Master server policy

by eihrul on 06/19/2010 08:02, 80 messages, last message: 08/04/2016 12:42, 47888 views, last view: 12/09/2021 02:42

Since the issue has come up in a few instances lately, multiple servers violating master server rules and getting banned, and some people seem to be taking it as if they are being unfairly singled out, I thought it is probably time for a refresher.

If you want to keep your server registered on the master server, you have to abide by a few rules. Otherwise, your server is temporarily banned until you fix the issues.

The rules:
1. The master/auth system can't be messed with. All things someone can do with auth can normally do must function, regardless of whatever server mods you have in place.
2. The gameplay needs to remain unmodified. The Sauerbraten master server is for the Sauerbraten game only, not other games.

These are not rules we made up just recently to pick on people. These policies have been in place since before Sauerbraten even existed, within Cube.

I am eminently fair about enforcement - if you fix the issues, your server gets back in. And for that matter, I am very lenient about what sort of server mods are allowed, but those few rules above need to be respected.

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#77: Re: ..

by suicizer03 on 10/21/2014 04:11, refers to #76

Perhaps if you just tell which servers do that it's more convincing.

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#78: ..

by asmanel on 10/22/2014 13:41

suicizer, the problem is the cheaters, not the servers.

I hope we aren't face to this paradox : cheats that cause gameplay change if they are allow and can't be prevented without gameplay change.

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#79: Modded gameplay servers exist

by Blur on 04/30/2015 22:46

So I read over the policy statement, particularly the second point. That one seems a little weird to me simply because from my experience with sauer it goes so unenforced that before I read this thread, I didn't think rule#2 existed. Now I'm not gonna name any server names or addresses but anyone who's been playing sauer a while knows that there are servers hosting all sorts of different types of gameplay. I've seen races, mazes, zombies, mafia, stopmotion animating using teles, even a pornography server with... uh, some imported textures.
I don't particularly mind the mods, and frankly I think eihrul has more than enough sense to know which servers to ban; I trust his judgment completely. I just wanna know if there is something official I'm missing that allows these servers to remain on the master server, or if they just stay cus a lot of people like them and they aren't hurting anyone.(except the above mentioned porn server, pretty sure bling's Magic palace got taken down a while ago :P)

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#81: hi

by bengu1 on 08/04/2016 12:41

hi all,i want to host a server how to do that i want to payd pls help

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#82: hi

by bengu1 on 08/04/2016 12:42

how can i contact eirhul????

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