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[MordyT]

Hi all,
It is my day for a bunch of new topics, and to add to the list I have a request.

As you know, B3 is very popular for many games, such as urt and cod4. The issue is, these games use a log file - not 2 way rcon. As such, reading that log file is how B3 works, and more times then not it is done over FTP due to no dedicated box.

Now, for the second part.. many hosts use TCAdmin, which by default is set to ban a IP after x (10 I think) amount of incorrect logins. My host does it after 6.

Knowing that, and knowing B3 will continue to try to connect to the gameserver via FTP, I think B3 should be modified so that after 5 incorrect CONSECUTIVE attempts to connect (the count must be reset once it connects, since you may lose the connection for a second and then it may connect a few seconds later) it dies, sort of like a BF3 server dies after 10 minutes of lost connection.

The error used by TCAdmin (and all FTP software) is 530 - so B3 should only die upon 5 consecutive error 530's...

In addition, B3 should wait 1 minute between each connect attempt as soon as it gets its error 530...

ALSO, B3 needs to recognize error 530 for any of this to work - right now B3 sees it as error 500... which could be anything...

Wow, that is a lot of programming... and it is just a suggestion - so take it as a "if you are bored and want to do something" type of thing...

Questions?