Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

For those of us who'd like to donate to see our favorite world stay online.... any chance you'd be willing to tell us about what it costs to maintain a month? Or at lease an idea of how much would be a helpful donation? This.... it hasn't just been a place to rp for me. Baldur's Gate has given me an outlet for creativity and jumpstarted a lot of writing and poetry for myself and others I know. I'd like to give back.

DDoS Stacheldraht attack diagram.
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack where the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.[1] A DoS attack is analogous to a group of people crowding the entry door or gate to a shop or business, and not letting legitimate parties enter into the shop or business, disrupting normal operations.
Criminal perpetrators of DoS attacks often target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks or credit card payment gateways. Revenge, blackmail[2][3][4] and activism[5] can motivate these attacks.

Did anyone get banned recently?

Necrotic Shadows wrote:For those of us who'd like to donate to see our favorite world stay online.... any chance you'd be willing to tell us about what it costs to maintain a month? Or at lease an idea of how much would be a helpful donation? This.... it hasn't just been a place to rp for me. Baldur's Gate has given me an outlet for creativity and jumpstarted a lot of writing and poetry for myself and others I know. I'd like to give back.

I second that notion. Let us know what it costs. I haven't been involved in this much good RP in years. Maybe we, as a community can make it happen.

the worst part is now haven has the most people for an nwn2 server

Dalelands Beyond is still up.

Necrotic Shadows wrote:For those of us who'd like to donate to see our favorite world stay online.... any chance you'd be willing to tell us about what it costs to maintain a month? Or at lease an idea of how much would be a helpful donation? This.... it hasn't just been a place to rp for me. Baldur's Gate has given me an outlet for creativity and jumpstarted a lot of writing and poetry for myself and others I know. I'd like to give back.

Beep boop beep moderator redirecting to Server Treasury:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=52423
beeeeeeeeeeeeep

Tiberis79 wrote:

Necrotic Shadows wrote:For those of us who'd like to donate to see our favorite world stay online.... any chance you'd be willing to tell us about what it costs to maintain a month? Or at lease an idea of how much would be a helpful donation? This.... it hasn't just been a place to rp for me. Baldur's Gate has given me an outlet for creativity and jumpstarted a lot of writing and poetry for myself and others I know. I'd like to give back.

I second that notion. Let us know what it costs. I haven't been involved in this much good RP in years. Maybe we, as a community can make it happen.

I third.

About haven and daleland... Well not like it would be much of an attack...

Regardless of server affiliation this is an attack on the NWN2 community. Will keep my eyes and ears open here if I hear anything.

no worries to each their own ,

it most likely the same person at least sense i join the server..

honestly this thread should prolly just be removed or archieved., the person prolly loves going through it for lolz or whatever.

its kind of testimate to him prolly.

I vote for a new server down thread. Who's with me.

I feel bad for him because all he's really doing is bringing us together and giving us a reason to show our support. I really dont' see how starting a new thread is going to solve much. He'll just read that one if he's able to read this.


///Amended my post because yes, it was a bit of a jest at the persons behalf. And a bit short handed even for me.
I would however suggestion there's no fault in calling him an attacker.. because if I ask what's going on, the response from DM/Player alike is "Ddos attack" which implies an "attacker"

Necrotic Shadows wrote:The attacker is some kind of special. I feel bad for him because all he's really doing is bringing us together and giving us a reason to show our support. I really dont' see how starting a new thread is going to solve much. He'll just read that one if he's able to read this. But if he is reading this... I'd like to invite him to get out of his mother's basement, and put these "apparent" computer skills to use in the real world.

here's a list of some jobs, buddy, incase you couldn't search the web yourself:
https://www.indeed.com/q-Computer-jobs.html

it IS really sad if you think about it
think about what kind of life this person must have to be doing this. Putting time and effort into ruining perfect strangers' fun. Frankly, I'm sort of glad he's doing this, because the obvious next step is suicide, so at least he's got this left...

He will get whats coming to him soon enough. If what i hear is true and he is now crashing dozens of servers then that is a pretty major crime right there. Messing with one server may not attract that much attention but messing with a s*** ton of them potentially counts as cyber terrorism and that is not a minor infraction. He will be going away for a looooong time...

Akroma666 wrote:

Necrotic Shadows wrote:For those of us who'd like to donate to see our favorite world stay online.... any chance you'd be willing to tell us about what it costs to maintain a month? Or at lease an idea of how much would be a helpful donation? This.... it hasn't just been a place to rp for me. Baldur's Gate has given me an outlet for creativity and jumpstarted a lot of writing and poetry for myself and others I know. I'd like to give back.

Beep boop beep moderator redirecting to Server Treasury:
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beeeeeeeeeeeeep

Thanks for that exposure.

Yes, please start a new thread. But please have the Moderators cull all the crap in the posts talking about the "attacker" . Keep the entire thread on-topic, meaning about the SERVER being down.

Seriously, some of the replies folks are posting here have been ridiculous.

Sure, it's frustrating to endure this ....... but wishing death on someone...... WTH ???

I always thought the wonderful community here was above such juvenile antics.

Besides, think about it ....... imagine the huge smile he/she likely gets, reading here how much anger and frustration these attacks are creating. Why would you want to add to that grin ?

Ever heard the expression : " Don't feed the trolls." ?

Think about it before the next time you hit "Submit".

And I hope the staff considers some of this as well. It doesn't create the most flattering first impression to visit these forums and see such a gigantic thread full of vitriol.

A never-ending cycle, it seems. Why fuel it ?

/ end of rant

It would seem that the server is down again. 0753 CST.