Ezio wrote:Probably we can use something like local ban user, if username or ip match he won't see my hosted game vice versa. since it's local so player can add people to the list by himself. like squelch
Yes excellent idea. To be able to block by username, mandatory name registration would be required or it wouldn't work. And I would think the ban list would have to stay local to the Host because of the last sentence in you hypothesis.
Ezio wrote:Heavy network?,probably if player had lot of banned users in his list
Since this is viewing the specific lobby game and not a connection to the host I don't see the problem. I would imagine the banned list would only have to use the IP at the current time the banned username is seen. There would be no need for it to keep track of previous IP's used. So I cannot see it being that many rules. If it is an issue, allow rules are much better (based on the current banned at the moment IP's).
So that leaves us with 3 problems.
1) How to sell everyone on name registration, I think its been rejected in the past.
2) How to get everyone to register. Some will choose not to register, mainly new users.
3) How to make this friendly to new players that do not host. Hosts will add new players without rank to their filters leaving them out of games.
[quote="Ezio"]Probably we can use something like local ban user, if username or ip match he won't see my hosted game vice versa. since it's local so player can add people to the list by himself. like squelch[/quote]
Yes excellent idea. To be able to block by username, mandatory name registration would be required or it wouldn't work. And I would think the ban list would have to stay local to the Host because of the last sentence in you hypothesis.
[quote="Ezio"]Heavy network?,probably if player had lot of banned users in his list[/quote]
Since this is viewing the specific lobby game and not a connection to the host I don't see the problem. I would imagine the banned list would only have to use the IP at the current time the banned username is seen. There would be no need for it to keep track of previous IP's used. So I cannot see it being that many rules. If it is an issue, allow rules are much better (based on the current banned at the moment IP's).
So that leaves us with 3 problems.
1) How to sell everyone on name registration, I think its been rejected in the past.
2) How to get everyone to register. Some will choose not to register, mainly new users.
3) How to make this friendly to new players that do not host. Hosts will add new players without rank to their filters leaving them out of games.