[KnifeLemon]

this plugin replaces the player's ping.



Convar

sm_fpp_enable - FPP plugin on = 1 , off = 0 sm_fpp_ping - get fake ping to all player Enable = -1 ~ 999 , Disabled = None

sm_fpp ping a -1 value ping is '1023'
Decreases by 1 from the value of -2.
-2 value ping is '1022'

[Mitchell]

You uploaded the source and the complied version and a zip file?

[KnifeLemon]

Originally Posted by Mitchell You uploaded the source and the complied version and a zip file?

yea

im uploaded the .sp , .smx , .zip file

[Mitchell]

Since you dont have any dependencies you dont need to upload the .smx.
And the zip file for just the config is pointless.
There is alot to be fixed on this:
1. Hooking PrethinkPost on each client then looping through them it dumb and a waste of resources.
2. Your 'JoinCheck' is a nested loop.

[Leonardo]

Valve Politics: faking (non-real) players' ping isn't good.
But faking real players' ping is fine?

[Dr. Greg House]

Yes. Faking pings is "illegal" because it makes the real players assume that the bots aren't actually bots.
However faking pings of a real player can have two uses:
-You are the admin of a local server and want to conceal that
-You are the admin and have a bad ping and don't want players to constantly try and kick you for it

[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House Yes. Faking pings is "illegal" because it makes the real players assume that the bots aren't actually bots. However faking pings of a real player can have two uses: -You are the admin of a local server and want to conceal that -You are the admin and have a bad ping and don't want players to constantly try and kick you for it

This will make everyone's ping the same from a cvar.

[Dr. Greg House]

His question was more generic.
But yes, I don't know why someone would use this plugin.

[RedSword]

Removed .smx attachment as it is not needed.

[RedSword]

Interesting fact :

iPing seems to be using 10 bits :

1024==0 ; = BOT on bots and 0 on humans.

So players can get from 0 to 1023 ping. But you can't get a BOT with 0 ping (in pure Sourcepawn/Sourcemod I would expect).

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I do not see this being approved, as you can modify bots' ping, which goes against Valve's Policy of truth.

And even modifying players ping is wrong :

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthr...13#post1610013

We all know that some server operators run mods specifically designed to falsify information sent to [...] and to their players. These mods inaccurately report the player count and whether players are human or not. They conceal that significant modifications to gameplay have been made. This is detrimental to players' experience.

and

Forging or modifying network communications used to describe server properties to the backend or directly to clients.

I consider changing the ping you're having with the server to be "modifying network communications used to describe server properties".

Red