DHCP has more to do with internal networks rather than your broadcasting IP, for example - the IP address of my computer may be anything between 192.168.0.1 - 254, yet the IP address my network uses to communicate with the internet will be something completely different.
That being said, you have a point with VPNs. Although, VPNs are kind of an obscure service which a lot of people don’t even know how to use - and if a lot of exploiters are just kids, I’d imagine they don’t know what VPNs are.
I’ve never heard of HWID - but is it basically a MAC address?
If so, physical (MAC) addresses can be spoofed. Does HWID account for this in some way?
I don’t know the technicality behind HWID, but I’m pretty sure that they’re either hard or impossible to spoof and to actually change them you need a new computer or a new motherboard.
I don’t know anything about this subject in particular, but I feel like any value provided to software by the operating system is susceptible to spoofing and alterations. Even if it’s based on hardware, it’s still little more than a variable in software.
There’s no point to this feature, even if only certain developers had it, it actually gives more power to those malicious users you want to ban.
We wouldn’t want someone messing up and banning their player base, or to have a security flaw that allows such. A way of fixing that would be only making this api available for certain players.
But IP banning, and HWID banning both don’t work.
If someone is so malicious that you need them unable to play at all, they probably know they can get around IP bans with a simple, even free VPN. As for HWID, they can just play on another pc, or alter the HWID roblox sees (Not too tech savvy, but I assume that’s possible?).
Then there’s the issue of shard computers, shared networks, etc.
Imagine someone goes to my school, plays Jailbreak, and gets “internet banned” or “IP banned”. Now, no one can ever use the school wifi to play that game again (or until specified time runs out).
Do you see where I’m going with this? If a user knows his actions can get him ip banned, he can cause even more harm by making other players unable to play.
Best way is just have a report system in game and ban the user. Allow players to mute/ignore other players, and that way malicious players can’t do much.
TL;DR: This is an ineffective method of banning, and could actually give malicious users more power. An in-game report system is the best we’ve got right now.
another thing that could be added is a “appeal” button where users can click it write a message and it will send it to the creator under some new category under messages.
To stop the free models thing you could have this service only avalible to beta members here on the fourm, if that service was called and the owner of the game/group was not in the beta group it would send out an error with like. “Creator of game/group is not a beta member, ban request failed.”
Beta is always meant to temporarily test things, never for permanent features that remain unavailable to others.
there is one actually… 200 player servers.
‘yet’
i guess but then how would you stop the free model ban everyone scripts.
Exactly. The feature request has not matured enough to be implemented as it has way too many complications. If you want it supported then that is for you to solve and us to put to the test.
I’m all for this!! I love using creativity to make my own ban systems but it’s a big chore sometimes and this would definitely make it a lot easier whereas I can focus more on the important parts of my game!
This is exactly what we need. There are nerds that somehow can exploit pass FE games by hijacking events. Its really up to the developer to secure that so exploiters can’t abuse, but we should be able to IP ban those basement dwellers who still bypass Roblox and the developers security.
Bumping this for more exposure.
The only thing I can sorta agree with on this thread is IPs - I don’t think we should have built in banning, however there’s not many ways to fingerprint devices (although it’s still possible 
) so I’d propose something as simple as having a Fingerprint property of players which would literally just be a SHA-256 (or even SHA-512 if it’s really that big of an issue) encrypted version of the user’s IP (or other identifying feature).
It wouldn’t just be useful for bans, it would also be useful for analytics, in-game features, and more.
Why do you think we should have IP bans and not HWID bans, and why do you think we shouldn’t have built in banning? I’d just like to know your opinion.
HWID banning would be difficult for cross platform and I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t even be allowed on the Windows store.
As for a built in banning system, from what I’ve seen ROBLOX does not endorse banning users from your game.
Any potential updates to this feature request?
Sounds like something that could come in handy!
Do you have anything to add on since the initial post?