0001485: Preventing Crashes Via sv_cheats

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0001485

Zandronum

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2013-09-05 22:57

2014-07-15 23:00

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legion

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crash

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closed

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won't fix

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0001485: Preventing Crashes Via sv_cheats

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usually staff members hear about people crashing servers, and the usual method people take to accomplish this task is to spam summon <monster> or other sorts of commands to end up crashing the server. adding a delay into this would reduce or even remove the complaints received from server owners.

the best way to introduce this is to put in a server variable. perhaps something like "sv_cheattime" and a number in a value of seconds

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(0007119) Qent (updater) 2013-09-05 23:34	sv_cheattime could default to 1.0 and we could still disable it for testing/debugging.

(0007120) Dusk (developer) 2013-09-06 14:11	Honestly, I don't think we should waste time catering for public and apparently unmoderated cheat servers. They're kind of begging to get flooded like this. sv_cheats servers are a special case where the server trusts the client with things like summon/give/... so security kind of flies out of the window inevitably.

(0009330) Watermelon (developer) 2014-06-14 17:48	sv_cheats on a public server is asking for it. So many malicious things can go wrong.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2013-09-05 22:57	legion	New Issue
2013-09-05 23:34	Qent	Note Added: 0007119
2013-09-06 14:11	Dusk	Note Added: 0007120
2014-06-14 17:48	Watermelon	Note Added: 0009330
2014-06-14 17:48	Watermelon	Status	new => closed
2014-06-14 17:48	Watermelon	Resolution	open => not fixable
2014-07-15 23:00	Dusk	Resolution	not fixable => won't fix

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