UTrustedPlayer service

The mission statement

UTP is dedicated to the continuation and protection of Unreal Tournament online servers. We will give the everyday admin the tools to help defend their servers from cheaters, lamers, and those they would like to block from playing. UTP will also serve as a clearing house for those identified as cheating and those submissions will form the basis of a world-wide banning system. If you cheat and get caught on one server then all UTP network servers will be notified and you will lose rights on those too.

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and a brief synopsis of the service

Background: UTP is a collaborative project among several coders with input and support from multiple UT server admins across just as many gametypes. In short we just got tired of cheaters and did something about it.

What does it do?

In short UTP provides a database of cheaters and compares all players joining your server to this database. If their data matches anyone in the DB they are forcibly removed from the server and given a case number. This number will correspond to a ban entry and is used to appeal the ban. Our site will be set up to deal with all global ban appeals so as to free up the server staff from this duty.

UTP also has some player-scanning features that help plug the gaps that ACE currently has. This information is available to the registered admins who use our service and they will receive support in its usage.

How does it work?

Not telling. Suffice to say players can change names, IP’s, use a proxy, tunnel, or any sort of method to obscure their identity and they will still be seen as who they really are. UTP uses known and unknown methods to ID players and provide data on their true person. If you are in the database for cheating, you won’t play on UTP servers.

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UTP is modeled directly upon the successful service that UTAN was and seeks to bring those same tools to the UT community. Multiple server owners have contributed to the development, some overtly and some requested anonymity. Suffice to say our database is now the most comprehensive (by far) cheater list that exists.

Every ban is backed up by either an ACE log, package scan or screenshot (sometimes all three) and those logs will be presented if the player appeals the ban. We do not directly ban anyone, we only gather submitted bans from known server admins and when they provide proof we will add those players to the database.

We have now opened registrations for the UTP service. This is a release candidate but will be considered beta for a short period until feedback is returned from the various servers. Provided there are no major issues this will be the version used.

Signups and usage are free, the database is comprehensive, and we are very happy with the end result of all this work.

Please don't hesitate to submit your ACE catches even if you are not an adopter of the service. You'll only be helping your fellow admin.

To find out more please create an account at http://www.utrustedplayer.com/forum/ and one of the staff will walk you through the process.

Thank you for your interest!

The UTrustedPlayer service is now fully functional and working beautifully. We took a little bit longer finalizing it than we thought it was going to be, but the release product is something we are quite proud of. Among the improvements:

-Bans are immediately 'live' across all UTP member servers as soon as they are accepted
-Cheaters are now kicked much faster and they don't come back
-Emergency ban procedures protect all the UTP servers from someone trying to hack any one of them
-Identifying a cheater protects all your fellow UT servers and admins

If you value a clean game take a moment to consider our service. Installation takes moments, requires no upkeep on your part, and protects your server from hundreds of community identified cheaters, hackers, and malcontents.