courgette/big-brother-bot — Issue #51: allow to choose if B3 should ban with game server banlist or punkbuster
Author: courgette
Created: 2011-12-17 18:45:25+00:00
State: open
Labels: BF3

[Mariodu62](http://forum.bigbrotherbot.net/profile/?u=4035) [requested](http://forum.bigbrotherbot.net/bf3b3-beta-board/is-it-possible-to-ban-by-pb/msg31195/#msg31195) that B3 can also ban using punkbuster.

Going a bit further, B3 could provide the choice of banning (and tempbanning) with the game server banlist only, punkbuster only or both.

I suppose that controlling punkbuster is a bit less reliable as all communications between B3 and punkbuster are to be relayed by the game server. The game server admin protocol is not able to reply with the punkbuster command results so we have to assume it went well :s

In order to avoid the situation where a game server admin chose to ban only using punkbuster and that punkbuster fails to ban (or tempban) a player, it would be safer to also issue a kick using the game server just in case.

unbanning should try to unban the player on all system whatever the ban agent choice.