Hackers everywhere

[donpolilla]

After playing 3 hours Survival Games and only winning once (you can check my stats I am not that bad; got almost 450 wins), I feel I must post this because like 50% of the times I died was by a kill-aura, force field or regen hacker.

You may be thinking "he is a raging kid that can't win the survival games". But that's not the case, I am 17 years old and I know when I am good at something or not, and Minecraft PvP its not one of the things I am bad at.

So if u play MCSG quite a lot and you are more or less good at it you will have realized by now that the last 1 or 2 months have been horrible in amount of hackers in this server.

What could I do to solve this?

I could report every single hacker that I see, that's true, but it's not worth my time because hacks like kill aura are hard to detect if u are not fighting him and most of mods checking my report will think that it's not true. (That won't happen with regen and fly hacks, though)

The 2nd option to solve this was to be myself a moderator, but, surprisingly my application got denied for saying one single word to a stranger that was focusing me (that made me be banned for 24 hours).

The other funny thing is the anti sprint-hack plugin. It makes no sense, the Better Sprint Mod and things like that is the least dangerous mod / hack that is out there, and the plugin to prevent it is not letting me play properly, cause I get stopped by a magical power (the plugin) every minute, and have to Shift and to a ton of things to be able to continue sprinting.

(Oh! And if you see a mod or sr.mod modding at the lobby or modding in a game every 165 games, u are very very lucky)

So what I wanted to do with this thread? I want the Mods, Developers, Owner, etc. of this server to read this and realise what's going on in their server, because it seems that they are not playing the game that the create. I mean, they are doing a good work with plugins and maps and other stuff, but they are not seeing the actual server that fair people are playing (the ones that do not use hacks; maybe the 50% of the total) when they come online in MCSG. I also hope to see more moderators online and doing what they are supposed to do, because denying people's application that is investing over 3 hours a day on your server (up to 7) won't really help the server. If all that happened, MAYBE we could all have fun in this server again without having to feel very bad every time that a hacker kills you.

PD: I want to add that the fact of not perma-banning all hackers just makes more hackers come to the server, because, even me, when I get killed I feel like: "I could also use hacks and win every single game", but I am strong and I will never do it, cause then I am even worse than the hackers that killed me. But there is people every day starting to use hacks because of other hackers that aren't getting noticed (thousand of them...)

PD2: Sorry if there are sentences or words making no sense, English is not my daily-used language.

 

[tomasamee123]

Too Much Hackers Para Mi Body

 

[Tacoface1234]

Please search your topics before posting them, as you'll find they have often already been made. In this case, there is a currently active thread covering the same topic as this one (http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/hackers-on-mcsg.86749/) that you can post your thoughts on. There is no need for this thread on its own, so I will be locking it.

Regarding your application, an abusive moderator can do way more harm than any hacker, due to the powers they are given. We must be able to trust every person who receives the rank so they do not cause harm to the servers, and we don't trust those with past bans, no matter how active they may be. We get a massive amount of applications even if you don't count the illegitimate ones, so removing that standard wouldn't do much to stop rule breakers.

 

[Rusty]

The other funny thing is the anti sprint-hack plugin. It makes no sense, the Better Sprint Mod and things like that is the least dangerous mod / hack that is out there, and the plugin to prevent it is not letting me play properly, cause I get stopped by a magical power (the plugin) every minute, and have to Shift and to a ton of things to be able to continue sprinting.

First off, that's two different plugins. Our BSM plugin will kick anyone that has BSM installed before they can get in game. You are thinking of NCP, which was recently updated to attempt to prevent this issue. And removing a plugin that stops people hacking cannot be justified by 'it is the least dangerous hack'. We will do everything in our power to prevent users from hacking in game.

So what I wanted to do with this thread? I want the Mods, Developers, Owner, etc. of this server to read this and realise what's going on in their server, because it seems that they are not playing the game that the create. I mean, they are doing a good work with plugins and maps and other stuff, but they are not seeing the actual server that fair people are playing (the ones that do not use hacks; maybe the 50% of the total) when they come online in MCSG. I also hope to see more moderators online and doing what they are supposed to do, because denying people's application that is investing over 3 hours a day on your server (up to 7) won't really help the server. If all that happened, MAYBE we could all have fun in this server again without having to feel very bad every time that a hacker kills you.

We have minimum requirements. You did not meet the minimum requirements. Ergo, you weren't accepted as mod as we won't allow just any person to become mod. Complaining in a public thread certainly won't help. But we do play this game, I personally put a couple of hours a day in, and we have some of the admins and other developers doing live streams. We see what goes on in game, and we are well aware that hackers are a concern for our users. However, '50'% is hardly an accurate assumption.

If you wish to report any moderators you feel aren't doing their job correctly, please report it to a senior moderator and the case will be looked into.

PD: I want to add that the fact of not perma-banning all hackers just makes more hackers come to the server, because, even me, when I get killed I feel like: "I could also use hacks and win every single game", but I am strong and I will never do it, cause then I am even worse than the hackers that killed me. But there is people every day starting to use hacks because of other hackers that aren't getting noticed (thousand of them...)

We believe everyone deserves a second chance. People can change. Maybe that ban changed their view on things, because they want to continue to use our service. From a player-base and business look at things, an insta-perma would be a terrible idea, considering we also list client modifications under 'hacking' -- There are people out there who legitimately aren't aware that Rei's Minimap or BSM are illegal on the server.

- Rusty