I don't think this is really needed. You can disable the check in mtaserver.conf. See check_duplicate_serials.

I don't think this is really needed. You can disable the check in mtaserver.conf. See check_duplicate_serials.

I know, I was the one who implemented it and this idea was brought up by @FileEX, but regardless I don't think it's unnecessary, it's easier than having to manually turn it off in the config

But you're right that it's not the most important change, it can be omitted

I don't think this is really needed. You can disable the check in mtaserver.conf. See check_duplicate_serials.

Can I also disable nick checks?

I don't think this is really needed. You can disable the check in mtaserver.conf. See check_duplicate_serials.

Can I also disable nick checks?

I don't think so. From what I can see this PR doesn't turn off nick checks as well.

It was a mistake, it was supposed to disable nick checks as well. But it isn't really needed, we better solve the bug itself.

Since no one will fix this bug anytime soon, this solution would be much better. I see nothing wrong with disabling nickname checks. If this approach is considered bad, then let's add a 'check_duplicated_nicks' parameter to the mtaserver.conf as well.