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    Why bother streaming

    in Streaming Questions and Troubleshooting

    Posted

    This is an opinion, well possible, but is it likely as well? Experience and facts make something else rather evident: "once a cheat, always a cheat" (possibly "clean" for a little while when it's appropriate ... )

    Any admin who bothers to maintain a banlist will come across players that managed to create multiple log entries with different hacks, who starts to stream to pbbans or just intergrates a server's banlist with pbbans' MBI will find double guid's, around 10% of them with differing hack violations and dates, always showing a sort of "upgrade tendency", i.e. first detection gamehack/bot/WH, second catch Multihack/pb_hack etc.; same applies to hax who manage to enter both PsB & PBBans MBI, just a nameless example ...

     

    Or simply try a forums search here for keyword "already" in 'Screenshot and Demo Submission Area', will return quite a number of posts like ... guid is already on MBI etc.

    And lo everyone btw :)

    nice to see you here m8 - now all we need is to get you and pappa irc trained :P

    Im New Here

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    There are some who would launch into a rant re other anti cheat sites :P but to look at things in a more objective fashion Iwould say the main difference between the 2 sites is the policy on cvars - PBBans actually bans for

    hack related cvars , I have yet to see a plausible excuse as to why a player would have something like vinneh_autofire in their cfg :) pb is quite a competent anti cheat solution but it needs that little extra help to make it a great anti cheat solution - we strive to provide that help by collecting and dissecting hacks (both public and private) for cvars/md5 scans - this information is then made available to our streaming admins via the MCI (Master Config Index) - all streamed information is untouched by human hand and gives every ban that makes it onto the MBI (Master Ban Index) cast iron proof to back it up.

     

    As always, Pbbans does not force anyone to use our MCI or MBI its entirely up to the guys and gals that fork out their hard earned cash to provide game servers - having said that, on a personal level i think if we can give PB a helping hand in any way possible,then thats exactly what we should do.

     

    over the last couple of months the servers streaming to the PBBans repository increased 3 fold so we must be doing something right :) - take a look around and hopefully we will see more of ya on here

    Why bother streaming

    in Streaming Questions and Troubleshooting

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    I figured the only reason why PBBans exists is because of cheaters (I can't think of anything else).

    The reason any anti-cheat exists is to provide as much information as they can to ensure that the cleanest gaming environment is attained for anyone who cares enough about protecting their servers/players to become a streaming game admin - you might trust implicitly your fellow clan members - but (theres always a but) :) do you trust implicitly every player that connects to your server - there are a ton of various pbss blockers out there that are part of a hack or stand alone, they will provide you with a nice clean screenshot every time - the best way to enhance PB for cheat detection is to run MD5 scans - we go to the trouble of collecting all the MD5 info and collating it for our streaming admins to use and any player that connects to your server only has to type /pb_logmd5tool 1 to get a list of what checks you run (if any) - so whats it to be?

     

    stand back and let it all flow by ya, or jump aboard and provide your clan server/members with the cleanest gaming environment that we can provide - the choice is yours.

    213.251.152.31:27018

    in Streaming Questions and Troubleshooting

    Posted

    PBBans Hub Server Search

    Server Status: Server is not streaming via Hub

    Server Info

    Clan Tag: #?!WLD\'>

    Server IP: 213.251.152.31:27018

    Last Streaming: Unknown

     

    somewhere along the line you have got things wrong - do you have FTP access?

     

    if so, you upload 2 files (pbucon.use and pbbans_hub.cfg) and add one command to your pbsv.cfg (pb_sv_load pbbans_hub.cfg) - restart PB by executing via rcon pb_sv_restart.

     

    a remote admin tool such as hlsw will help you out no end :) i have sent a tutorial on its setup and use via forum pm :)

     

    download the latest version of hlsw from here click me

    Why bother streaming

    in Streaming Questions and Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Look dude, there's no reason to start being offensive. I've never cheated at online games, and I don't like cheats. However just cause someone cheated once doesn't mean they allways cheat. I just don't see why I need a banlist such as pbbans because PB already does the job of checking for cheaters.

    like i posted earlier no one is forcing you to use PBBans or anyone elses bans - PB does a competent job on its own but needs a little help via MD5 scans etc to make it an exceptional anti cheat programme.

     

    Lets get real here, almost everyone has cheated at one time or another at some game (anyone remember iddqd?). Most of us have probably never cheated at online games but I can see how someone could be curious about it and check out a cheat.

    If someone checks out a cheat for curiousity sake they have more chance of getting away with it on a badly configured server and thats the reason CB are insisting on streaming and at a minimum runs MD5 checks.

     

    As stated earlier we dont ban anyone, PB does - all we do is provide our streaming admins the most up to date information for keeping their servers clean and keep records of data that can be accessed by any concerned admin - no ones accusing you of being a cheat, cheaters dont get a forum account here.

     

    I merely enquired about why I need this service, I just play the game for fun and with PB already enabled and updated whats the risk of someone still cheating?

     

    PB enabled and updated is only half the battle - you only have to look at any ban list from any anti-cheat service to see that most bans are generated by undetected hacks that are caught using MD5 scans.

    Streaming to an anti -cheat site gives anyone running leagues/ladders/cups etc etc the feelgood factor this is because any matches played, are played in the cleanest gaming environment possible,and, anyone caught with pb violations can never claim they were set up by someone else.

     

    You know - its the honest players who use your server i feel sorry for - they trust you to provide a clean gaming environment because your the server admin and you post whats tantamount to a cheaters charter here of all places lol - either get on with the streaming or go elsewhere and try your luck - again its a choice thing - here we are very much pro PB and very much anti hacks, your posts seem to indicate otherwise

     

    You don't have to be offensive just because I don't agree with your opinion

    if you dont agree with PBBans stance on cheating and the detection of cheaters then please go elsewhere and see if they can help you, your opinions are the very antithesis of all we care about here.

    Why bother streaming

    in Streaming Questions and Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Take a read of this click me

     

    and no offence meant but if you disagree with any of it go stream to someone else and see if their TOS is any different- i personally dont want any cheaters past or present on my servers and CB admins clearly agree with that policy - by streaming you are putting your sv logs in an evenbalance repository making it impossible to falsify information or screenshot and believe me its been tried in the past - if you are not running at the very minimum md5 scans for known hacks you are leaving all the honest players that play on your server at a distinct disadvantage as our ban index proves - all bans on our ban index are backed up by streamed log information, that makes every ban 100% genuine.

    We are not deciding who plays on your server PB is - as always you have a choice stream or dont stream, play with PB enabled or not enabled, keep proven cheaters out of your servers or let them in, etc etc

    No one is forcing you to use our Master Ban Index that is entirely the server admins choice - what CB are trying to enforce is a clean gaming environment for all competitve matches and thats a big thumbs up for them - get used to it m8- take a look around - most leagues and ladders are making streaming to an anti-cheat site one of their pre requisites - fortunately your views are in the minority

     

    my 2 cents

     

    btw - http://www.pbbans.com/mbi.php

    stream this coduo server 84.244.162.55:28960

    in Streaming Questions and Troubleshooting

    Posted

    there are 2 methods of streaming - the repository and the PBBans hub

     

    how to stream using the repository method is outlined here:

    http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16984

    (points to note: USER and PW is chosen by you. It cannot contain spaces. and should be passed to a staff member via PM on the forum - the repository logaddr and logport never change)

     

    the hub method of streaming is outlined here:

    http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?s=&...ost&p=49741

     

    the explanation of what the hub is etc can be found here:

    http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showforum=380

    Request Call of Duty 2 Streaming Server 84.244.171.38:28900

    in Streaming Questions and Troubleshooting

    Posted

    i ran through all of the checks, and they all worked out, except the msi check (last one), when i enter ip and port, it finds the server, but says its not streaming.

    tnx for ur help already, i guess i just need a little bit more:)

    PBBans Hub Server Search

    Server Status: Server is streaming via Hub

    Server Info

    Clan Tag: -=||XFS||=-

    Server IP: 84.244.171.38:28900

    Last Streaming: August 4, 2006 2:18 pm

     

    congratulations - welcome - glad the troubleshooting guide worked out for ya :)

    Nice Multihack :o!

    in Return to Castle Wolfenstein

    Posted

    kill bill eh - who'd have thought :(

    just so he aint confused with any other killbill;

     

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