[bfprog] PB Kick

[ScratchMonkey]

--On Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:20 PM -0400 Pokerface 
<pokerface at tacticalgamer.com> wrote:

> What is amiss with the PunkBuster kick that it is not yet supported in the
> mm_utils module? Do Python and PB not play well together?

It's used by BF2CC, but the author reports that PB output is not returned 
to Python so one can't tell if a PB command is actually successful. Score 
another point in EA's screwing of server admins and instead focusing on eye 
candy.

The author also reports that other issues that adversely affect rcon and 
the remote manager won't be addressed by the 1.03 patch. For instance, I'm 
betting we won't see the ability to change the password on the fly, a 
feature needed for reserved slots. (They claim to be implementing reserved 
slots, but who knows what they'll come up with.) We probably also won't see 
a reliable way to "kill" players from rcon, which is needed for reliable 
team switching. (If you kill a player in a vehicle, you risk crashing the 
server or turning the player into an undead zombie.) Then there's less 
critical capabilities like being able to move a player to and from a squad 
or the commander position, and creating squads, which would all be nice for 
fast tournament switching and for switching everyone's sides for each round 
while maintaining squad structure.