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http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=34731 Once your request is received things can progress at a rapid rate :)

Bans are placed on the MBI using the server assigned pbguid, if the pbguid on the MBI is not yours then the rest of your post is irrelevant.

Theres not many older farts than me about in the online gaming scene =DaM= Gunner :) Welcome aboard, please dont hesitate to post up if you come across anything that you dont understand, we see a lot of puzzled posts when someone makes the switch from the old rep. method of streaming to the modern alternative that is pioneered here, I hope you will be just as amazed as we were when testing it, how efficient/easy to set up/feature packed the PBBans Hub is. Its a truly "live", as it happens, real time streaming initiative. Our coders are not the type of guys that are prepared to sit back and admire their handywork, so its always best practise to pop in on a daily basis just to check things out :) and as always, there is a wealth of experience re server administration problem solving etc in our private sections, from both the PBBans staff and our regular streaming game admins. One of our main aims is to take the hard work out of streaming and give our SGA's the peace of mind that comes with the knowledge that their server(s) are as well protected as humanly possible. The PBBans Hub has allowed us to achieve that aim in a huge way, as your about to discover. On a sidenote, it seems atm that psb are experiencing some technical difficulties with their site and streaming facilities. When they are back up and running there is no reason that you cant stream to both sites, its entirely a choice thing. :) The one thing I am certain of is that when you get a taste of the PBBans Hub you will not be disappointed with it.

Glad to see you got things sorted at last Gyre :) We were pretty confident things would go your way but we have to wait for the official nod off EB before we can do anything. As you can see; When we get the nod, things happen pretty quickly around here :) and as Firestorm has already stated, your ban was removed from every PBBans streaming server within a second or 2.

If the above scenario applys to you (which it does in this case) it means a local ban has been applied by a server admin and it relates to that one particular server. You need to contact the server admin and ask for the ban to be removed. Your pbguid needs to be removed from the server pbbans.dat and that can be found in the root PB directory. This scenario only applies to pbguid b90ebc45ba2304f641c172f4dbe27715

A complete list of PB supported games can be found here; http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=entry

PBBans Hub Server Results Server Status Server is streaming via Hub Server Info Clan Tag <^> Server IP 208.79.93.176:27965

62.75.219.15:28960 timed out in hlsw when I checked. Server Summary Server Name: [Iron Brigade] Recruiting WWW.IB-CLAN.ORG Server Type: Call of Duty 4 IP Address: 62.75.219.15 Port: 28960 Status: Dead/Restarting

The final addition to the Hub is always done by a PBBans admin :)If theres a problem we can then inform you immediately with a solution via forum PM. Server is streaming nicely btw, no probs at all. PBBans Hub Server Results Server Status Server is streaming via Hub Server Info Clan Tag [AoG] Server IP 8.6.8.64:16567 Data Last Received 2 mins ago

Yah, I thought it prudent to keep the list of whats bad about this game deliberately low so as to not waste half the bloody forum space lol. I would rather have seen no pc version released, than this travesty of a game. Some lazy fooker has just altered a bit of code so it can play on a pc, its so obvious its a console orientated game that has just been pieced together by some fecking geek who has never played a pc game. :angry: At least I'm assuming this piece of crap is ok for the console brigade, it might well turn out to be just as bad on a console lol

I'm at work atm, so all I can tell you is that 8.6.74.34:1716 is not even in the PBBans systems. :huh: Servers are auto deleted from the PBBans systems when they fail to stream for 30 days. I will be able to access more details re your team account status etc when I get home tonight, unless another staff member gets to it first. :P

Lets start with the positives of sof3-payback; There are none :) Now lets get to the negatives; The only things you can change in the options are video related (resolution, brightness etc) No cheat protection. No lean. Not even a cfg. lol It's made (if you could call it that) :) by activision value, which I take it is like a cheap and nasty version of the real thing. It does not even have a cd key, so if you aquire it from somewhere :P you do not need a crack to get it working. I was going to say total waste of time and effort, but not a lot of effort has gone into making this. This has to be a contender for the worst game ever released and from what I see is a cheap and nasty rip off that will just rake in some $$$ for feck all. I feel sorry for whats left of the sof2 community who thought this might regenerate some life/enthusiasm back into the sof game genre, when all it has done is knock another nail in the coffin.

http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=28211

I would say that any Quake3 engine game is one of the easiest types of game server to get streaming, if you have PB enabled :P When you get PB enabled there will be no problem. The server is in your team account just waiting for streaming to start. Add this to your server cfg // PUNKBUSTER pb_sv_enable // Enables PB pb_sv_autoUpdBan 1 // Bans are remembered on reset and restart the server.

I guess him and the other 1512 players on the PBBans MBI, as a result of full blown PB software detections for that particular violation number, are all innocent players then :D The only way to deal with such issues is zero tolerance, everyone knows exactly were they stand if detected with a cheat, and more importantly what to do if they think the raised violation is a mistake.

Thread closed due to the fact that this self same discussion is being held in the ET specific section.

If you run a server with PB disabled you are throwing out an open invitation to anyone with a cheat to come join your server. Cheaters actively search for servers with no PB so they can "own" with no fear of any comebacks. Any lag caused by PB is normally due to one of 3 reasons; 1. Badly configured server(s) 2. GSP cramming too many servers on one box to save money. 3. The server is run from a home internet connection. Whats your server ip:port ? Streaming of any type is not possible without PB. Pity it was not on a streaming server.

You are indeed at level 1a, PBBans uses a different streaming initiative that is easy to set up, more effective than other methods of streaming and is packed with extra features to help you make your server(s) as clean as possible. Its up to you to take advantage of the features Hub streaming offers. :) Firstly: via your team account; view servers/edit flags check the enforce bans box This will serve you well in 3 phases. 1. By checking this option, the Hub will check every player that connects to your server against the PBBans MBI, and if the player appears on the MBI will kick him off the server before he can join a team. 2. By checking this option, it reduces the load on your servers resources because the Hub checks every connecting player and not the server. 3. By checking this option it means that you dont have to download the current PBBans banlist and upload to your servers PB directory, because the Hub will keep anyone on the MBI off your server. PB is the best anti cheat software out there but it needs that little extra help via cvar/md5 scans to make it truly leet. We have simplified the process of putting cvar/md5 scans on to your game server. Find your game from the list presented here; http://www.pbbans.com/mci.php Select - overview You are presented with 3 options, you can download cvars or md5's or both. I would recomend both, when you select download it will be downloaded as a pbsvuser.cfg and all you have to do then is upload it to your server(s) root PB directory ( the same one your pbsv.cfg is in) After you upload the pbsvuser.cfg simply restart PB with the rcon command pb_sv_restart or restart your server(s). The pbsvuser.cfg is auto executed by PB on start up so you do not need to do anything else. All you have to do after that is keep an eye on your game specific forum section and when you see a Benway post saying the MCI has been updated, you go through the same simple process again. Hopefully, in the near future we will be able to introduce a new feature wereby one click of the mouse via your team account will auto update your cvar/md5 scans and make the process even simpler :) Welcome to the world of modern anti cheat.

To keep the 42,475(and counting) cheaters on the PBBans MBI off your server. via your team account; view servers/edit flags check the enforce bans box This will serve you well in 3 phases. 1. By checking this option, the Hub will check every player that connects to your server against the PBBans MBI, and if the player appears on the MBI will kick him off the server before he can join a team. 2. By checking this option, it reduces the load on your servers resources because the Hub checks every connecting player and not the server. 3. By checking this option it means that you dont have to download the current PBBans banlist and upload to your servers PB directory, because the Hub will keep anyone on the MBI off your server. Do not forget that streaming your server is only half the battle. You should run the latest cvar/md5 scans that are specific to your game genre and can be found here; http://www.pbbans.com/mci.php

Actually your server shows this; Server Status Server is not streaming via Hub Server Info Clan Tag [UKE] Server IP 193.93.45.34:16567 Data Last Received November 4, 2007 2:57 pmWhich means its in the Hub but not streaming :PAll your team account info is up to date, just apply the quick fix as explained here; http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29047

There was a crashing issue relating to the PB update issued on the 9th. I thought this had been resolved with the update released on the 13th. If you still have an issue try raising a TroubleTicket. BF2 TroubleTicket link

Why lump 2 multihack violation numbers in the one topic title ? They are 2 completely seperate detections, one of which has been confirmed as a possible false positive. The #70473 violation was in 99.9% of cases, a cheat related violation, but for PBBans a raised bannable violation is a black and white issue. If there is a remote chance that a bannable violation can be raised by something other than a cheat, all detections for that violation # are removed. So the 514 or so bans for #70473 were removed from the MBI. No matter how many times you post it. No matter how many forums you post it on. No matter how many times you say it on irc. The fact remains that #70476 is still a valid violation (725 bans and counting) and will remain so unless EvenBalance say different.

That goes especially for how we combat cheats. If you have a server, get it streaming and gain a forum upgrade to access private forum sections. You will also have access to the PBBans MCI which contains game specific cvar/md5 scans for all PB supported games.

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