[ADMIN] Find player ID # of someone while they are offline?

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As an ark server admin, is there any way to find the player ID # or steam ID # of someone's character while they are offline on our server?

We have a griefer that I would like to ban but neither me or my other admin can seem to see him online when we are on to ban them.

Any ideas out there from other ark admins?

[Lilkinsly]

IRT, yes, it bans by the steam 16 ID.

Do you have tye persons steam account name?

What I said before involved using ftp to look at the actual player profiles on the servers savedark files.

[S.jc9181]

if you know his steam name, grab the ID and place in your ban list, otherwise wait until they are online, use ur showmyadminmanager and do your best admin will... i'd warn the person first and then if still persists then ban him. its easy peasy from that cmd.

[Lord Pizzant]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Impending Rentacle Tape:

As an ark server admin, is there any way to find the player ID # or steam ID # of someone's character while they are offline on our server?

We have a griefer that I would like to ban but neither me or my other admin can seem to see him online when we are on to ban them.

Any ideas out there from other ark admins?

If you know his ingame "Character Name" and are running your server using the "Ark Server Manager" (if you don't I suggest you do :) ) you can just press the "RCON button" to the right of where the start button is. A window vill open and on the right you will have everyone's "Steam Name" "Char Name and lvl" and "Tribe Name" that have been on the server since first boot. You can rightclick to ban. But I suggest you talk to him first.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von UrbanNoodles:

I would suggest letting him stay.
Griefing, however unfun for the victim, is a fundamental part of every multiplayer game like this one.

You should try spending time on teaching the children on your server how to better defend against the evils of mmos.

Griefing is NOT a fundamental part of anything really, Griefing is nothing more than bad behavioural trait some people have. It does not benefit nor enhance the player experience, it's a nuisance. Griefing in many cases (but mostly on small servers) cause peaople whom are on there for enjoying the world that our devs have created for us to leave, decreasing the overall number of players. And of course this is not fun for the griefers eighter because now they have fewer victims. This cycle often continues until there are only griefers left and they will eventually leave as well, leaving the server empty and dead.

Raiding however is in my eyes totally OK. Sure it involves stealing, maybe destroying some wall/doors. This is easy to recover from and gives the victim a chane to strike back to win/fail creating a more lively game experience. And if you see raiding as destroying the other players entire existence on the server you my dear sir/mam are a griefer.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lord Guldfisk!:

If you know his ingame "Character Name" and are running your server using the "Ark Server Manager" (if you don't I suggest you do :) ) you can just press the "RCON button" to the right of where the start button is. A window vill open and on the right you will have everyone's "Steam Name" "Char Name and lvl" and "Tribe Name" that have been on the server since fist boot. You can rightclick to ban. But I suggest you talk to him first.

Thank you, the one helpful post in the entire thread that is exactly what I was looking for. I found the RCON button and I'll look into it tomorrow. Sleep now.

[DeadlyPaperCut]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Impending Rentacle Tape:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Brulis Qc:

Why would you want to destroy all the work of someone because of this?
Your an admin, your suposed to be prepared to face those kind of player.

And why is he griefing? maybe he got a good reason, something you probably can't do to help him, otherwise, I don't see why your not helping him other then trying to ban him and make him lose everything.

Level 1 player showing up stealing gas from people's generators and building walls in front of someone's gates so they can't get out of their own base. And throwing down 100 foundations along a beach.... sigh

I shouldn't have to explain all of this. I asked a simple question and was hoping for a straightforward answer.

All you people in this thread is part of what's wrong with this community.. unhelpful :(

Then I agree with you, This guys deserve a ban.

I also understand you wanted a straight answer, but before people give you a way to ban someone, they will probably prefer knowing why.
We all know how much work it is to build a base and we all know how much anoying it is to get robbed in PVE or seeing someone building close to a base.

Hope you ban him real soon.

[Lord Pizzant]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Impending Rentacle Tape:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lord Guldfisk!:

If you know his ingame "Character Name" and are running your server using the "Ark Server Manager" (if you don't I suggest you do :) ) you can just press the "RCON button" to the right of where the start button is. A window vill open and on the right you will have everyone's "Steam Name" "Char Name and lvl" and "Tribe Name" that have been on the server since fist boot. You can rightclick to ban. But I suggest you talk to him first.

Thank you, the one helpful post in the entire thread that is exactly what I was looking for. I found the RCON button and I'll look into it tomorrow. Sleep now.

Oh.. I forgot you can also rightclick and copy "Steam ID" (the string of numbers) to clipboard and use that.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lord Guldfisk!:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Impending Rentacle Tape:

Thank you, the one helpful post in the entire thread that is exactly what I was looking for. I found the RCON button and I'll look into it tomorrow. Sleep now.

Oh.. I forgot you can also rightclick and copy "Steam ID" (the string of numbers) to clipboard and use that.

And yes copying the ID # would be useful, if they were online.... :(

For some reason in my server configuration, the RCON button in the server manager is greyed out. I woke up this morning and there was no one on so I brought the server down for a moment thinking it needed to be offline, but no.. RCON is still greyed out.

And they used a space in their steam name, twice, so https://steamid.io/lookup won't work either.

And no I won't post who it is in here in a public thread.

This isn't totally about "this one person", this is also sort of a learning exercise to learn how to place bans for people not currently online on administering an ARK server. So it may be "this one guy this one time" right now, but I would like to figure this out for the future for anyone else.

[Daywalker]

Check your savegamefolder ther are profiles for each char/tribe etc there you can get the id

[Lilkinsly]

How many people are on your server? Did you try what I said?

You can also take the steam id's from the profile files and put them in that steam id lookup.

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Alrighty I've come up with a solution. Kind of a messy way to do it but, it works. I'll outline it here for other ark admins to know for the future.

I went and downloaded a copy of GNU Grep for Win32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm

I then copied the entire "SavedArks" folder out to another location on my windows server, then I dropped the exe's and the library dll's for win32 grep in to the 'moved-to-new-location' SavedArks folder, and then made a batch file for searching:

grep <character-name> *
pause

Saved it as name-searching.bat and ran it.

And it dug through the files and came up with a <string-of-numbers>.arkprofile, which I checked with windows wordpad and looked inside and verified it indeed matched the character name I was searching for.

This also gave me the <number-string>.arktribe as well showing me his tribe, and I got to look inside of it with WordPad and see the other two tribe members with him. Then modified the batch file with my grep search to find them too.

With the 3 profiles copied down, I reverse-searched them with https://steamid.io/lookup and figured out their steam ID just to verify it is indeed what I was looking for, for more 'mental proof' for me.

Then went and just hit F2 in windows explorer to rename the *.arkprofile files to copy the steam ID #'s then went in-game and pasted in to the ShowMyAdmin panel and did a manual ban and it's in place.

And I'm not entirely sure, but -I think-, by 'moving' their tribe and profile files out of the "production" SavedArks folder as if they were deleted, the server may auto-magically delete all his characters and structures the next time we do a server restart for a patch upgrade, maybe.

We'll see on that other part. But anyway, thanks people. I've figured it out and now know what to do for the future.

[Mike Rubik]

tip: try putting %20 where the spaces are.

[ihateshaman]

Quoted from oXYnary on another thread, the search function is so nice, you girls should try it, or google.

"Go to the ark save directory in your server, you will see the steamIDs of all players. Look at the last time they were time stamped modified and created. Which I assume wont change unless someone has killed them already.

Then use.
http://steamidfinder.com/
To match against players known to be ok in game around same time. Those you dont recognize are most likely suspect.

Also did you allow transfers? If so, thats not hacking."

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von ihateshaman:

Quoted from oXYnary on another thread, the search function is so nice, you girls should try it, or google.

"Go to the ark save directory in your server, you will see the steamIDs of all players. Look at the last time they were time stamped modified and created. Which I assume wont change unless someone has killed them already.

Then use.
http://steamidfinder.com/
To match against players known to be ok in game around same time. Those you dont recognize are most likely suspect.

Also did you allow transfers? If so, thats not hacking."

Nope, transfers disabled on our server, I knew about -that- ahead of time.

[Lilkinsly]

Glad you found it. You did it the smarter way then I did. lol initially I just looked in my profile until I saw my character name, then went and looked in the same spots on the other profiles.

Yes deleting them will delete the character, but I don't think the structures will go away.

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