IPLOG - love it or hate it

[Baker]

Do you like ProQuake/QRack's iplog feature and the effect that iplog has on the game? Or do you feel the opposite or somewhere in-between.

ProQuake has had a feature called iplog for years which helps identify anonymous players, figuring out who they really are.

To some degree, it added some -- for a lack of a better word --- "accountability" to the game where someone using a bot or being really uncool could instantly be identified by the average player.

On the other hand, it makes it really hard to play anonymously.

The Shmack RA server and the practice mode server don't display IPs at all, making anonymous play there possible.

IPLOG ... love it? hate it? somewhere in the middle?

[Bank]

It doesnt really affect me, so I dont bother with it.

[Canadian*Sniper]

I find IPLOG helpful whenever Baker is around

[Monster]

I love it - it has been helping me identify many mysterious anonyomous players.

[L3ftisM]

i'm too lazy to put it in my command line.

[Net-Tyme]

LOVE/HATE it. Sometimes it doesn't pull up the player which I hate. And I mostly only look when something is said or done to make me look. Could I live w/o it.. yes. I used to be anal and keep track of everyones IP's. Now... I don't care.. If I don't like the game.. I will move on and find a better one.

[Baker]

i'm too lazy to put it in my command line.

I'm too lazy to type in the console. Until a couple of weeks ago, I hadn't realized I had played numerous games with you. :d :d

[Mindf!3ldzX]

-iplog is honestly a great function , but annoying as hell.

sometimes I shows up at Shmack:26000 incognito , doesnt last very long though.

typically a knight in shining -iplog horror says " Hi Mindz ! =) "

no big deal,I'm friends with everyone.

[Monster]

Once you get a giant IPLOG, you can identify anyone basically.

[Net-Tyme]

-iplog is honestly a great function , but annoying as hell.

sometimes I shows up at Shmack:26000 incognito , doesnt last very long though.

typically a knight in shining -iplog horror says " Hi Mindz ! =) "

no big deal,I'm friends with everyone.

See.. I don't do that. I will say hi to the name your using. I feel if someone comes in under a different name they are just looking for a quiet game. The most they get is a Hi unless they add to it.

[Canadian*Sniper]

I get a "hi" almost everytime I visit Shmack:d

[Monster]

I don't. I usually get, "oh look its the asshole". or "hey shitstain". and of course surfer girl uses some of her lame binds all the time about me. They all hate me because I supposedly "bot"

[Canadian*Sniper]

you telling me you're not a bot?

[Monster]

That wasn't the point of my post. The point was to say that I never get a friendly hello. Unless on a very RARE occassion Tical or one of the other el1t3 players is on the server.

[spectre]

I think you're all a bunch of fucking women for even CARING enough about who you're playing with to dig into an iplog just to uncover their super-ultra-secret identity. Even if you find out who the guy is, you're still identifying him as his ALIAS in quake.

Where's the accountability gained from this system again? It's not like it tells you his name, address, and phone number.

I find that my ip address is often not on ANYONES iplog, and I feel cheated if I join a server and a minimum of four people don't go "who are you?" after JUST enough time for them to check their iplog and draw a blank.

I'm there anonymously because I don't want to talk and I just want to play without anyone bothering me for any reason.

Is this system from the same people who inserted "tell people how much damage they did when they hit someone" into CA+ and didn't even make it an option? They're clearly a bunch of geniuses just spilling over with great ideas.


Play the fucking game and stop being babies.