No hacking and no advantageous modifications

This should go without explanation. Any hacks, trainers, or modifications to your game that give you an unfair advantage over other players is banned, including, but not limited to:

• Health and armour freezing or regeneration
• Teleporting, jetpacking, or turbo hacks
• Instant reloading
• Hacking weapons or ammunition
• Modifications that remove tear gas particles
• Map modifications
• Aimbots
• Vehicle health hacks
• "Car controller" (cc 1)

No death evading

You may not quit, kill, or intentionally crash VC:MP as you are dying or near death. You may, however, quit after the death message appears in the chatbox (Player1 killed Player2).

Ban evading is strictly forbidden

Joining the server after being banned, or joining the server before a tempban on you has expired will result in you being permanently banned from the event on sight.

No breaching accounts

In conjunction with the above rule, each applying player is granted exactly one account. Any attempt to coerce administrators into resetting a password that is not yours, exploiting the server to join an account that is not yours, or otherwise joining under any nickname under the one you were given will result in a permanent ban.

No spamming

Flooding the chatbox with repeated messages or random garbage, like so:

Player1: SPAM Player1: SPAM Player1: SPAM Player1: SPAM Player1: SPAM

Player1: wefewofewfwae Player1: fwaefaewfawewd Player1: ewdcsadcsd Player1: sdcsaxcdmsa Player1: sdfcas

Is frowned upon and may result in you being muted or kicked.

Glitching is restricted as follows:

Wallglitching allowed only in areas accessible on foot
You may NOT use vehicles such as cars or helicopters to access areas to wallglitch.

Sliding is not allowed
Frequent sliding will result in a tempban or ban from the event, depending on the punishing administrator.

Rocket glitching is banned
Unconditional; you may not rocket glitch at all, especially in any way that prevents you from taking knockback or damage from rockets.

Heli-killing is allowed EXCEPT from under the map
You may heli-kill players from above ground except when heli-killing teammates, which will result in an automatic kill.

Ghost city is banned
If you know what it is, don't use it. If you don't know what it is, it won't be explained to you by staff members, as only those who know what it is would be capable of exploiting it.

No abusing administrative powers

Any attempts from moderators or administrators to use the commands they were entrusted with to give their team or themselves an unfair advantage over opponents or for any purpose other than enforcing these rules will result in demotion and/or a ban from the event.

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As I'm certain anyone reading this thread is aware of, there's a long-standing theory in the VC:MP community that disabling your frame limiter or adjusting your FPS to a higher value causes players to warp for whatever reason. Disabling frame limiter or using FPS hacks to circumvent the limit is oft considered a move comparable to cheating and has been considered ban-worthy if you were caught doing it.

On the topic of frame limiters, this happen earlier today in #VU:
<aXXo> Marcell adjust his FPS to a higher value every time he dies hhhhhhhhh
<[EAF]Alarba> deso was hacking
<[EAF]Alarba> 60fps
<Stormeus> What effect does having frame limiter disabled have on gameplay, though?
<Stormeus> oh no
<Stormeus> a high fps
<Stormeus> whatever shall we do with smooth gameplay
<Stormeus> I honestly want to see a video side-by-side comparison
<Stormeus> Of someone in VC:MP at 30fps
<Stormeus> And at 60fps

Though Deso wasn't adjusting his FPS, I was honestly curious as to whether or not VC:MP's sync caused disabling the frame limiter to cause any sort of distortion or irregularities in combat, so Shadows (heekzs) and I set off to record gameplay to compare different frame rates, the most important being the baseline of 30fps, a laggier 10fps, and a heightened 60fps.

From what I can tell from the videos I recorded, a player running VC:MP at 30fps would see no irregularities between someone playing at 30fps and another playing at 60fps. There was no observable warp that had not been caused by latency, and shooting seemed consistent.

These observations, on top of Charley's analysis on running speed at different frame rates (which also found no measurable difference between 30fps and 60fps) leads me to believe that disabling your frame limiter has absolutely no substantial weight or advantage in gameplay, for several reasons:

Running speed
As mentioned above, players who play at 60fps move at the same speed that players at 30fps move at. Just because there are more frames being drawn in a 1-second interval does not mean that the game itself is running faster. It simply makes your view look much smoother while moving.

Combat and "warp"
Combat animations are not interrupted and there is no warping or stuttering to players with latencies that differ by even a couple hundred milliseconds, even if one player has their frame limiter on and the other person has their frame limiter off, as shown in the video below.

It's my belief that any warp that actually is caused by disabling frame limiter is due to VC:MP sending more information in a one-second period about where the player is and what they're doing, since R2 does not interpolate player movements, animations, and positions in an accurate manner, and simply warps them into place. Since the player is updating their position more frequently, this should actually make it easier to shoot them since the need for lead aim can be reduced by the player's frequent position updates.

Warp may also be caused by players attempting to perform various glitches while running with an increase frame rate, which either makes their glitches less effective as they are updating too frequently to give off the intended effect (see above) or does nothing other than giving the appearance of warping in place.

Network traffic and packet parsing
Because they are running at a higher frame rate, they also parse more incoming packets more frequently, meaning that as long as you're running at an acceptable frame rate with decent latency, combat becomes simpler as lead aim and glitching become less feasible.

Is this concrete? No, and on top of the fact that I'm taking an issue as trivial as whether or not disabling frame limiter affects how you shoot people in a video game seriously enough to write a paper on it is ridiculous in itself, but the idea here it should be something that is looked into more closely before banning people for "frame limiter hacks." (Which, honestly, sounds absolutely absurd in any context whatsoever.)

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Which game are you applying for, VC:MP, SA:MP, LU or all?: All

Nick: Stormeus

Previous Nicks: [VU]Stormeus, [IT]Stormeus

Timezone/Country: America/New York (UTC -4)

Age: 16

Do you speak English? Yes

Time you have played vcmp/samp: >2 years

Previous clans: VU due to inactivity (I'M BACK BAABYYYY), IT due to its disbanding several years ago

Do you use mIRC: da

Why you want to join VU: The same reason I joined in the first place -- I know a lot of VUs and find you lot to be a pretty cool and exciting bunch, even if some of you do get on my nerves at rare times. :P

Favourite weapon: The M60 just because I can't aim with my crappy touchpad

Which VUs do you know: Veteran, Castagna, Charley, aXXo, Thijn, Skirmant (acquainted), ferrari32, Pallazo, Ryne, Eddy, m[D]z, Habla, Las3r, MadKiLLeR, WiLsOn, Shadow, Lazee, tato (acquainted), GrinDBanG, Yuri (acquainted)

Would you be interested in competing in clan wars?: si NO I HAVE TOO MUCH SUCK

Instead of the usual rant, I'm just going to say that I, personally, feel incapable of wearing the [VU] tag anymore. My participation in clan affairs has reduced to nothing, on top of the fact that I still suck at combat.

Because of that, and my reduced activity across VC:MP altogether, I'm leaving VU a (slightly) more skilled individual, rather than bearing a tag that, in my case, bears little to no meaning. I simply do not have the time or energy to keep up anymore.

Stay frosty,
Stormeus

Became extremely bored, wrote an HTTP server using Squirrel sockets over the course of two days. The server supports:

• HTTP requests
• Error handling (sending 500 Internal Server Errors on a script parsing exception)
  
• Query strings (in format of http://server/page/?param1=value1&param2=value2)
• All functions provided by VC:MP Squirrel
• Modules loaded by your scripts
• Writing dynamic pages and static pages from existing files

The purpose of the server is to provide a limited form of providing web services to scripters directly from their game servers, such as a stats panel and remote administration, and is not suitable for forums, transmitting files, and probably some other complex things I couldn't be arsed to script into the server.

I don't anticipate this server script taking off any time in the near future, so I won't be providing much support for it, though it may prove to be useful for any projects I do in the future, and possibly for someone else as well.

Without the example pages provided, the server is 603 lines long.

Download (1.0.0)
http://stormeus.vicelegends.com/SqHTTP.7z