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I was just got this response from NFO on this issue: "The last word from EA is that they're doing intermittent maintenance, which will cause PB not to start up at all during those periods."

Does it say something about a company when they keep the one GSP that is known to "lose" their server code over and over?

Doesn't NFO offer dedicated box rentals?

Thanks for posting this info. I'm holding out hope for Branzone. Always appreciate the professionalism around here.

getting same. blank emails.

This seems interesting, I started out on this game at the same time as well.

Please continue to fill out the survey so we can get the best picture of what the community is looking for out there. Thank you to all that have submitted so far!!!! If you don't think the ratings look right to you, fill out a survey and put in your 2 cents worth!!!! ***Preliminary Results with 40 surveys filled out and tabulated. Conquest Highest Rated: Panama Canal Lowest Rated: Nelson Bay Rush Highest Rated: Valpara

Below are my answers. Conquest Panama Canal Rating: 8 Laguna Alta Rating: 6 Atacama Desert Rating: 8 Arica Harbor Rating: 6 White Pass Rating: 6 Nelson Bay Rating: ? Laguna Presa Rating: 6 Port Valdez Rating: 7 Oasis Rating: 10 Harvest Day Rating: 6 Heavy Metal Rating: 6 Rush Valpara

I have posted this on both US/UK EA bc2 forums; I hope this is ok, the more reponses the better. I am working on new map rotations for one of our servers and would really appreciate some feed back from the bc2 community. Below is a survey I have created to rate maps and server settings to get an idea of the types of servers that you enjoy playing on the most. Any further information you would like to provide is also appreciated; if i get a sufficient response; I will post tabulated results. Thank you in advance for your time and feedback. Survey Instructions: (1)Copy and paste the following list and questions in your reply. (2) Type beside each map name a # between 0-10 (0=Hate Map/10=Love Map) (If you are unfamiliar with a map please rate it with a ?) (3) Please Delete all the incorrect answers from the end questions; rated on Never/Sometimes/Always. SURVEY (COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR RESPONES) Conquest Panama Canal Rating: Laguna Alta Rating: Atacama Desert Rating: Arica Harbor Rating: White Pass Rating: Nelson Bay Rating: Laguna Presa Rating: Port Valdez Rating: Oasis Rating: Harvest Day Rating: Heavy Metal Rating: Rush Valpara

Thanks for the feedback. I've made a modest donation and signed up for it as a subscription. I wish there were more we could do; the help this community provides and services of which so many server administrators take advantage are invaluable. I do hope this motivates others to donate as well.

I'm not sure this is the correct forum but it was as close to my issue that I could find. I donated some time ago to ppbans.com and then sent email and pm's to rodeobob like it says on the Site Sponsor area to have my clan's name and a link to the clan home page appear in that section; however, all of my attempts to contact anyone on the issue have went unanswered and nothing has changed in the site sponsor section. Can someone tell me what I can do so that my donation, which I had planned on being monthly, is recognized in the site sponsor section. Thanks in advance for your time.

thank you gentlemen for your information, very helpful; i hope this thread helps others understand and implement these steps as needed.

any chance of getting some feedback on the issues i have above? Anything more that can be done?

I post the following to try and help anyone that is unlucky enough to have the job of providing anti-cheat protection to a bc2 server. Its just a basic outline of my understanding of the process with questions where my limited knowledge of the issues end. I start with the following statments which I belive to be true. A.) Its impossible to catch all players who cheat/hack in your bc2 server. B.) With the proper precautions its possible to catch some of the hackers that play on your bc2 server and prevent some known hackers from playing on your server altogether. Based on the above I ask... What is the best course of action to prevent/catch hackers in your bc2 server? The following is my very basic understanding of this process. Basic Anti-Cheat Protection: 1. Basic protection is provided by Even Balance's punkbuster software which is included in every bc2 installation and only requires a bc2 server admin to turn punkbuster on for the most basic anti-cheat protection. (Punkbuster is required to run on ranked servers). Moderate Anti-Cheat Protection: 2. Modify the punkbuster config files running on your bc2 server to include MD5 checks. Info on doing this can be found on pbbans under the Master Config Index. Subscribe to the thread that announces new MD5 checks for bc2 and update your files as necessary. a. Are there other sources for MD5 checks besides PBbans? If so, how do they differ from those at pbbans? b. Are there different methods of using MD5 checks or even an alternate type of check? c. Why doesn't punkbuster automatically include these checks? Advanced Anti-Cheat Protection 3. Make your bc2 server stream to a MBI such as that offered by pbbans. Streaming your server to a MBI allows you to prevent cheaters caught in other streaming servers from even entering your server and allows cheaters caught in your server to be automatically banned in other streaming servers. a. There are alternate steaming MBI providers such as: 1. Punksbusted 2. GGC-Stream 3. GV What are there advantages/disadvantages to streaming to these alternate providers specifically? (are there streaming providers besides the ones i mentioned above?) b. Should I stream to all of them? some of them? Does steaming to more than one provider increase the anti-cheat protection of my bc2 server? 4. Screen shots on Bc2 are virtually useless because they can often be returned totally black by non-cheating players. Please evaluate each of my statements (A & B); (1-4) for accuracy. Additionally, please fill in my lettered questions (a,b,c) under each number if you can increase my understanding of those areas. Any additional information that may help me or others in this endeavour is greatly appreciated.

looking it up and asking server host right now if they support it, any downside or other info about it i should be aware of?