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« on: Wednesday, June 08, 2016, 04:34:55 AM »
There are/have been (at least) three completely different things being discussed here:
1) someone might have DDoS'ed Merlin's server
2) Assist admins have the possibility to enter a server as an admin if they need to (not activated by default)
3) The pb power thing
1) A lot of those IPs came from Brazil and you immediately thought it was Possessed. However, the first few I checked were under a different ISP than Possessed. Besides seeing as they don't map to a specific location within the country, I'd say they're most likely proxies.
Not really an expert in the field, but just something 3 minutes of searching gave me.
2) It's always been the case and it was in fact the case before Assist. The possibilities are within the game and not Assist. Assist admins pay for this game running, we do so with our time. Most of you will probably not have a clue as to how much time this thing can suck.
As server admins should not abuse their right in their servers, we will not do so within our auth system. Again, similarly to server admins, we do retrain the right to act when necessary. As has been stated before, we do not and will not have admin right on any server by default.
We also have the possibility of banning servers from using our auth system. This has been done before as well (most typical (and only one I know of) reason is mods that allow for 2/10/100 kills per kill to be tracked - in other words basically cheating for points/kills/fragrate).
3) I really don't know much about the PB power thing. It might be that it also comes with the global admin right described above, but right now nobody has them enabled. As far as I know, Assist hasn't been updated for a good while so it can't be anything new in principle.