Maybe a way the server could detect a anaolmy
in the programing or someother way to scan for cheats.
Thankyou.

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>Comment By: Jeff Myers (jeffm2501)
Date: 2011-07-30 12:57

Message:
If we can detect cheats on the server we can prevent the cheater from
sending the messages with the cheat and then they won't be cheating.

This is all part of the simulation cleanup, see roadmap for more details,
http://my.bzflag.org/w/Development_RoadMap

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Comment By: Sean Morrison (brlcad)
Date: 2007-08-29 21:24

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For suspicious activity, no there really is not.  There is only patterns
of subtle behavior, you can learn to recognize tell-tale signs that are
very often indicators of cheating, but it's not absolute.  Maybe nine times
out of ten you might be right, but you'd be wrong enough of the time that
it's often not reliable.

That said, there is much more detection that could be added to the server,
but that is simply on-going work and will also never be 100% accurate.  As
more of the game logic is checked in the server, players using more of the
"blatent" cheats will get caught and they can be prevented, but the very
subtle cheats are also subtle on the programming side to the point that
they're behavior is no different than someone on a different network
connection.

The best advice that can be given right now is to just learn from other
admins/owners/cops what signs they look for, learn to follow other players
in observer mode (as some cheats are visible in observer mode), and check
for server updates or plugins that help with cheat detection.

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