My guess is that the sv_wwwDlDisconnected setting somehow interfered with the duplicate guid kicks, and rather than finding a proper solution they just disabled the kicks in case this setting was enabled. Generally bad style, but good for you in this case as you can exploit that. However, you need to understand what you are doing: Turning on sv_wwwDlDisconnected means that the server doesn’t reserve a client slot for players while they are downloading files. Players are disconnected from the server for the download and automatically reconnected when they’re finished so they don’t block client slots. On the server, you notice this through the infamous “acking disconnected download mode” messages you may or may not have heard of. The players won’t notice any difference, unless the server is full when they finished downloading and reconnect in which case they downloaded all the funsound packs for nothing. But if you have enough free slots, this shouldn’t be a problem.
Still, you are bypassing the duplicate guid kicks which means you might run into trouble with your xpsave for non-guid/non-pb players, e.g. them all sharing the same amount of xp or other unforeseen behaviour. Try turning on the cvar and see what happens [noparse];)[/noparse]
A proper solution would be to tell players to get a guid - an agonizing enterprise indeed that I have had the debatable pleasure of dealing with countless times back when we had a server.
