Re: [Quake-devel] patches to fix polyblend nazism

[Forest `L. H. <ha...@ga...>]

> > Quake-C is server-only.  The server can force the client to run commands
> > by "stuffing" them to the client.  But recompiling the Quake-C is not a
> > particularly convenient way to set preferences (besides, hardcoding is
> > morally wrong :-), and the server would have to constantly stuff commands
> > to keep the client from just reverting the changes.
> 
> Didn't know QC was serverside...shows you how much I've gotten my own hands
> dirty..(But I dare ya to find a situation where I complain ;-) )
> 
> Oughtn't there be a setting for how offen to stuff the commands? (The phrase
> 'shove it' comes to mind)

No, just lock them on the QF client, because if someone is using another
client or edited the QF client (even just with a hex editor), they would
just rename the cvars in their client, and thus ignore all control by
the server...  Therefore repeated stuffings only causes an unnecessary
hinderence (bandwidth drain) to legit players, and no effect on
cheaters.  This is akin to the "disconnect" stuffcmd based kicking in
original quake, cheaters just renamed their disconnect command... 
Eventually the QC mods started using SVC_DISCONNECT instead, and no one
has hacked around that one yet :)

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