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ET anyone?

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:02 pm
by lumberpat
Hi all,

So, My friend is desperately trying to get an ET server started, however, if he can't get people to play on it, then he's not going to bother. Is there any serious interest in an american ET server?

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:11 pm
by Kazza
when i get my pc fixed i'll play :o

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:10 pm
by lumberpat
Oh my, I haven't posted in this section.

Our server is 8.6.76.188:27960 Come and play it has 15 slots, and we need people to frequent it! my xfire is lumberpat. let me know if you want to jump on.

Hope to see you guys there!

P.S. http://www.rareearth.forumarena.com/rar ... ad821.html If you need help getting ET reinstalled :)

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:39 am
by Kazza
tell them this ...

my et and my etqw keeps gettin kicked

PB Authentication Failure

i've tried pb setup
i've reinstalled pb
i've done everything

if they can fix it i'll play there everyday :o

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:01 pm
by lumberpat
hmm, that is wierd, i'll let them know. you know how tech savvy I am :)

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:30 pm
by BoBo
are you logged in as admin and have you tried running?
http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:09 pm
by lumberpat
maybe a manual pb update?

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:13 pm
by Kazza
been there done that :(

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:57 pm
by lumberpat
Does your friend have the PnkBstrA, PnkBstrB, and PnkBstrK services enabled on his computer? (see services.msc)
Is there a firewall on your friends computer?
Is the firewall letting these services out onto the Web?
Does your friend have an anti-virus program on his computer that blocks programs, such as McAfee VirusScan Enterprise?

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:12 am
by Kazza
i know its my firewall but i didnt even think i had one :S

so idk how to fix

Re: ET anyone?

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:34 pm
by m0pX
Maybe if Evenbalance learned to code there wouldn't be an issue, Kazza. Shouldn't need 2 services and a kernel-mode driver to "detect" cheats (and it even manages to fail at that with flying colors). They should take a lesson from Valve and VAC2. You see almost no cheating even on the worst-maintained of TF2/CSS/CS/etcetera pubs and instead of naming and shaming everyone who gets caught by PB all over the internet which causes them to rage (they are usually kids after all), get around the ban and cheat even more, VAC bans are all done silently and work on a system of strikes. Not to mention that VAC actually DETECTS cheats properly (as opposed to just looking at filenames, CVARs and hashes of modules and files open by the game then comparing them to a VERY incomplete, out of date database), doesn't force you to install what is essentially a rootkit and doesn't slow the hell out of your system. Oh, not to mention that VAC doesn't detect 10,000 false positives or prevent people from playing for absurd system/setup specific reasons, unlike PB. [/pb rant]

I guess I could drop by when I get around to reinstalling Linux on here (so I don't have to cope with the god-awful rootkit-esque Windows version of PB obviously), but I dunno what my ping will be like on US servers :/