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UT2004 does that. And they made it even worse recently.
Ut2004 has a global ban system, because EVERYTHING is run off a master server, they can ban your GUID and you cant play online (and they were doing it a lot at release). Now not as much.
BUT - there was a mod called UTAN that you could run on your server. UTAN was like UT Admin Notification or something. It was like a banlist. To get people's GUID on the UTAN list (which updated daily or something) it was VERY EASY. This didnt really bother me because our team or any other competitive teams never used it. (we just did utcomp). I mean someone from our team even got on UTAN, and he was pretty good (pyrogenix from lcd if you know). So it was like a banlist for everyone like WC3. Smart people didnt use it. Pubs used it to keep out hackers. Pretty decent. Nothing wrong.
THEN - Epic decides to INCLUDE UTAN into the new patch. So now UTAN can be turned on for ANY server, and since a ton of servers used it almost EVERYONE kept getting banned from servers. (competitive ut community is like at war with the noob pubbers. i dont get it, but we would ALWAYS love raping pubs and talking AMSAP (As much shit as possible)). So they we all got banned from utan. and then ladders started ENFORCING UTAN BECAUSE IT WAS OFFICIAL.. AND WE WERE BANNED.
Absolutley terrible crap. They took those rules down a little while later. But making UTAN official just pissed me off. It is a global banlist.
Ut2004 has a global ban system, because EVERYTHING is run off a master server, they can ban your GUID and you cant play online (and they were doing it a lot at release). Now not as much.
BUT - there was a mod called UTAN that you could run on your server. UTAN was like UT Admin Notification or something. It was like a banlist. To get people's GUID on the UTAN list (which updated daily or something) it was VERY EASY. This didnt really bother me because our team or any other competitive teams never used it. (we just did utcomp). I mean someone from our team even got on UTAN, and he was pretty good (pyrogenix from lcd if you know). So it was like a banlist for everyone like WC3. Smart people didnt use it. Pubs used it to keep out hackers. Pretty decent. Nothing wrong.
THEN - Epic decides to INCLUDE UTAN into the new patch. So now UTAN can be turned on for ANY server, and since a ton of servers used it almost EVERYONE kept getting banned from servers. (competitive ut community is like at war with the noob pubbers. i dont get it, but we would ALWAYS love raping pubs and talking AMSAP (As much shit as possible)). So they we all got banned from utan. and then ladders started ENFORCING UTAN BECAUSE IT WAS OFFICIAL.. AND WE WERE BANNED.
Absolutley terrible crap. They took those rules down a little while later. But making UTAN official just pissed me off. It is a global banlist.