Since your rant mainly consists of quoting me I guess I'll reply.
First, a 24 hour ban is not a warning. This would be detrimental to a server's launch, thankfully we have our own following.
Put yourself in a server owner's shoes where they launch their server, and for whatever reason trigger your "automatic banishment" that seems to work so well judging from the countless threads in the section. I wonder how many server launches your system has ruined.
I have an idea. If you can detect spoof accurately enough, why don't you just report the correct number of players, at least then you would not falsely ban servers, you would just have the wrong count. If you cannot detect accurately enough, well that's why you have so many threads.
Yes the players_online table wasn't cleared because it happens on shutdown and startup and we had a crash, it's nothing with the code, it's the process.
It was unexpected and the entire team was debugging the situation and handling communication with the community. I did not notice the online list was still cached.
I don't think that justifies a 24 hour ban as I mentioned above.
Proof that you sent a "warning"? I'm not sure we ever disputed that you sent an email. We said you banished us three times. First last year, second as this "warning" and the final ban. So yes, nice email, and thanks for including my name.
The main reason for this thread is no other complaints against you seem to go noticed. Do you think we really need to be on your list, or we need "free publicity". We've handled promoting and running campaigns already. Notice we have players before this thread.
Everything in that post of mine was truth. I don't know if you can't read, but as I said the list was cached in the database.
The "warning" ban is iffy, but okay, I was even somewhat okay with it. In the post you linked I was trying to be civil.
The final ban, however, since we decided to disable the cast system entirely took a few seconds to apply a change. We were offline for the time it took the server to boot up (as I said before the table is cleared on startup). It was cleared almost immediately. That was our last downtime, we were in your list before we went down. Later on I heard we were removed from your list.
That is a ridiculous response time for an automated ban.
The 613 was the first warning "ban". The 913 was the final ban, yes. This was definitely the illegitimate ban mentioned above.
So either you really have a flaw in your "automatic tools" or you targeted our server.
This right here is a prime example of your poor system. A server with no history and no account history gets banned automatically?
It was banned before I even had a chance to add it. We launched our beta, hit 500 players -> I attempted to add the server -> Your server is banned.
Why would you rely on this method, how is a server supposed to have a successful launch if they are banned for their success.
If your spoof detection is so accurate, rely on that, not on nonsense like this.
Our reputation is fine. I haven't talked to one person that likes you or thinks you aren't corrupt.
I don't think you would sacrifice your great cash cow server list by removing all other top servers. You need servers for people to go to your list, I doubt it would do too well, but maybe you could fit more Hexera ads that way. Why target us specifically, I don't know, it's either you feel Hexera is threatened or it really is your automatic tools and they have a serious flaw.
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First, a 24 hour ban is not a warning. This would be detrimental to a server's launch, thankfully we have our own following.
Put yourself in a server owner's shoes where they launch their server, and for whatever reason trigger your "automatic banishment" that seems to work so well judging from the countless threads in the section. I wonder how many server launches your system has ruined.
I have an idea. If you can detect spoof accurately enough, why don't you just report the correct number of players, at least then you would not falsely ban servers, you would just have the wrong count. If you cannot detect accurately enough, well that's why you have so many threads.
Yes the players_online table wasn't cleared because it happens on shutdown and startup and we had a crash, it's nothing with the code, it's the process.
It was unexpected and the entire team was debugging the situation and handling communication with the community. I did not notice the online list was still cached.
I don't think that justifies a 24 hour ban as I mentioned above.
Here is a proof, screenshot of send email to Syntax:
Proof that you sent a "warning"? I'm not sure we ever disputed that you sent an email. We said you banished us three times. First last year, second as this "warning" and the final ban. So yes, nice email, and thanks for including my name.
The main reason for this thread is no other complaints against you seem to go noticed. Do you think we really need to be on your list, or we need "free publicity". We've handled promoting and running campaigns already. Notice we have players before this thread.
Everything in that post of mine was truth. I don't know if you can't read, but as I said the list was cached in the database.
The "warning" ban is iffy, but okay, I was even somewhat okay with it. In the post you linked I was trying to be civil.
The final ban, however, since we decided to disable the cast system entirely took a few seconds to apply a change. We were offline for the time it took the server to boot up (as I said before the table is cleared on startup). It was cleared almost immediately. That was our last downtime, we were in your list before we went down. Later on I heard we were removed from your list.
That is a ridiculous response time for an automated ban.
The 613 was the first warning "ban". The 913 was the final ban, yes. This was definitely the illegitimate ban mentioned above.
So either you really have a flaw in your "automatic tools" or you targeted our server.
I believe you already know why they got banned with their live server so there is no need to repeat the text. About the beta server here comes another cynical manipulation. He mentioned that the server got automatically banned but he didn't mentin that it was unbanned THE SAME DAY after Syntax contacted me. I didn't do any problems and explained to Syntax why our system banned the server (huge number of players on the server without history added from the account without any history). More info about it is here: https://otland.net/threads/the-ox-server-pre-banned.231046/#post-2229711
And here is a screenshot of what Syntax said then about that post and whole situation:
The post is here if you want to check it: https://otland.net/threads/the-ox-server-pre-banned.231046/#post-2230138
This right here is a prime example of your poor system. A server with no history and no account history gets banned automatically?
It was banned before I even had a chance to add it. We launched our beta, hit 500 players -> I attempted to add the server -> Your server is banned.
Why would you rely on this method, how is a server supposed to have a successful launch if they are banned for their success.
If your spoof detection is so accurate, rely on that, not on nonsense like this.
Our reputation is fine. I haven't talked to one person that likes you or thinks you aren't corrupt.
I don't think you would sacrifice your great cash cow server list by removing all other top servers. You need servers for people to go to your list, I doubt it would do too well, but maybe you could fit more Hexera ads that way. Why target us specifically, I don't know, it's either you feel Hexera is threatened or it really is your automatic tools and they have a serious flaw.
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