No-Script Option in Private Groups

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It's currently deployed on all servers except for Radius and Chord. Since it requires a restart, I'll wait to deploy there until the servers are near empty.

Leagues have recently reached out to development concerned that some players are using what those leagues consider cheating scripts for their league rules. Detecting all of these different scripts and alerting league officials was not a reasonable solution. So we've worked to add this "no-script" option in Private Groups.

When turned on, this feature attempts to make user scripts and addons impossible to use. All scripts, not just some scripts. This was how the solution had to work. We are not implementing a white/list black list because it wouldn't be a maintainable solution and probably isn't technically feasible.

While this solution aims to disable the ability to use scripts, given the "hackibility" of browsers (usually a good thing), it might be beatable. If some of our more savvy players happen to figure out a way around it, we'd appreciate letting us know so we can attempt to close the hole if possible.

Those who use scripts in public games will not be affected. However it's important to note that if you jump into a private game with no-script turned on and haven't disabled your scripts, the scripts will very likely throw errors and break TagPro for you. It depends on how the userscript is written.

Some league players have expressed concerned over losing the live player position add on. I understand this concern and plan on working on a proper tagpro option in your profile to turn off lag-smoothing. This would have the same effect as live player position. I'll begin work on that today.

Also, max ban length has been changed to one month.

Thanks everyone!

Posted Aug 7, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC · edited

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