Strilanc
Veteran Scripter
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You may have noticed this recently. I certainly have.
You host a game, and when the screen shows up there's already a player joined. Or maybe you refreshed and an instant later a player joins. They don't talk, they don't respond, /whereis-ing them shows they are not in the game. They just sit there, download the map, and then leave.
Congratulations, you just had time wasted by a bot. I believe it watches the games list and tries to download maps it doesn't have. The player names might even be lifted from observed host names.
*edit*
The fake player connections come from 69.162.111.178.
Doing a reverse whois shows the IP apparently originates from Dallas, Texas. But it could just be a proxy for all I know.
You host a game, and when the screen shows up there's already a player joined. Or maybe you refreshed and an instant later a player joins. They don't talk, they don't respond, /whereis-ing them shows they are not in the game. They just sit there, download the map, and then leave.
Congratulations, you just had time wasted by a bot. I believe it watches the games list and tries to download maps it doesn't have. The player names might even be lifted from observed host names.
*edit*
The fake player connections come from 69.162.111.178.
Doing a reverse whois shows the IP apparently originates from Dallas, Texas. But it could just be a proxy for all I know.
