Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2011 11:22:04 GMT -5
hi guys,
I used to play at QAW server a long time ago.
recently I got a new computer and felt like playing ET again with a decent configuration. Tried to download it from many different mirrors, and after every installation I only got kicked from PB enabled servers, with the message "Empty CDKey Not Allowed".
I did a big research and only found out an apparently poor solution: created an extension-less file named etkey and left it blank.
With that I managed to connect to PB enabled servers.
After a few days playing only on QAW server I realized my guid/etkey (I don't know a lot about this topic) wasn't single, if that is even possible.
Many times I joined the server, much more then 6 hours after my last login and had lots of XP and rankings. As my computer is only used by me, I imagine there's someone else that mysteriously has the same ETkey as mine OR this solution I found is so generic that everyone that does it has the same ETkey (sorry guys, I have no idea how this works..)
And more, sometimes while playing at QAW server, I get kicked due to "Duplicated guid". I don't know, maybe that's cause my "clone" is trying to play the same time as me?
so guys, if there's another way to fix my ETkey problem.. because I think that I'm blocking someone to play and he is doing the same to me
by the way I'd like to honor voodoo (et-pl) for being so patient with me on the server and giving me priceless hints for me to quit shooting like a psycho.. helped me a lot bro
cheers,
niandra laDes
I used to play at QAW server a long time ago.
recently I got a new computer and felt like playing ET again with a decent configuration. Tried to download it from many different mirrors, and after every installation I only got kicked from PB enabled servers, with the message "Empty CDKey Not Allowed".
I did a big research and only found out an apparently poor solution: created an extension-less file named etkey and left it blank.
With that I managed to connect to PB enabled servers.
After a few days playing only on QAW server I realized my guid/etkey (I don't know a lot about this topic) wasn't single, if that is even possible.
Many times I joined the server, much more then 6 hours after my last login and had lots of XP and rankings. As my computer is only used by me, I imagine there's someone else that mysteriously has the same ETkey as mine OR this solution I found is so generic that everyone that does it has the same ETkey (sorry guys, I have no idea how this works..)
And more, sometimes while playing at QAW server, I get kicked due to "Duplicated guid". I don't know, maybe that's cause my "clone" is trying to play the same time as me?
so guys, if there's another way to fix my ETkey problem.. because I think that I'm blocking someone to play and he is doing the same to me
by the way I'd like to honor voodoo (et-pl) for being so patient with me on the server and giving me priceless hints for me to quit shooting like a psycho.. helped me a lot bro
cheers,
niandra laDes