Nice one Bob! 

Now at least those server titles looks less angry
Guess being met halfway is a good result or a least an improvement.

On a very similar topic, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when (as you mentioned earlier in this thread Bob) I saw for the first time yesterday that the TiagoPinto server is back up.

Guess we can't win them all 

You guys are missing the point. It's not the offensive server title, rather it's falsely populating the 'populated servers' list as it's reporting players that don't exist by manipulating the protocol..

Its not nice either way and unfortunately we are having the problem with some servers showing population where it isn't for ages. On the other hand such servers are usually not visited very often anymore after the people noticed that.

As for banning, even if done there wouldn't be a final solution since it's not very difficult to spoof an IP either. Also, banning an entire range however could result in banning other server(s) as well, so this is no real solution for the problem.
Of course, could add some kind of spam protection and language filter, but everyone researching this topic will notice sooner or later that it is close to impossible to catch everything.
Example (using something harmless ):
Idiot
1d1ot
idi0t
ldloT
...
you can see, even with such a short and simple word there is almost an endless amount of variants- you get the point.

Of course could try to combine with something already existing, such as SpamAssassin, but even that is limited and the effort to make use of that is plain overkill. Not speaking of that we would have an entirely different form of usage here than usually used in f.e. E-Mails.

As said already above, the number of real options is limited.
In a more permanent case like here, the only chance I see is to contact the abuse center of the server's host and asking for taking it down. Since commercial hosts usually take care about their reputation they should take this serious.

besides that I think that the idea is not bad, this could be faked also, but it should make it at least a bit harder. We are using already an advanced masterserver system (333networks) and I will relay this idea to Darkelarius & Polyverse.
But why so hostile? We are on the same side here. If you have nothing better to do then have fun writing yet another master...man man.

happy to hear and happy I got it wrong

well as said will relay this idea and we will see what they say, but they are great guys, so I am very positive about it. Will give feedback asap.

BrakeDanceJ wrote on Feb 9^th, 2015 at 7:44pm:

Should be rather useluss as one can fake that too. And this feature just sounds like "abuse me for DOS". And even if that would work, one can just put some invisible Pawns in the game which get reported as Players.

[]KAOS[]Casey wrote on Feb 10^th, 2015 at 1:31am:


Totally agree, it cannot be "won" but it can be curtailed. As Smirftsch mentioned about the permutations of the word "idiot" alone, yes, it could prove insane in the amount of permutations that would be necessary to put in all such things as a filter.

To me, it's not the words in that server title (either the original ones or the current ones) and it's not the amount of "blank" servers and it's certainly not to do with the player count.

For me it will be a sad day if I fire up the game, hit Multiplayer and see 7 populated servers: 6 of which are "complaining" about the other one    

That is pretty much putting it the best way I can without losing my own forum integrity