Advanced In-Game Admin and Ban Enforcer - AdKats

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Yes, as if someone would use the /shutdown command. However, no admin used this command.

 

 

 

No, according to Fail.log the server gets restarted.

 

Will talk to the support again... because I can't really believe that AdKats is causing it. Thank you anyway.

Don't take it as an insult I included that command as a possible reason for this happening, I'm covering my bases stating the only ways server restarts can happen through this plugin. I can't just dismiss user error as a possible cause of issues. Cheers.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Last night I added a feature per request. A list of case-insensitive filter phrases/keywords can now be added to control which bans get posted to metabans.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Mamba334*:

 

I have a quick question. The plugin works as it should, but last night our admins were trying to issue commands and players were trying to !rules (request rules). It was all set on deny? I haven't touched a thing. I went in and set it all to allow like it was and everything is fine now. My question is, when you restart the plugin or server, do we need to go in and do this every time or is there a quick "allow" setting I'm not seeing?

 

Thanks for any help given.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Mamba334*:

 

Any of you had this issue?

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

I have a quick question. The plugin works as it should, but last night our admins were trying to issue commands and players were trying to !rules (request rules). It was all set on deny? I haven't touched a thing. I went in and set it all to allow like it was and everything is fine now. My question is, when you restart the plugin or server, do we need to go in and do this every time or is there a quick "allow" setting I'm not seeing?

 

Thanks for any help given.

No, everything you set should remain active. Which version are you running? There was a bug a while back where that could happen when modifying groups in section 4-2, but not other places.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by SmackDown*:

 

Last night I added a feature per request. A list of case-insensitive filter phrases/keywords can now be added to control which bans get posted to metabans.

Thank you for your efforts. All of our server have been down for the last 3 1/2 days due to server provider hardware issues. Our servers are up and running at this time. I believe I understand what I need to do now to get only the bans I want to be submitted to metabans.

 

I have one question about how to submit one type of bans. How do I list the bans from Adkats from the HSK Checker, KPM Checker, and DPS Checker. I want these bans to be submitted to metabans and I am not sure how I should list them in the filter list.

 

Thank you for your time in creating this feature for me and taking the time to answer my questions. I know your busy and must not have much time to do anything else with all the questions and problems submitted to you!

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Thank you for your efforts. All of our server have been down for the last 3 1/2 days due to server provider hardware issues. Our servers are up and running at this time. I believe I understand what I need to do now to get only the bans I want to be submitted to metabans.

 

I have one question about how to submit one type of bans. How do I list the bans from Adkats from the HSK Checker, KPM Checker, and DPS Checker. I want these bans to be submitted to metabans and I am not sure how I should list them in the filter list.

 

Thank you for your time in creating this feature for me and taking the time to answer my questions. I know your busy and must not have much time to do anything else with all the questions and problems submitted to you!

All it does is look at the ban reason, so you can include pieces of your hacker-checker ban message in the list if you want those submitted.

 

e.g. our auto-ban messages all contain 'automatic' in them, so we used that to post those.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by SmackDown*:

 

All it does is look at the ban reason, so you can include pieces of your hacker-checker ban message in the list if you want those submitted.

 

e.g. our auto-ban messages all contain 'automatic' in them, so we used that to post those.

Thank you!

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Mamba334*:

 

I am currently updated to the latest version. The admins are upset because they can't move to the losing team to help them out and I have it set to allow. I'm still waiting on someone to respond back to the MB plugin thread, so I can see if it's conflicting with anything.

 

Thanks for responding. I do apologize for my frustrations previously. I just want everything to work. We went from 32 players to 46 and server stays full each night, but the two issues are coming from adkats and mb.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

I am currently updated to the latest version. The admins are upset because they can't move to the losing team to help them out and I have it set to allow. I'm still waiting on someone to respond back to the MB plugin thread, so I can see if it's conflicting with anything.

 

Thanks for responding. I do apologize for my frustrations previously. I just want everything to work. We went from 32 players to 46 and server stays full each night, but the two issues are coming from adkats and mb.

AdKats automatically overrides the MB unswitcher when move commands are issued, so there is no conflict there.

 

What happens when they issue the move commands?

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Mamba334*:

 

Nothing happens.

 

When they do !fmove nothing happens. When they do !move nothing happens.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Nothing happens.

 

When they do !fmove nothing happens. When they do !move nothing happens.

Something happens, unless you've disabled AdKats, disabled those commands completely, or changed the in-game text for them.

 

Are they just being denied access?

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Mamba334*:

 

They were at first and that's when I went in and set it from Deny back to Allow.

 

I have not changed a thing in there since you set it up for me, except for when I had to set it back to allow under Role Settings.

 

When they type those commands, the players don't move. I was thinking they have to maybe turn off mb then do it and turn mb back on? AdKats is always enabled.

 

 

I'm about to get off work. Thank you for the insights. I'll dig more into this this evening.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

They were at first and that's when I went in and set it from Deny back to Allow.

 

I have not changed a thing in there since you set it up for me, except for when I had to set it back to allow under Role Settings.

 

When they type those commands, the players don't move. I was thinking they have to maybe turn off mb then do it and turn mb back on? AdKats is always enabled.

 

 

I'm about to get off work. Thank you for the insights. I'll dig more into this this evening.

Do they get an error when trying to issue the move? Are they denied access?

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

In the next couple weeks i'm releasing more features for the hacker-checker's LIVE system. We've been internally testing these for several months and they are ready for the public now.

 

This system uses live stats to ban players that have wildly abnormal behavior while playing. The basic metrics it uses are HSK and KPM with a fair amount of code defining what constitutes abnormal based on number of kills, weapon types, player rank, etc. It has helped us remove many problem players with a minimal amount of false positives disputed. This system works across BF3 and BF4 but is not implemented for hardline yet.

 

This will be just an enable/disable with no severity options for now, and will be opt-in.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Mamba334*:

 

In the next couple weeks i'm releasing more features for the hacker-checker's LIVE system. We've been internally testing these for several months and they are ready for the public now.

 

This system uses live stats to ban players that have wildly abnormal behavior while playing. The basic metrics it uses are HSK and KPM with a fair amount of code defining what constitutes abnormal based on number of kills, weapon types, player rank, etc. It has helped us remove many problem players with a minimal amount of false positives disputed. This system works across BF3 and BF4 but is not implemented for hardline yet.

 

This will be just an enable/disable with no severity options for now, and will be opt-in.

This is awesome! Thanks! I am constantly seeing players get banned for the already hacker checker that it came with. This is a good update!

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by Mamba334*:

 

Do they get an error when trying to issue the move? Are they denied access?

I didn't get to check on this last night, Cleaner, so I'll be sure to let you know what is what after our team meeting tomorrow.

 

Cheers!

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by www-battleplay4u-com*:

 

Hi CCC,

 

we had 3 magic bullet bans in the last days on our graveyard shift server. I'm not sure, if they're correct:

 

http://neu.bp4uadmin.de/players/222280/ExA_NiKiTa

http://neu.bp4uadmin.de/players/635351/AnneFrankk

http://neu.bp4uadmin.de/players/217292/SubUrbanSouljah

 

I tried it with that BLog service you mentioned before, but i didn't really get how it works....

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Hi CCC,

 

we had 3 magic bullet bans in the last days on our graveyard shift server. I'm not sure, if they're correct:

 

http://neu.bp4uadmin.de/players/222280/ExA_NiKiTa

http://neu.bp4uadmin.de/players/635351/AnneFrankk

http://neu.bp4uadmin.de/players/217292/SubUrbanSouljah

 

I tried it with that BLog service you mentioned before, but i didn't really get how it works....

You can only use the report trick if you have the battlelog reports from when the players were banned. You will need to look through you plugin logs to see what the weapon codes were around the time these players were banned. Right before it issues the ban it will send a log message containing the player's weapon codes. Send those.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by www-battleplay4u-com*:

 

thx, i'll check that.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by GitSum*:

 

Col - if our server is moved and changes IP addresses, how will that effect Adkats? (we would like to keep server reps, etc if we can)

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Col - if our server is moved and changes IP addresses, how will that effect Adkats? (we would like to keep server reps, etc if we can)

While your layer is shut down to change the server IP its connected to also modify the IP/port of that server in your database so it connects the new server to the old server's ID. This info is in the tbl_server table.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by GitSum*:

 

While your layer is shut down to change the server IP its connected to also modify the IP/port of that server in your database so it connects the new server to the old server's ID. This info is in the tbl_server table.

Looks easy enough - I am glad I asked, thanks

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by SmackDown*:

 

Regarding the 'Monitor/Disperse Top Players' feature of Adkats. I have read the documentation regarding this feature and I still have some questions about it. Could you advise what it the criteria used for the below terms:

 

Best only

Good and Above

Ok and Above

 

I am not sure which setting would be the best to use for my servers since I have no idea what the criteria is for each item. Also, How do I read the below information about each player that it list such as shown below:

 

(-) (0.56|5) COC088

 

Thank you for your help.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

Regarding the 'Monitor/Disperse Top Players' feature of Adkats. I have read the documentation regarding this feature and I still have some questions about it. Could you advise what it the criteria used for the below terms:

 

Best only

Good and Above

Ok and Above

 

I am not sure which setting would be the best to use for my servers since I have no idea what the criteria is for each item. Also, How do I read the below information about each player that it list such as shown below:

 

(-) (0.56|5) COC088

 

Thank you for your help.

Basically that severity setting allows you to restrict how many players the system will act on. If you want it to affect most ok players, then use that setting, etc. We have ours set on OK, but I added the other severity levels because some people only wanted the very best players being acted on by this system.

 

That list item shows info about the player it will use for balance of top players.

 

The first thing is a position indicator:

 

(-) means the player is offline

(+) means the player is online but not assigned a team yet

(teamKey) the key for the team they are currently on and assigned to, e.g. RU or US

(teamA -> teamB) the system has assigned them to teamB, but they are currently on teamA, so it's trying to move them. This will only apply to players joining mid-match, otherwise this system avoids moving these players mid-match.

 

now for the stats:

 

The first number in that section is the main balance stat it uses for splitting; it is the percentage of times that player has been top scoring in the server over however many rounds they've played. Top scoring being top 1/4 of the server, with a few modifiers in special cases. In that player's case he's in the top 1/4 in the server about 56% of the time. Online players in this list are ordered by that stat between rounds then split onto teams in order so each team has the same number of top scoring players, ordered by potency. This serves to stop stacking before it starts and is a compromise between the two extremes of balance.

 

The second number is simply the number of rounds the player has completed while the system was active.

 

EDIT: For that severity level, use it to control how many online players its monitoring. I've found that the system controlling about 10-15 players out of the 64 is optimal, but that can change based on time of day and players online.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by imammansur*:

 

I have posted a reply on this topic about a error i got from adkats plugin. 2 days past admin didnt place my reply. I got error I get this error message:ERROR-6800

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by imammansur*:

 

I get this error message:

 

[17:31:32 15] In-Game Admin Disabled =(

[17:31:32 85] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched 110 BF4 weapon stat definitions.

[17:31:33 35] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched reputation definitions.

[17:31:33 86] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched weapon names.

[17:31:34 36] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched special player group definitions.

[17:31:34 41] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [unable to confirm global timing. Global UTC Timestamp could not be fetched.]

[17:31:34 41] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Server IP is ..............

[17:31:34 96] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Database connection open.

[17:31:37 34] [AdKats] INFO: AdKats role groups table not found. Attempting to add.

[17:31:37 64] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [Non-Query failed. [Adding AdKats role groups table]: MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Cannot add foreign key constraint

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SafeExecuteNonQuery(MySqlComma nd command)

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SendNonQuery(String desc, String nonQuery, Boolean verbose)]

[17:31:37 80] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [AdKats tables not present or valid in the database. Have you run the AdKats database setup script yet? If so, are your tables InnoDB_]

[17:31:37 80] [AdKats] INFO: Shutting down AdKats.

[17:31:38 00] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Database timing confirmed.

[17:31:39 92] [AdKats] AdKats 6.8.0.0 Disabled! =(

 

Procon chat guid etc is active.

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

I have posted a reply on this topic about a error i got from adkats plugin. 2 days past admin didnt place my reply. I got error I get this error message:ERROR-6800

Ok, i will need the whole error message.

 

Also use /pupdate to update your version to the latest.

[ImportBot]

Originally Posted by imammansur*:

 

I have updated the plugins. When i post the errorr message its says moderator will check the message before posting. And that was 2 days ago.

 

EDIT:

 

[17:31:32 15] In-Game Admin Disabled =(

[17:31:32 85] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched 110 BF4 weapon stat definitions.

[17:31:33 35] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched reputation definitions.

[17:31:33 86] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched weapon names.

[17:31:34 36] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched special player group definitions.

[17:31:34 41] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [unable to confirm global timing. Global UTC Timestamp could not be fetched.]

[17:31:34 41] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Server IP is ..............

[17:31:34 96] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Database connection open.

[17:31:37 34] [AdKats] INFO: AdKats role groups table not found. Attempting to add.

[17:31:37 64] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [Non-Query failed. [Adding AdKats role groups table]: MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Cannot add foreign key constraint

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SafeExecuteNonQuery(MySqlComma nd command)

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SendNonQuery(String desc, String nonQuery, Boolean verbose)]

[17:31:37 80] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [AdKats tables not present or valid in the database. Have you run the AdKats database setup script yet? If so, are your tables InnoDB_]

[17:31:37 80] [AdKats] INFO: Shutting down AdKats.

[17:31:38 00] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Database timing confirmed.

[17:31:39 92] [AdKats] AdKats 6.8.0.0 Disabled! =(

[ColColonCleaner]

Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

I have updated the plugins. When i post the errorr message its says moderator will check the message before posting. And that was 2 days ago.

 

EDIT:

 

[17:31:32 15] In-Game Admin Disabled =(

[17:31:32 85] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched 110 BF4 weapon stat definitions.

[17:31:33 35] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched reputation definitions.

[17:31:33 86] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched weapon names.

[17:31:34 36] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Fetched special player group definitions.

[17:31:34 41] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [unable to confirm global timing. Global UTC Timestamp could not be fetched.]

[17:31:34 41] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Server IP is ..............

[17:31:34 96] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Database connection open.

[17:31:37 34] [AdKats] INFO: AdKats role groups table not found. Attempting to add.

[17:31:37 64] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [Non-Query failed. [Adding AdKats role groups table]: MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Cannot add foreign key constraint

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SafeExecuteNonQuery(MySqlComma nd command)

at PRoConEvents.AdKats.SendNonQuery(String desc, String nonQuery, Boolean verbose)]

[17:31:37 80] [AdKats] ERROR-6800: [AdKats tables not present or valid in the database. Have you run the AdKats database setup script yet? If so, are your tables InnoDB_]

[17:31:37 80] [AdKats] INFO: Shutting down AdKats.

[17:31:38 00] [AdKats] SUCCESS: Database timing confirmed.

[17:31:39 92] [AdKats] AdKats 6.8.0.0 Disabled! =(

OK it looks like you have some invalid data in the roles table. Hmmm. PM me your db connection info and i'll fix it.