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we have close links with clanbase admins and warleagues admins :) a clanbase admin said to me not long ago that online gaming had matured compared to the early days and the players and admins had matured as well .. its a statement, that after a little thought, i found myself agreeing with .. PBBans did not push anyone to stream their leagues here because we believe that choice should be based on the quality of service that any anti cheat site should strive to provide .. we have worked hard behind the scenes with various projects (and still are) in an attempt to make PBBans a top quality choice and after streamlining the forums,improving the MPI3 and above all maintaining a professional and courteous approach to any queries that we have had to deal with i'm glad to say that the ties between PBBans,clanbase and warleagues are becoming stronger :) just recently clanbase cod and cod:uo admins have decided to introduce a rule that all ladder matches are played on streamed servers .. they have had the foresight to offer a choice of anti cheat repositories to stream to and its great to see so many electing for the PBBans option .. the main benefit of playing league and ladder matches on streaming servers for me, is that any queries re pbss/md5 kicks etc etc can be resolved in quite quick time and with the streamed info going straight to an EvenBalance repository,untouched by human hand, there is absolutely no chance of any any accusations of falsifying logs/pbss etc. There is also some comfort in the fact that if a server is streaming and running the recommended md5 scans and cvar checks (cvar checks are optional)for hack related files, that the battle against any hacking activity becomes that much easier to win ..any online gamer will testify to the fact that most, if not all games are plagued with lamers intent on using downloaded skills to either disrupt other players fun or for some personal gratification,whatever it is i find it hard to understand why .. what i do know is that punkbuster is the best anti cheat software out there,and,with just a little help can be truly great in the ongoing fight to keep our servers clean. The recent changes made at PBBans makes it easier than ever to get your servers streaming and very shortly server admins will be able to stream to more than one repository. In short it will be harder than ever for anyone caught with hacks to get a decent server to play on after they are caught and it will be much much harder for anyone using hacks to get away with it in league or ladder matches if the admins are determined to utilise all means at their disposal to ensure as clean a gaming environment as is possible for their dedicated player base communities :) All you need to join the growing PBBans anti cheat community is a server and rcon/ftp (ftp is not mandatory) and a clean punkbuster guid .. a cheat conviction in any PB supported game will ensure that your not allowed to participate in anything PBBans related and that includes having a forum account. All PBBans services and forum sections are completely free and if the above criteria is met anyone is welcome to join us. As i stated earlier,giving admins the choice of what anti cheat repositories to stream to can only be a good thing and the league/ladder server admins themselves can make their own decision on which anti cheat site suits them the best .. there is no difference what so ever between EvenBalance repositories .. the only difference is in the quality of service offered by the various anti cheat sites .. so, if you feel choked that PBBans was not even considered as a streaming option why not ask the senior admins concerned what makes one repository better than another and why no choices were given :P sorry for the long post but i hope i have at least opened a few eyes as to what streaming can offer to any concerned admin as well as those admins charged with running leagues or ladders etc :)

congratulations and welcome aboard [H.C] Call of Duty 2 194.50.80.111:28964 Last Updated: June 14, 2006 8:33 pm streaming nicely ..forum upgrade applied :)

added: -=FUCKU=- Soldier of Fortune II 70.84.238.170:20101 Last Updated: June 14, 2006 1:54 am streaming nicely ..thanks for the support m8 :)

try reading this: http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18253

you can use exactly the same set up as other servers you have streaming m8 :)

didn't realise we had struck a deal .. as all those posted catches will be the same on any other pb enabled server :)

my bad Scar .. should have checked first ..thanks m8 :)

all forum account applications are validated before access is granted .. PBBans gives cheaters nothing .. and that includes a forum account .. having known hack cvars in your cfg normally indicates a toggle to activate hack features .. anyone with known hack cvars in their cfg that connects to a PBBans protected server will more than likely receive a ban .. or is there another reason why someone has sol_ cvars in their cfg .. its hardly something you would pluck out of thin air and add to your mp cfg .. i have the hack that uses the sol_ cvars right in front of me as i type,its written by *edit* hence the cvar connection .. it contains an aimbot/wallhack/esp/chams/enironmentals/and a miscellaneous section .. all can be toggled on and off using the cvars provided .. this is probably a lot more info than i should be giving out ..but i want anyone who has those cvars in their mp cfg to know exactly why we run those cvar checks on PBBans protected servers and what the result will be if anyone using those cvars joins a streaming PBBans protected server .. there is absolutely no reason to have those cvars in your mp cfg other than to toggle on and off one or more hack features .. its that simple

and like i said ..nothing more to say .. its only your say so that only an AV programme was running and only your say so that you did not change anything else on your system after the initial violation was raised .. anything else to discuss .. update your trouble ticket

i thought the answers you received explained things perfectly Ager 1. a gamehack is exactly what it says on the tin .. you were detected by punkbuster as having an outside programme running that was flagged as a hack when in game 2. how do you get it - you download it and install it 3. when you first got it you should have opened a trouble ticket and a member of evenbalance staff would have helped you troubleshoot your game to find exactly what caused the violation to be raised 4. why is it wrong to delete and reinstall the game - its wrong because you have changed the gaming environment that caused the initial violation to be raised .. for all anyone knows you downloaded a cheat and when it got detected you immediately disconnected and removed it then claimed a false positive .. this has happened before so its important that your gaming environment is exactly the same as when the violation was first raised. 5. the server admin only has your word that you did not know what you needed to get rid of ..and by changing your gaming environment you lost the chance to prove otherwise .. who is to say that you did not install a hack / get caught / delete it / then claim it was a pb error because after the deletion your game shows clean on every other pb enabled server conclusion: either play on another server or buy a new game so you can start afresh with a new guid .. no amount of whine on these forums will remove your ban from a server that does not even stream their logs to us and if ATF operate a zero tolerance policy no amount of whine will make them remove a bona fide PB catch from their pbbans.dat. your lucky in one way .. if ATF had of been streaming here your ban would have been applied to a lot more servers than just one and you would not have even got so much as a forum account to post your gripes on :) hopefully this time round you will understand the how's and why's and move on thread will be closed in a day or so because in effect there is nothing more to say

hi :) after a rep restart i see 12.10.101.110:20113 listed once an account can be created at any time by following these instructions click me just pm a staff member the selected username/password/clantag/server IP the guy who is renting the server will have to go through our forum validation procedure if he wants to take part in any forum discussions etc :P

if its kicking for a standard file mismatch i would personally disable that check by placing a // in front of it :)

try using hlsw for all your admin needs :) its free and the download can be found here click me i have written a tutorial on set up and use if needed :)

normally the "you get what you pay for" adage rings true :) https://secure.jolt.co.uk/index.php?page=clanserver.php

thanks Dyno :) i can tell you that the trials are going better than we could have expected and Foxdie is writing a few additional goodies into the package as we type .. sooner rather than later would be my guess :P

Hey Wilmar,your server is streaming nicely m8 .. i've upgraded your forum status .. welcome aboard :)

if i understand you correctly .. you want to change your server host name :unsure: this is done with the set sv_hostname in your server.cfg

we have those too .. what was posted was an example of other various commands from that hack ... soon there will be the ability to stream to more than one repository .. if your interested why not pay our streaming center a visit :) http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18066 :)

its a hack cvar and if detected on a streaming server will result in a ban :) other commands from that same hack: end_wall end_weapesp end_weapicon end_classesp end_entityesp end_espmaxchars end_sens end_autoreload end_aimkey end_aimcrouch end_refinfo

a player came into our irc channel in the early hours of this morning .. the convo (edited) went something like this: short version depending what side of the fence your sitting on .. a player joins his regular server and gets a pb gamehack violation he immediately disconnects and uninstalls then reinstalls .. this in effect removes all traces of whatever it was that triggered that hack violation .. because your server is not streaming to an anti cheat site,the ban will only appear on your pbbans.dat and nowhere else .. so the player can connect quite freely to any other pb enabled server and not show any violation .. i dont know what your policy is m8 but i operate a zero tolerance policy on servers i run,and no matter what the excuse or circumstances i will never remove a bona fide pb detection catch unless evenbalance staff inform us that its a false positive :) of course you know the player a lot better than me, but in my experience if you remove one such ban for nothing more than "he's a regular" and i think it was a mistake on pb part .. then you might be opening a can of worms for any others who are on your banlist .. how much is Q3 to buy these days :P .. thats all it would take on his part to be able to play your server again sorry for the long post but i hope all this helps you out :D

if your logs have the full info that relates to these kicks: Violation (PB HACK) #130035 Violation (PB HACK) #130179 Violation (WALLHACK) #60203 Violation (VIDEO DRIVER HACK) #90003 and they all relate to the same player,then that player will be hardware banned pretty soon .. i can say that with confidence .. those type of kicks are 100% valid PB catches. not sure why your posting to say you have to be 100% sure ..you have the log info/pbss and the actual hack he was using .. i would say thats 10000000% sure lol. you can pass the actual hack he was using to any staff member via forum pm, we will then check if it exists in our cheat collection point.. if not we will dissect it and add the relevant cvar/md5 info to our Master Config Index.. and also mail it to [email protected]

afaik cfg's were removed from the bannable items due to the fact its so easy to d/l them from a server in sof2 .. the actual hack checks still remain as bannable :)

atm your server(s) do not show in our repository .. if you have followed the directions in the streaming center re setup click me they will show as new server(s) and i can add your details for security purposes .. info i will need are the loguser and logpass that you have selected .. the clantag will be [RoOF] if you can pass that info via forum pm i will be ready for when your server(s) are back online .. once streaming is verified an upgrade in forum status follows .. hopefully that wont be too long. welcome aboard btw :)

3xET and 2xRTCW at your disposal foxdie :)

AFAIK the reason this happens is because the map(s) are loading before pb has had a chance to kick in try removing any map_rotate command if it exists in your server start file remove any map_rotate command from your server cfg when the server has started up .. confirm that pb has started and is running by issuing the pb_sv_ver command .. if it needs updating do so via pbsetup or pbweb add the map_rotate stuff back in and restart the server hopefully that will result in you having a fully updated and working pb on your server :)