MTA serial numbers and PC component upgrades

[JokerZ]

Hi again!

This month I created a topic about ban appeal where I listed my concern about being banned cause of spoofer (never heard of them before).

Asked chatGPT about that, and it replied that MTA serial numbers are partially based on hardware setup, and changes to hardware can trigger MTA anti-cheat to ban you for spoofing (cause serial number changed).

Can someone confirm that this is true? I added a second drive - 4TB m.2 NVMe - couple of weeks before trying to play MTA again (moved all games to the new drive) but received a message with a ban. I'm asking cause moderator fully ignored part about hardware change and serial numbers being based on hardware, so I got no answer to that part.

Of course, I'm not going to remove my SSD every time I want to play MTA, but if that serial/hardware thing is a real thing, it has to be addressed and fixed somehow cause that's kind of dumb to ban people just because they changed their pc components .

Best regards,
Vlad

 

[Vinyard]

Hi,

We won't go into deeper details on how our anticheat and/or serials work other than to recommend you give the following wiki page a read: https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Serial

As you may note from the following sentence, hardware does indeed play a role, but is not the sole component upon which serials are based on:

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Serials are the most accurate form of identifying players that MTA has. However, you shouldn't rely on them entirely: players may change their serial, although this is very difficult to do due to MTA AC protections (serials aren't only based on hardware, but more).

Hopefully this answers your questions and/or doubts.