STEAM ID PENDING

Description

This is a special SteamID you can get in some cases. It means that the player has not yet been validated on the Steam authentication servers and your server is waiting for reply from Steam to know if the player is using a real Steam account or not.

Causes

A player in a server might have STEAM_ID_PENDING in following situations:

• Player has just joined, but not yet validated. For example you have this value as event_var(networkid) in player_connect event.
• There are two players with the same SteamID on your server. The other one shows STEAM_ID_PENDING as your server is waiting for the other player with the same id to disconnect. An example of this is when you make a LAN server to which two or more people with same SteamID connect. They have STEAM_ID_LAN then, but when you change sv_lan to 0, only one of those players validates properly, others are left with this pending message.
• The player is using a cracked Steam client and thus his account can't be properly validated.

Notes

When the player's validation is complete, EventScripts fires event es_player_validated in which you can get the real SteamID for the first time.