[Bob]

A person called UnknowmPlayer (yes, thats his name, I acknowledge the spelling error hah) has shown suspicious activity. I found him alone on a server, and shortly after approaching him things started acting unresponsive and he went invisible. About 3 seconds after running around I lost connection and the server fell off the master list.

I find him again at the GTA.ru server. Things are fine for a while. I finally go up to him again, I have trouble walking and he kills me. I /goto him. Then I find my CMDs won't work and the game starts to act weird as it did before. Shortly after I find just about every player including myself suddenly disconnects from the server in a similar crash to before, however this time it remains on the master list.

Is it possible for a player to be crashing a server, by accident or even on purpose? It seems a little odd to me, either he is causing crashes or they are following him. Was wondering if anyone else knows this player and has noted similar occurrences? May have been a coincidence but it striked me as very odd.

[Bob]

Thats terrible D:

I wonder if he is trying to impersonate someone to destroy their reputation? Very odd.

[[TZC]Striker]

Person impersonation is very controversial in LU right now.

For any problems, check his/her ip address first if its matched between the real one and the one who is impersonating.

[[TZC]Striker]

Just to add to this, while at the GTA.ru server the arguably infamous player KAS, who I hear is some 11 year old who has a really poor temper with people, came out of nowhere and posted this in chat before leaving suddenly. My game started acting weird, just like the times described in my topic post above, and I disconnected.

I took a snapshot. Makes me wonder if KAS is the "UnknowmPlayer" which would make sense as his English is pretty bad.

Surprised he isn't banned from the server already. He is pretty bad company haha.

EDIT:  This happened another 3 times (but it took him about 10 minutes so it was a minor inconvenience). I scared him away when I revealed I was taking photos of it, but its a warning to all.

You know [LT]KAS is an admin of that server, he can do that as many times as he want. And no other admins complain about his actions.

[Bob]

Ah. Explains why I was warned away from it by another player.

I wondered if he admined it at first but there was considerable delay between random kicks so I figured it couldn't have been the reason.

[VRocker]

Is it too much to ask that if people find bugs that can crash the server, that they report it to us?
Would love to know how its being crashed so i can patch it.

[silent_218]

The reason of crashing in gta.ru server is what someone new doesn't write /login password - then all players lost the connection because of it.

[Bob]

Wow that is a strange exploit. At least it can be fixed now its out in the open.

[stormeus]

Is it too much to ask that if people find bugs that can crash the server, that they report it to us?
Would love to know how its being crashed so i can patch it.

Unfortunately, there are some people who would much rather abuse bugs to their advantage. I really don't care if someone posts his IP here because of "zomg privacy," I'd rather have this guy subnet banned across every server in LU.

[VetalYA]

Is it too much to ask that if people find bugs that can crash the server, that they report it to us?
Would love to know how its being crashed so i can patch it.

About KAS...

I dont want to create panic, but I think it will be very hard to find out.
Any bug  (or hack) that he have  found, makes he like a King. He very paranoid i am in doubt, that he will say how he hack.

To all: By the way, KAS is not a Server admin of GTA.ru server.

Is it too much to ask that if people find bugs that can crash the server, that they report it to us?
Would love to know how its being crashed so i can patch it.

I really don't care if someone posts his IP here because of "zomg privacy," I'd rather have this guy subnet banned across every server in LU.

This is a good idea i think. We can create a "Community of Server Owners" (here on forums if administration don't mind, or somewhere else forums) and post in topics - IPs of hackers, abusers, scamers, etc.

[Thijn]

We could make a global lookout list.

[stormeus]

We could make a global lookout list.

This would work out much better than a global ban list.

[SugarD]

Is it too much to ask that if people find bugs that can crash the server, that they report it to us?
Would love to know how its being crashed so i can patch it.

*Cough* Beta Testers *Cough*

We could make a global lookout list.

If KAS is banned from the Master Server list, it would be more effective. If he is abusing bugs within the software itself to indiscriminately crash servers, it's abuse of the LU Master Server and it's related mods and networks, which would constitute his removal from it's usage.

[Bob]

I didn't really support banning KAS until now.

He's been crashing a lot of servers now, even those that are populated, bragging about his ability to do so. That's when he isn't spamming or lagging the place up to avoid bullets. With a small online community its hard to avoid coming into contact with him, and he is very unpleasant to the point I've witnessed people leave servers angrily. Its not a thing a place like this could do with. I think I speak for everyone when I say there is no want for a person who makes it their business to put people off playing, when ideally it'd be good to attract more players.

[SugarD]

Well if he really is indiscriminately attacking servers to crash them, I don't see a reason why he shouldn't be banned from the Master Server list. He's assaulting via the bugs in the mod itself, not a specific server's issues.