0000478: Vote-kick causing the permanent ban

Notes
(0002089) SpiltCoffee (reporter) 2013-12-15 15:27 edited on: 2013-12-15 15:27	Appears to be caused by vote kicks launched by the server against players it believes to be cheating. The code currently does not handle server initiated vote kicks in a manner consistent with how it handles player initiated vote kicks. This results in the first player to press F12 on a server initiated vote kick to appear as the (incorrect) entity to have launched it. This also results in the weird characters appearing in the reason for the vote kick, as the player's client would not have provided a reason back to the server, and so (I think) the server prints garbage data, not knowing what else to do. Possible solution would be to ensure server initiated vote kicks setup all related variables correctly.

(0002091) Szaman (reporter) 2013-12-16 00:30	But this player (Magnum from the mentioned above forum thread) has just joined the game. And he is not "hacker". Maybe there was some network problems (lags, packet flood, etc.) that made server think that he is hacking. But... I still don't understand that mechanism - if it was the server who initiated the kick, then why there was a nick of currently playing player as the "source" of the kick? I mean this fragment: 13-12-13 11:03:24 .:Ma9NuM:. joining game (84.205.190.134:64900) HWID:2D635128F0C 13-12-13 11:03:28 kOSMICZNY KUTAS started votekick against .:Ma9NuM:. - Reason:R^C <FC>^X 13-12-13 11:03:29 .:Ma9NuM:. has been kicked and permanently banned (Vote Kicked by Server) I've also found that this reason is the same as "R ü" (but the viewer has displayed it differently).

(0002092) SpiltCoffee (reporter) 2013-12-16 01:47	"if it was the server who initiated the kick, then why there was a nick of currently playing player as the "source" of the kick?" That is the inconsistency I was referring to. The server does not correctly initialise everything to do with vote kicking when it decides to launch a vote kick at a player. The random characters in the reason provided is not actually the bug itself.

(0002289) ExHunter (developer) 2014-09-06 23:49	Please check if it will be fixed in the upcoming 1.6.8 beta. And if other bugs related to voting occurs.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2013-12-14 20:10	Szaman	New Issue
2013-12-15 01:26	Bistoufly	Priority	high => immediate
2013-12-15 01:26	Bistoufly	Status	new => acknowledged
2013-12-15 15:27	SpiltCoffee	Note Added: 0002089
2013-12-15 15:27	SpiltCoffee	Note Edited: 0002089	View Revisions
2013-12-16 00:30	Szaman	Note Added: 0002091
2013-12-16 01:47	SpiltCoffee	Note Added: 0002092
2013-12-19 13:11	SpiltCoffee	Assigned To	=> SpiltCoffee
2013-12-19 13:11	SpiltCoffee	Status	acknowledged => assigned
2014-04-02 17:38	homerofgods	Status	assigned => confirmed
2014-04-04 00:21	Shoozza	Assigned To	SpiltCoffee =>
2014-08-18 14:29	ExHunter	Relationship added	has duplicate 0000554
2014-09-06 23:49	ExHunter	Note Added: 0002289
2014-09-06 23:49	ExHunter	Assigned To	=> ExHunter
2014-09-06 23:49	ExHunter	Status	confirmed => feedback
2014-10-06 03:55	ExHunter	Status	feedback => resolved
2014-10-06 03:55	ExHunter	Resolution	open => fixed