If using IFSO and able to view the server load any admin should beable to spot most of the obvious cheats. The rest are caught by experience and basic detective work.

Better anti cheat then IONCROSS ?!?! You've gotta be kidding me.

easy there man, everybody always wants a better mousetrap, or in this case a gank trap

I will try to address your requests as best as I can.

1) There is a program call FL anti-cheat and should be found here. It works by monitoring server load and when it reaches a set value them the players with traffic less than a set value will be kicked. It is based on the assumption that players with s-l-o-w connections lag the heck out of the server which can certainly be a cause but not always the only answer.

2) FLSO is the one and only admin program for all sysadmins. It is difficult to consider anything else standing up to it. I do use FLAcctBrowser and FLConnMon but they are helper programs to the master of all admin programs.

3) Define anti-cheat. To me a cheat is any breaking of the rules but not just modding. Certianly Pinger has it spot on pointing out that most of the anti-cheat is long hours, blearily searching files and assimilating data - all direct hands-on work. As for the modding cheats consider the FL v1.1 patch, Lancerguard and FLSO's banning after kicks.

Good luck!

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Earendil
SysAdmin of Boston Freelancer server
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