Jordan Nicole Posted August 25, 2013 Posted August 25, 2013 Let us know when dynmap is up again, then.
Oakiedokie Posted September 14, 2013 Posted September 14, 2013 Howdy, got a new account so I could just use Oak, way easier
Allison Potter Posted September 15, 2013 Author Posted September 15, 2013 Server will be down till we get things back in line, we have 7 days of backup. Waiting for a reply from the hoster.
Allison Potter Posted September 15, 2013 Author Posted September 15, 2013 My biggest apologies in the last mess of hackers. It seems that when you try to do something nice, there is always someone there to ruin it for the rest. I am sorry if you lost work, and sorry about abandoning the server. But, it is such a pain in the ass to run and now it's just a huge mess and I don't have the patience to fix it. I guess what I am saying is running a server sucks ass, before you try it, think again. I hope you had fun for the time we have played together, I will forget no one, even the jerks. This is however goodbye. If you want to complain, complain to the people that hacked us. Fairwell all. If you would like to keep in contact send me a message and I will add you to gmail, or gtalk if you didn't get enough of my meanness. :)
Oakiedokie Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 Crap Same here I guess, message me and stuff, I'll share my gmail with you all.
oawizeguy Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 Well this does blow indeed. So, someone got on the server and trashed it? I am going to start playing on plows server I guess. Its got all the latest stuff, i just think it takes a bit more of a computer to run it well. (i may be wrong) Its called jacksoncraft. Ill ask him about letting everyone know about it. Going to make sure before announcing the ip and all that crap. I think he whitelists too Cruleman
Discord Moderator plowmanplow Posted September 15, 2013 Discord Moderator Posted September 15, 2013 Solid props to Ally for starting up the server and building a community of folks who love to play, help, and hang with each other. Could never thank her enough. I have some resources floating around and would like to have a place where folks can hang out again. So, a question to contemplate is what kind of server would y'all like to play on? The two easy options are: The New Tekkit (TekkitMain) Easy to use. Would just select Tekkit instead of Tekkit Lite from the launcher Fairly current with available mods. Quite fun to play JacksonCraft (custom pack by me) Slightly more resource intensive All of what is in the new Tekkit plus IC2, Railcraft, Forestry, ExtraBiomesXL and many more Still fairly simple, but requires clicking the "Add Pack" button in the launcher and pasting in a pack URL Thoughts?
oawizeguy Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 First off, Ally, would it be possible to get the world back up and we could redirect people to a new server, depending on what Plow decides? Maybe a few signs at spawn or something? I like both options for a server. I am currently wasting my time on the Jacksoncraft server. I like the addition of items, but it might be hard to get a base of players if there are additional steps involved. Getting new players would be a challenge as well. I think the situation to get new players and keep a lot of the old ones would be to have a tekkit server. Easy to find and no additional files to add.
33high Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 Can you send me the IP for Jackson craft, and the pack details? I don't think we should kill the server entirely, but if the map is ruined, perhaps we need to start from scratch. Circle Craft is the friendliest server I've seen yet, and i'd hate to see the players disperse. BTW, what actually happened to the server?
Discord Moderator plowmanplow Posted September 15, 2013 Discord Moderator Posted September 15, 2013 There is a temporary tekkit lite server on the old address "tekkitlite.circlecraft.info" just to assure folks that we still exist. I think we are going to focus on getting the New Tekkit server up first, then we'll see about JacksonCraft. JC will take a bit longer because there are SO MANY mods and items that getting everything we can to be grief protected is more of a challenge.
33high Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 So, apparently, spawn was nuked, after a troll, or angry player hacked in, used creative (he may have used ally's name) and decimated our builds. At the old address, there is a server being run by plow, and you can play there until we sort this mess out.
Discord Moderator plowmanplow Posted September 15, 2013 Discord Moderator Posted September 15, 2013 Looks like we are going to try running a TekkitLite server while we work on getting something fancier up and running (probably JacksonCraft). Everyone is welcome back. Rules are mostly the same.
Allison Potter Posted September 15, 2013 Author Posted September 15, 2013 In case you didn't get wind of what happened, someone got on and used an exploit to gain access to the server using my account and destroyed a lot of stuff. When I tried to run the backup the VPS crashed and the hoster couldn't fix it without re-installing the OS, which meant deleting everything. Like all VPSs the backup data was on the VPS itself. So in the interest of the people on the server I figured it would be better to shut down rather than risk bring more nasty crap to the wonderful people that made circlecraft what it was. That being the case, I have school and lots of other things going on, will soon be doing residency as well, and my ability to keep the server going was time limited anyways. I made the server thinking I would set it up and then let the admins do the main work, however that don't really work so well as there are lots of things they can't really do. I still enjoyed it all, and given the chance I wouldn't ever change that. Think of things as a chance to start new and maybe upgrade if everyone goes for that as well.
33high Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 So, it happened again. LOLJesusDied, from Team Lixo, came onto the revamped server, and replicated what he had done before. HE says that someone on the server put a poisoned plugin into bukkit. As long as the community stays together, we can resolve this. (P.S.-this time the dude hacked in as plow)
oawizeguy Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 Oh well, the show will go on. Too bad some douchnozzle that probably lives in his parents basement, has zero life, and probably has no friends has to ruin it for people that actually have fun...We will figure it out and be back up in no time. With all the added logs and protection on this server, will be easy to track them down now.
33high Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 Apparently, Team Lixo does server greifing for a past time, check out the YouTube channel "TeamLixo"
33high Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 It is was informative to se the vid of them griefing another server. http://www.youtube.com/user/teamlixo/featured . They used a few simple hacks to ruin other entire servers. In the future, I think that anyone from Team Lixo should be automatically banned. They had a chance, and blew it big time.
Jordan Nicole Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 there's still going to be a million backups before plow even gets back on.
oawizeguy Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 It seems that its just a bunch of kids. Not even hackers. One was smart enough to read someone elses hack. So they all get together on their mommies computers and exploit a known error in older software. At first I thought it was actually some important group. Team Lixo, heh heh. They called themselves Team Lixo. More like team Lamo. I tracked one so far. Getting info from his IP provider this week. His mom might get mad when they lose their internet. All we need to do is go to a newer mod because they have no idea how to actually hack.
Discord Moderator plowmanplow Posted September 16, 2013 Discord Moderator Posted September 16, 2013 Don't worry folks. I'll have it back up shortly. There are plenty of backups. As sad as it may sound, Green said it correctly when he said that nothing, when given enough time and or focus is unhackable. I've been dealing with this in one form or another for decades at this point. The best we can do is stick together as a group and weather the storm. Sure, I'll do what I can to keep it from happening, but I also don't want to seem like I'm throwing down the gauntlet. I'm not. Because we are using software and systems made by others we don't have alternatives for providing the services we want and therefore cannot go to a better/different product. Hopefully some enterprising person or group will figure out how the authentication system is being compromised and provide a fix. Y'all are great and we appreciate you sticking around! I'm taking the opportunity of it being down at the moment to increase the disk space allocation. Back in businesss asap. And please, don't egg anyone on. Belittling anyone, whether it be MC or life in general, seldom yields positive results. Whether these griefers are writing code to perform the hacks, or simply using someone else's tools or techniques makes little difference. Just give a nod the the effort involved, tip your hat as you pass, and move on down the boardwalk.
Jordan Nicole Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 Thanks for everything, Plow. Glad you're going to this effort just to keep us together. You and Ally are always a joy to work with, and I'm sure others feel just the same as well. Cheers and all. Edit: I should of brought my labtop to school, darnit. Bored out of my mind, I could be mining for heavens sake!
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