MGC 24/7 Hallway uk is gone

[enderxenomorph]

hello.

when i was some weeks not playing(technical difficulties with openspades on windows, fixed now) i stumbled a week ago on the fact that my(almost) favorite server was gone:MGC hallway.
what happened to it?????

[longbyte1]

Most likely, riperinos in serverinos. (Server probably shut down due to inactivity or $$$ issue)

[enderxenomorph]

no the server counted bots as players(fakeplayercount,when it has 32 players you still can join) so it got banned by the admins from the serverlist.json.

[longbyte1]

oh, at least you found out for yourself.

[sofpyxis]

Hi,

I am the server owner for the |MGC| servers and can inform you that the reason the server was down for a period of time was that I was busy running my business and hadn't had time to keep checking the server was still running. Work will be very busy over the next four months so i'll try to keep a better eye on things for the loyal players using the servers.

Unfortunately work comes first!

The dedicated server I run at my office has a 100mbit connection for which I use it to run many things, including game servers for when I need to wind down. Open Spades is free, and as long as I have an interest in providing free servers for people to play on they will be running. Money isn't relevant for the purpose of their running.

Not sure what enderxenomorph means regarding bots being counted as players but the Open Spades servers are all just straight forward 'vanilla' types that have no changes at all made to them. They are essentially as they would be 'out of the box'.

Well, i'm glad players like the servers and I hope that the ping is good for you all.

If anyone wishes for a modded server at any point just drop me a pm or email.

Thanks,

sofpyxis.

[Dare]

no the server counted bots as players(fakeplayercount,when it has 32 players you still can join) so it got banned by the admins from the serverlist.json.

That was a different server called Hallway Elevators (Gone Wrong) and was hosted by Scoper and it got banned by fake playercount, this server is hosted by someone else and doesn't have that many scripts on it, such as bots, mortars or tanks.

[Marisa Kirisame]

I am the server owner for the |MGC| servers

Protip, get some admins to watch your server. Not me, though.
Another protip, enable the IRC bot and set up a channel on some network, preferably NOT QuakeNet (EsperNet is decent - seriously, QuakeNet sucks balls). You'll also want the ratio + accuracy + hackinfo + blockinfo (/gc) scripts, and you'll ALSO want to ask Aloha to see if they can provide their hack detection script.

[longbyte1]

Not that Aloha will ever provide it. Remember, they want people to join THEIR servers.

[sofpyxis]

I am the server owner for the |MGC| servers

Protip, get some admins to watch your server. Not me, though.
Another protip, enable the IRC bot and set up a channel on some network, preferably NOT QuakeNet (EsperNet is decent - seriously, QuakeNet sucks balls). You'll also want the ratio + accuracy + hackinfo + blockinfo (/gc) scripts, and you'll ALSO want to ask Aloha to see if they can provide their hack detection script.

Thanks for the tips. :)

I am taking onboard suggestions and am in the process of recruiting players to admin the servers. Hopefully i'll be on top of any problems soon.

[Marisa Kirisame]

Not that Aloha will ever provide it. Remember, they want people to join THEIR servers.

Might as well try. After all, they provided...

OK, Aloha provided their shared banlist to Minit. It was a_girl who wrote the good anti-hack script on his testdrive server, which ended up on Minit, and then passed on to Aloha.

But I do suspect Aloha will be OK with providing it if you have a decent reputation.