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I would not trust that Trans-late guy, he's often drunk and his translations can be confuse sometimes.

Yea there are some traps where I've felt with him/her 

Ya sadly had to pull out when the NL provider we were "renting" from went to shit (as I am sure you remember all of the ups and downs with them beginning of 2016).

Can only hope the demand will be greater and we will step foot overseas again and test the waters

yep I do remember well you were good provider, there's no doubt I wouldn't recommend / use your services if you just had shit to provide. NA players have easy job, all they need to do is to trust in six letters: v o r t e x

I didn't reply because Wickid already wrote about hosters.at first. If Vortex Servers would still have servers in Europe I'd recommend them, but they are not here anymore and we have only a few providers left. BIG, IGC, Hosp Paradise, Watnc, wAa, $k!t and QX are all running on same provider, and as a service they work well.

Vortex Servers and Hoster.at are using the same gamepanel to administrate the server. It's easy to use, when ever someone needs help with it, do not hesitate to ask.

Junk is having another provider for his server, I don't remember what was the provider, their gamepanel is very different than what Vortex and Hosters are using but still all makes sense if you know what you're doing.

Hosters costs for 1€/slot, I'm very satisfied with their product, but I'm very unsatisfied with their customer care.

edit: all in all I don't have anything else to recommend than Hosters.at, visit Junks server and have a look how it works.

There is no provider that you could use to avoid the crashes there has been.

it is just frustrating - didn't mean to attack you
so as i understand you it is actually 1 single person doing this
so what do the assist hosts or the provider or whatever say ? surely they don't like some retard hacking their services ?
I admit I got no clue what is going on here and I am not prepared to aquire this knowledge cause I will never need it anyway - It is just a pity that there doesn't seem to be a fix to the problem so far
so thanks for trying to solve the issue

Lord-of-War 

The problem in Dedicated Denial of Service attack for the victims is that they most likely will never get evidence who really is behind the attacks. Logs are full of IP's showing only that there is someone attacking but they for example fake IP's or jacked devices delivering the attack.

Then again there are more than one way to attack so blocking the attacks is hard, nearly impossible.

You mentioned me in your first post, just to let you know I have tried to open eyes of this community for this shit for months already - otherwise I'm not the one dealing with issue, just writing down what I see and what you should see as well.

I just comment on this to say I removed the previous post because I realised there's no chance that you'd be the one I thought you was.

Then again, hwid's and mac addresses are unique, IP connection is different, that wouldn't reject the activation straight away.

You can post your old accounts as a battletracker link to this thread, although like I said they see very well if your computer is recently used to play this game.

There are two ways to get server forcing text to be scrolling at console. One way is to repeat Welcome Message / Message Of The Day -lines by enabling repeatmessage from system/aa25.ini. These are boolean values where 0 is false and 1 is true. Most likely you don't want to use this method just to scroll text in console, so keep repeatmessage disabled

repeatmessage=0
I'm using services from two providers here as an example. If you rent a server from Vortex Servers (NA servers), you most likely have servermessage.cfg file at system/pb folder. If you rent a server from Hosters.at (EU servers) you most likely don't have this file ready for your use. I'm not familiar how it is with other providers nor home servers. If the file exists at system/pb folder, delete it.

Have a look at this forum post: http://aao25.com/forum/general-chat-90/server-messeseg-question/msg16328/#msg16328 and download the serverrules.zip file uploaded by Ru$tY.

Open serverrules.cfg from the .zip file with such a text editor that would be able to show the file in correct encoding format, guess basic Notepad would work in Windows, TextWrangler works for Mac users. Linux nerds are able to find themselves the program what to use

As you can see from the file, server messages will be posted with pb_sv_task [time1] [time2] say command. [time1] is just an order number in which order will the messages be shown. Note that it'll go from the highest value to the smallest one, it kind of prints the message upside down. TIME2 is the frequency in seconds that the message repeats, like -[sVs]-Beamer is saying at other thread.

Correct encoding of the file seems to western. If you mess up the encoding, those colour codes provided by Ru$tY. at the end of his serverrules.cfg file wont work.

Note that in Ru$tY.'s post they have differently named files, I'm not sure would it still work like they were guiding back in 2012, but nowadays system/pb/servermessage.cfg file is the one that will be shown in console as a scrolling message once it's placed into system/pb/ folder.

So once you have downloaded the .zip file uploaded by Ru$tY. just edit the content of his serverrules.cfg the way you want and change the colours how you'd like them to be. When you're done, don't just save the file straight away, use Save As feature to be sure you save it in correct encoding format. Also you need to rename the file, so save it as servermessage.cfg.

When you have created new servermessage.cfg file in correct encoding format (western), go to your server administration / game panel, or navigate to the correct folder via ftp or locally if you're using home server, have a look into system/pb folder if servermessage.cfg file exists, if it does then delete it. When there's no such a file at the folder anymore just upload your recently created servermessage.cfg to the system/pb folder and when it's there, restart your server to get your changes to work.

If you edit the servermessage.cfg file via web browser, where content of servermessage.cfg is opened inside of textarea to be able to edit it, submitting the edit form will change the encoding of the file to UTF-8 and colours wont work anymore. Also when you open western encoded file in web form you wont see the content correctly since the web form doesn't understand such encoding as western.

All the credits goes to Ru$tY. who took time to solve this back in the days.

Just to be clear, i don't have any grudge against you, since i don't even know you. Pit is a low life idiot, i argued with Jonny and who ever unbanned him 3 or 4 years ago. What concerns me is how this shit have been dealed since the beginning, since the PERSONAL issues, are destroying the game, you took part of it but, as i said before, so as admins.

I don't want make any futurology but, honestly, if you ignored him or made the problem private do you believe, the things were where they are now?

The reason for him to do this shit ( follow where I play and crash the server ) is because he blames on me of his bans, he has no mirror where to look at. He caused his own bans himself, I had nothing to do with it. I dont know why he wants to kill the game

It was he causing always the public drama, too bad his threads are deleted. I honestly dont know what I should have done differently back then with him. What should have been done in general was that he should have been banned immediately when it was clear what accounts he was using.