So. How do YOU beat hackers?

[Wolfguarde]

This is a general discussion thread for strategies to take and hold a server afflicted with cheaters, DDOSers, exploiters, or the like. Note that I AM NOT referring to legitimate, albeit likely incredibly aggressive, alpha tribes dominating their servers - just those that cheat to gain or maintain an edge.

I would like to open a discussion (without naming tribes - that will get the thread deleted) on how cheating tribes have been defeated on servers where a legitimate alpha tribe has overcome an illegitimate one to take the top spot, or theories on how best to do it. Ark's community seems particularly rife with cheaters - particularly with the release of scorched earth - and both support and the devs themselves seem unwilling to actually do anything about the problem (pending ticket on a DDOS issue has gone for three days without being answered, after two days up on the forums). How are people clearing out the maggots on their servers? What works? What doesn't? Let's hear it.

[Tanchyon]

There's no way to beat a tribe that is DDOSing you all the time. This is becoming a big problem on ark.

[Laziegoblin]

Every answer comes down to this: Take the problem out of Wildcards hands and put it in capable hands. Play unofficial.

[sal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

I wondering on the technical aspect of this. To DDOS you personally they need to get your IP.
Is this possible? That would be a huge security hole for several reasons.

[=🆆ΛУ🆆⋊г∂=]

Well, if we're talking about aim bots you merely need to wipe their base once they're offline. I assume the local pop will help you out, too, dealing with cheaters (add them in steam, stay quiet in global. Make account privat and change name often enough so that they can't see recent aliases)..

Key to win in ark is and will always be players with no life at all which can farm all day and wipe at night..

[Wolfguarde]

Originally posted by Laziegoblin:

Every answer comes down to this: Take the problem out of Wildcards hands and put it in capable hands. Play unofficial.

We are seriously considering this.

To clarify: The DDOS problem in our instance isn't IP targeted. It's the cheaters in question smashing the serverside machine down repeatedly to dupe wyvern milk/eggs/explosives. They're doing this on secondary accounts they run with the dual purpose of duping and clogging up server slots (70/70 all day, every day)

[bleach821]

I have stop playing on official server is just a waste of my time I lose all time and efforts too cheters and hackers and don't play on the server where is the admin a player too because hi is cheating too thx to cods in game.is spawning him self all

[Tanchyon]

Originally posted by bleach821:

I have stop playing on official server is just a waste of my time I lose all time and efforts too cheters and hackers and don't play on the server where is the admin a player too because hi is cheating too thx to cods in game.is spawning him self all

Yeah either you take a risk with official... or you take a risk with cheating admins and disappearing servers. Pretty much the only sure fire solution is host your own server.

[Irkalla]

Originally posted by #Sw!zZ.Pii:

Pretty sure that is intended, it's nice extra cash after all. Unplayable officials with ridiculous gather/taming times and unofficial servers with cheat codes enabled to force people to host their own servers = profit :)

Since WC doesn't host the servers we rent I'm not sure how you think they are profiting.

[shayne.oneill]

Originally posted by sal:

I wondering on the technical aspect of this. To DDOS you personally they need to get your IP.
Is this possible? That would be a huge security hole for several reasons.

I would say no, unless someones running a hacked client and theres stuff in the broadcast packets that shouldnt be there. However its rudimentary to find the servers IP, and sadly thats probably whats getting attacked.

[spires33]

One time i was attacked by hackers while i was offline, they killed my giga, raptor, a sabertooth and an arthropleura. And my only dinosaur that could hurt them were centipedes. none of the other tribes on the server had centipedes meaning that i was the only tribe left on the server. so i suggest lots and lots of centipedes. on other hacks i really do not know.

[Kae]

If you have any evidence of unfair gameplay such as hacking, using exploits or inappropriate language you can submit a ticket at https://support.survivetheark.com

Steam does not allow discussion of cheating or hacking on their boards and the support team are happy to help on the link provided.