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Minecraft 1.8 banning system help
As you may know, Mojang hope to change minecraft so that players are able to change their usernames.
However this leaves an open door to trollers and 'hackers'.
For those of you who do not know, when you ban a player their username is banned.
Not their ip(unless you use /banip).
Lets say I am banned from a server. The server has banned my username so now I just need to change it then rejoin. Simple as that.
The /banip command will not work since it bans your ip4(correct me if I'm wrong).
Your ip4 will change every once in a while which will allow you to rejoin. Besides that, this will allow 'hackers' to change their ip and join so they don't even have to wait.
Some people are saying that Mojang are doing this just to get money from Minecraft Realms.
You may be thinking that we can just track a player by their new UUID from 1.8 but if Mojang really have done this just for some extra money, then I doubt Mojang will allow servers to check their databases for this information.
Any ideas?
However this leaves an open door to trollers and 'hackers'.
For those of you who do not know, when you ban a player their username is banned.
Not their ip(unless you use /banip).
Lets say I am banned from a server. The server has banned my username so now I just need to change it then rejoin. Simple as that.
The /banip command will not work since it bans your ip4(correct me if I'm wrong).
Your ip4 will change every once in a while which will allow you to rejoin. Besides that, this will allow 'hackers' to change their ip and join so they don't even have to wait.
Some people are saying that Mojang are doing this just to get money from Minecraft Realms.
You may be thinking that we can just track a player by their new UUID from 1.8 but if Mojang really have done this just for some extra money, then I doubt Mojang will allow servers to check their databases for this information.
Any ideas?
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This post is invalid i think
And your open door for hackers/trollers is also not possible
And your open door for hackers/trollers is also not possible
I feel this may have a big impact on bukkit.
I would imagine it will not be easy to code a plugin that will check Mojangs databases for a players UUID instead of just checking their username.
Because of this there may be less plugins developed for Bukkit 1.8 since it will become a lot harder to create plugins.
This may stop people using bukkit for their server which could become a big issue for the people who develop bukkit.
I would imagine it will not be easy to code a plugin that will check Mojangs databases for a players UUID instead of just checking their username.
Because of this there may be less plugins developed for Bukkit 1.8 since it will become a lot harder to create plugins.
This may stop people using bukkit for their server which could become a big issue for the people who develop bukkit.
In reply,
Using the UUID is probably whats gonna have to be done. I had never thought of this problem until you had brought it up.
Some plugins already keep track of players by their UUID, such as PermissionsEx.
I think that it would be cool(if this UUID system is relied on) to have bukkit automatically convert the UUID for you, such as;
When you type /ban USERNAME into console, or game. It would do /ban UUID. Of course implying that this system is implemented.
There are already Username To UUID Converters, so making a function like this should be easy.
Using the UUID is probably whats gonna have to be done. I had never thought of this problem until you had brought it up.
Some plugins already keep track of players by their UUID, such as PermissionsEx.
I think that it would be cool(if this UUID system is relied on) to have bukkit automatically convert the UUID for you, such as;
When you type /ban USERNAME into console, or game. It would do /ban UUID. Of course implying that this system is implemented.
There are already Username To UUID Converters, so making a function like this should be easy.
