BAN.CFG not working in 1.99! HELLLP!

[DurbanPoison-VoD 10]

Hi there,

I've been hosting a CWA 1.99 server however recently noticed a few players are using a pirated version of the game (PlayerID=4680502). AS far as I'm concerned, anyone who isn't willing to pay $5 for this game does not deserve to play on the server! I manually added that (their) player number to the ban.cfg file in Arma.CWA folder however it does work! The keep on joining anyway?!

People with their player ID's in the ban.cfg are not being prevented from joining the server.... a lot of these players know VoD server does not support pirated versions of game... so they will make a point to get on and grief other players. The argument I hear all the time is... "well it was free back in may and i missed that so I downloaded this copy... etc. I keep explaining that just because a product is free for ONE day... does not make it free for everyday after that offer. But this seems lost on many players. I've been accused of hating Russians because of the rules enforced on the server... which is not true. I hate people too cheap to support BIS, regardless of their national origin lol.

Back to the problem at hand... I've google searched for other ways to try prevent these players from joining (such as scripted server command inside the missions) but can't find anything useful... as I assume the ban.cfg is supposed to take care of this! Except in my case it's simply not working. Oddly some banned players (with other not pirated ID's) are still blocked - but it appears inconsistent from what I can tell... :rolleyes:

Is this a common problem? Kind of useless administrating a server when the rules can't be enforced. I don't want to password the server and prevent other players (who own legitimate copies of the game) from being able to play at VoD.

Does anyone know how we can be keep'in these here pirates away? AARRRGGGHHH!

[Frenzi_ 18]

You mean ban.txt?

[DurbanPoison-VoD 10]

I assumed the suffix .cfg was Required as this was already in folder?... I'll check after work and change to txt and then report back! :)

I'll be stoked if it's that simple a fix!

[RozekPoland 591]

ban.txt is the correct filename

[DurbanPoison-VoD 10]

SOLVED! Thank you guys so much! :)

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