On many public servers cheaters get banned by admins but they come back with a different name or different IP. Some admins resort to banning related IP Address ranges but occasionally this blocks clean players as well and is not an effective solution in presence of proxies anyways. I know that sometimes even clean players use aimbots on a server when there are no admins around just to piss people off. As such there is no effective mechanism to circumvent this dilemma (MOHAA history is the witness).
Now you guys might have already thought about it and may have dumped it as being not possible but still I would like to hear specially from James / Razo about:
1. To add a string (some function) in MOHAA.exe which sends BIOS ID (or Motherboard ID) to the MOHAA_SERVER.exe. (We know that there are already some variants of MOHAA.exe like the one with which we can record demos)
2. To tweak MOHAA_SERVER.exe (Reborn patch) in a way that it only allows connections from that MOHAA.exe and upon failures sends a message to download MOHAA.exe from let's say foo.com
3. Admins should be able to ban based on that unique BIOS ID so that even IP change will keep cheaters banned. This way only server Admins would need to have updated reborn patch and pretty soon cheaters will be rooted out.
Is it possible?