PB should be standard.
i was going make a long post ...BUT nah
and besides no ones yet mentiond that even pure and pb cant stop some cheats which are execution based, which are used asthe quake 2 exe file, so nothing stops them.
so you have pb which will stop some cheats, lags can be awkward to noobs and could be the factor in noobs not playing on some servers and old players having trouble coming back maybe, pb is down to discretion.
but good idea i agree with damnation pb could be on for clan wars, maybe turn it on just for a minute
Punk buster sucks well i dont mind it but does have alot of lagg and punk -buster servers dont have people on them....people is good to have....any way i have most all the cheaters banned now, and dont know when the last time i had to bann someone..pluss have good Mr.,admin that help admin when im not around like night time....I have learned alot about running server from people that started before..like Bro-Admins and they are some of busyest servers....AS far as CW and other Clan type games pb is good....but i would like to bring as many new peolpe as can bee and P{unk-buster makes it hard for them....and if some has to hunt me down once in awhile to kick some one NP happy to do it
Well PB haven't prevented new guys to come to the server, and when we notice pb foprce spec on them it oly takes 2 minutes to explain them what to do and how to do it, also I want to let you know that pb don't lag you as others claim, this server gives me the same ping as it was when didn't have pb on and I don't suffer of any lag at all so this is just some kind of missconception.
P.S. when I started playing quake some years ago and pr 1.32 came I never had a hard time to update or have my pb working properly, jsut was matter of hours before someone helped me, so that's no excuse either, when you want to play and find that have some problem you'll try to find help to solve it and be able to play again.
meybe motod how to do it
and about pb lags, dont know when u turn on it but last fights on thi server i sufer bad lag, and on first games ping was high but smoth, now its no smoth at all
Well on first game pb was enabled as usual so if you have lag now must be related to something else, as I said I bever had lag on any pb server unless it is too far away from me.
quake dont give you right pingIf your server is using PunkBuster, you may want to try these settings in your generic.cfg or server.cfg:
PB_SV_AutoSs 0 // Set to 1 (default is if you want the PB server to regularly retrieve screen shots
Screenshots are known for causing lag due to the screenshots happening frequently and eating up bandwidth - causing the server to access the hard drive everytime.
The Quake 3 engine seems to have a problem calculating ping properly at /cl_maxpackets 100 so your ping may appear to have gone up slightly, but nothing has really changed
PB_SV_AutoSs is set to 0 as always have been, as I said I have the same ping I had when slip used to run the server with non pb.
Screenshots are known for causing lag due to the screenshots happening frequently and eating up bandwidth - causing the server to access the hard drive everytime.
Of course PB should be used for CW's. If other admins don't want to run PB thats their perogative. I enjoy not having people try to hunt me down to go kick some cheater when I'm busy. Having PB on has been great for me and I wanted to start this thread to counter some of the false beliefs like PB lags players etc... If no one else in this community wants to enable PB thats cool.
I won't ever turn mine off. The worst I have suffered is having to explain to newcomers how to update their PB. Peace out Quakerz.