Server Help This is likely why Multiplay.co.uk servers seem to always have problems.

I'd like to know as soon as possible when MPUK gets this piece of junk off our servers. I run 2 of their servers, and I get constant restarts with only 5-7 players (my max slots is 18) and there are cheat exploits due to the wrapper i cannot mention publicly or people in my server would take advantage of it. I sent a support ticket to MPUK, and they escalated it to high priority tech support, just for me to get this response:

Can't be replaced is vague. Does that mean they will never replace the wrapper?

Edit: My server has been having problems keeping more than 7 people on before automatic restarts. Could it be possible that this wrapper could be the culprit?


Update: I've exchanged 2 more emails and got these replies:

I sure hope this gets fixed sometime soon, Chucklefish developers, as much as I hate to say it, the ball is in your court.

 

poor poor rat they wont let you eat any chedder

 

I need to correct myself now that I deduced the information. There are no wrappers installed. the wrapper I underlined is not even being used by the server. It is just sitting there. That said we need StarryPy support!

 

Starrybound does work correctly, if tweaked with the new version tweak that wasn't merged as it's not being maintained anymore.

StarryPy do have potential, the big thing is that works awfully on Windows, so Linux Only there, and it's not yet under any stable official release as they are still re-writing everything to 2.0. There is other wrappers? Yes, but not Open Sourced, what is a clear No from multiplay to ever support them.

I will actually tell you, at this moment, every server (Using wrappers or not) do have problems, specially linux ones, depending of many factors, some more stable, other's not.

Multiplay hands are tied because the deep hatred of @Tiy @bartwe @OmnipotentEntity and the other devs against server wrappers modders (EXE FILES? BURN! BURN!), that's why they are not even hosted on the mods site, it's lucky they are not even deleting the threads. Wrappers are most needed right now as the server software is very alpha at this moment and the linux version of the software is not getting the fixes windows got.

 

Ah good point. I 'll do what I can for now. My main concern is i see servers with plenty of people online and Multiplay servers cant even keep 7 without an auto-restart.

 

Hello everyone! I'm Multiplay's community manager.

I've done some back and forths with our sysops to investigate this. Our logs show that the file was uploaded by the username: adeelies - The owner of this server. I presume that's your co-admin Ratix.

If this surprises you or has come as a shock you should speak to him about it! What I can promise you however is that no matter what happens .exe files simply will not run in a freeBSD environment, so you have nothing to worry about. My best guess is that he was trying to get it to work for something, or just playing around with things.

Hope that clears everything up!

 

I think this is the wrong forum for this issue.

 

Thanks for the info sorry i jumped to conclusions.
The server has been having a lot of tough times lately, due to constant restarts. Now world crashes. My community's players want me to do things that I have no control over. Sorry to bring you over here.

 

Actually, my server runs 50+ mods, with little to no crashing. Much more stable after patch. You actually can control a lot of stuff, but requires time investment and techincal expertise in some cases.

 

The server in question is vanilla although I also host a 2nd server for mods. havent tested it. But I use no wrappers and Multiplay does not support server wrappers, at least not yet.

 

I also run no wrappers. Just some custom batch files. No wrapper has been just fine.

 

i dont have any idea what Multiplay is running that gives a /admin god mode accessible to all players. That boggles my mind since I've run starbound_server.exe straight from my computer with no wrapper and cannot use it. They added something in there, i just dont have the clearance to see what it is.

 

Anyone can do that I send the server custom crafted packets. They sound like they are using some sort of proxy.

 

No worries! You didn't bring me over specifically, it's my job to be everywhere at once. Watching.

 

Thanks for the helpful insight everyone.