This gives serials a wide range of potential uses in scripting and anti-abuse purposes and systems. Their reliability is so high that many players tend to have the same serial for 6 years or longer (in theory unlimited amount of years) unless they use a different PC at some point. MTA wants to give server owners a more reliable way to ban players and keep them out, which is why serials were invented. They are mostly used for banning players, because a computer with a dynamic IP can change IP every now and then, making IP bans ineffective. Serials are 32 characters long and contain letters and numbers. Serials are used by MTA and server administrators to reliably identify a PC that a player is using.
