Ignore flooding concerns in the minute after server start

Author: RussellLVP

pawn/Entities/Players/PlayerEvents.pwn

@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ class PlayerEvents <playerId (MAX_PLAYERS)> {
         // between both connections. When the two IPs connect in rapid order, temporary block the IP.
         // This will result in closed connections for ingame players using the same IP address.
         if (!strcmp(ipAddress, m_lastConnectionAddress, true)
-            && (Time->currentHighResolutionTime() - m_lastConnectionTimestamp) < DefaultDelayConnection) {
+            && (Time->currentHighResolutionTime() - m_lastConnectionTimestamp) < DefaultDelayConnection
+            && GetServerUptimeMs() > 60 * 1000 /* Ignore the first minute after start **/ ) {
             printf("Blocking [%s] for 30 minutes due to flooding.", ipAddress);
             BlockIpAddress(ipAddress, BlockageDuration); // block the IP address
         }

pawn/Resources/Callbacks/Others/OnGameModeInit.pwn

@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
 // Keep track of whether the main() method has finished executing.
 new bool: g_mainFinishedExecuting = false;
 
+// Time (in milliseconds) at which the server started.
+new g_serverStartTime;
+
+GetServerUptimeMs() { return GetTickCount() - g_serverStartTime; }
+
 public OnGameModeInit() {
     // Block until the main() method has finished executing completely. Race conditions can occur in
     // which certain information or classes are not yet initialized when we don't do this. Pawn
@@ -23,6 +28,8 @@ public OnGameModeInit() {
         return 1;
     }
 
+    g_serverStartTime = GetTickCount();
+
     // Part of Driver.
     SetTimer("UpdateVehicleTrailerStatus", 1000, 1);
     InitializeDriftTextDraws();