But it’d be boring if I could just tell you that, with no proof or anything like that. It’s not as large as mine, but shows well how Woet is coporating with people.

norek’s logs

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mabako

I’ve got some needed services to work again, just to name the webserver and mysql. There’s a mailserver set up, but no mailboxes. It doesn’t worry me as much, as at least 95% of my mails are spam which I won’t miss.

And although I’ve remained sceptical if there are people reading this post at all, I recovered most of this blog’s posts. But at all, there’s nothing much on the server lost that I’d miss. This blog is barely updated, so dare you to say it’s getting read a lot. All comments have been lost, but that’s nothing I would change - a lot of it was pure spam really. There’s only two changes that affected the blog: due to the new Wordpress which saves post revisions as single posts, all links being used earlier won’t work.

And the change you’ve most likely seen already, I’ve uploaded a new design which looks in my opinion a lot clearer than the “Regulus”-design I used to have. I didn’t like the old design that much anymore, it has been used since November 2006 in this blog and - if i remember correctly - on blog which existed before, since around January 2006. Time to make a change, isn’t it.

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mabako

GTANet-Woet*.log

P.S.: Fuck you Woet and all your spying. And despite your asking, I’ve really no intention to put down this page, neither any problem if you’d publish those logs on your own. Since it’s out of your scope of possibly taking them down, just don’t worry about it. We’ll never forget you, since we know who we shouldn’t like. And for all you’re saying, I honestly don’t care anymore.

If you haven’t noticed yet, I am not limited to do what YOU want, if you might remember the recent .eu “problem”. I can take the blame on what I’ve done - I have no problem with people blaming me for how wrong I’ve done certain things. And really, I’ve done most actions on a purpose and not just in a mindless state of being drunk or eating hamburgers.

Don’t try to tell me what I’ve been doing wrong, there is too much stuff you are not considering. For example that the Domain isn’t deleted, any whois would tell you that.

cheers especially to Oliver, Caligula, Martok, Jolteon, Mount, damo, G-StyleZzZ and poor littlewhitey
mabako

All Servers except

have been transferred to Woet, whatever he may do with them is his decision.

I will continue to host some stuff on request, game servers as I did before, but’ll sooner or later come up with another company more focussing on non-gta-games.

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mabako

I believed, at least one time, SA:MP was shut down for good. A lot of things happened, to just name Sacky’s bot plugin, Peter, the Netherlands-ban and the partly client’s source release. All reasons why Kye could close SA:MP, in a lot of cases he did and yet again - it’s back now. A typical rollercoaster guy, this Kye… and it goes up and down and up and down and… up.

Though, we’ll see what happens, I’ve agreed with a couple of people that the second source-code-leak shutdown is the ninth, and I always wanted to beat 10 - I didn’t expect it to happen in a few weeks really. Let’s see when we strike those 10. If the shutdowns occur as often as they did in May and June up to now, it won’t be long.

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mabako

So in the end, it doesn’t seem like some of the useful plugins are accepted. Everyone can obtain the sampmysql or irc-plugins, but to prevent bruteforcing of your server and in the end protecting your rcon access is NOT allowed? To me, that doesn’t seem correct. Even although I needed some disassembling to find the correct memory locations, it would be dare easy for everyone to just search in the string list for “Bad rcon attempt”…

Noone seemed to care the link is still available, I was banned without removing the link… might be useful to others? I believe so, why would they remove a useful link? It’s just I’ve made something a lot of server owners enjoy to see and what the SA:MP Team didn’t put in… but nevermind.
I wonder, is my license to host SA:MP servers revoked now? At all, I don’t own a server hosting company since some days, and I haven’t got any email regarding that.

Besides the point, yet another e-drama happened yesterday, when Kye came to GTANet just to get Peter away from SA:MP… But I might go in detail later, until now it doesn’t seem like kye wants to have a huge userbase playing it.

In conclusion, I’d strongly encourage you to use forum.sa-mp.co.uk, and if you experience a lot of rcon attacks, consider my rcon plugin - you need the filterscript from the complete package, and then a dll/so file for your architecture.

You might also want to read Peter’s (and some other people’s view). This has been deleted, thus granting LVP official status again.

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mabako

Prices change to the serverffs-prices, and the current customers will be taken over at least for the period they paid for without any extra charges. After their server expired, one may need to either cancel his account or rent it in future at 0.25 Euro per slot.

There’s a couple of reasons for it, an important one being the financial aspect, and I’m sometimes really tired of people around here… So, let’s hope everything will stay fine.

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mabako

I want to point out this does NOT include the official list, just the internet list - where most people’s servers are on. To keep a list of servers online, I’ve made some small changes, just visit forum.sa-mp.co.uk how you may get your server on my new internet list, and how you can see others there.

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mabako

After SA:MP’s services have been taken down and partly reopened (such as the forums, whereas I would really like you to use forum.sa-mp.co.uk for forums not restricted to support only), it seems the official list is back, at all.

Although not being on the front page, the page to buy your official rank is back. Let’s see if something unexpected happens now too.

Update 12th May, yet one again
Changing his mind again, people who paid for official server were refunded, though the new official servers were kept they were now.

In the meanwhile, grab some popcorn and read the gamerX forum a bit… And stay tuned what happens next!

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mabako

This is an interesting aspect which seems to have evolved of SA:MP now, or, to quote someone in particular not me, SA:MP goes weird - you can buy an official Server Rank.
Let’s have a look back at what happened.

In 2006, the SA:MP team released their multiplayer modification SA:MP 0.1 (and a month later, 0.1b) with an interesting feature called “Official Server list”. A couple of servers, chosen by the team, such as littlewhitey’s server, PartyServer, XII’s and Novocaine’s server were present at this time. The regular player count was pretty high, the servers might have lacked some decent admins actively watching for cheaters all the time.

The list of servers being official changed from time to time, at all giving an insight in a couple of modes which were played by more than 10 players at peak times (unless a lot of “Unnamed” or empty servers). In conclusion, I can say it was a bit balanced on what people wanted to play, and as a server has proven to handle lots of players with decent mode, they may have been added to the list - such as GamerX. LVP has been added because of Peter’s developer position, but nevermind, it is still a cool gamemode.

There hasn’t been much of a change until recently, almost the same servers, not much possibilities to get a new server there. SA:MP Team has decided to give the betatesters the right to decide over SA:MP’s new Official Servers, and there have been a couple of restrictions on it - Top 50 Game Rank on Game-Monitor.com, a dedicated admin team and not a lot of cheaters and hackers, at all.
A few servers made it into the official server list based on this new criteria, but it seems the effort was a waste, seriously.

As of yesterday, this has importantly changed. As you may have read on the forums, you can now buy official server rank, with a fairly high price of 40$ a month or 90$ for 3 months. Looking at the host comparison table I made up a while ago, found at sa-mp-hosts.com, it evidently shows you need to pay a lot more, especially with some servers with under 100 Players (being 20 € according to SA:MP Host’s current prices), it would sum up to something around 50 Euro for one month. Hardly cheap, in my opinion.

Speaking from my personal experience as of hosting some SA:MP servers, I would personally not buy a official server rank for my own (non-existant) server, I would rather buy another dedicated server and host some more servers on that, simply since it generates new money - whereas I am not sure an official server rank would get me a waste of new customers. Even if it would do, where shall I put them? On a non-existant server?

I’m not sure if it’s a step forward or not, some of the SA:MP team may support and like this new way for official server ranks, which surely donates towards their Servers, but I have to look on my own limited amount of money. Apart from getting special server builds, there’s nothing much interesting in the offer otherwise, and even this is not worth paying 40$, 30€ or such a month.

However, as I am hosting SA:MP servers, I have some kind of duty to offer them official server rank, we will see how much interest this idea will gain, especially regarding this price.

We’ll see what happens…

Update a week later, 27th of april.
At the time written, above was valid, but I’ve taken my time to get this post published to look at it after some days. Seems to be a good point proven for now.

Later that day (20th of april), SA:MP’s services have appearantly been DDoS’ed, which led Kye to the decision to close the official forums and the official master server list.

In result of that, we’ve started to - yet again - use Popz and Wacko’s fallback-forum in case anything like this would happen again. And here it is: forum.sa-mp.co.uk.

Now this is interesting: At the 25th, Kye decided to make a smaller version of the forums available, basically just for providing support for SA:MP and his new - whatever it may be - Grand Larcency… And no, a sub-forum exists but no information has been provided, at all. Gangs sections and screenshots/videos as well as server advertisement have been cut out, yet you can find them at our new unofficial forums at forum.sa-mp.co.uk.

On a side note, you may use my provided sa-mp loader to enable browsing official list too. You may obtain it from here.

Put it in your GTA folder (where samp.exe is), then you can either launch it before SA:MP and it will start automatically, or you can use it after you’ve started the browser and it’ll just put another address in.

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mabako

Let’s zoom it a bit

I’d say it clearly expresses “Kyeman is a dumbfuck!”, don’t you think?

Besides that, I’ve been working on the samp-host.net-Homepage for some days and - compared to the old one - really improved it.

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mabako

As some people on the forum have asked for my scripts I once put online at mabako.net/samp/, I feel like pointing this out: I have no intention of re-opening the download to a wide public, so please, for god’s sake, stop pm’ing me about something which I wouldn’t change. I would be lying if I’d say these files aren’t downloadable anymore, just I’m not hosting them at the location they were for long time.

As important as this fact, I would reasonably appreciate if people would not ask me for support with their SA:MP scripts. I’m pretty much done with SA:MP, they’ve moved to some weird other IRC network and I doubt I helped people out there even once - or even if I did - compared to GTANet a really small amount. I am still staying with GTANet, no reason for me to actually change to gamesurge.

And since Kye decided there should be some changes happening, look what we got - a reduced amount of developers, as Peter, Y_Less, aru left the dev-team, no SA:MP-Anticheat (more commonly known as SAC) - horray for all cheaters. I would not think they could be more happy now, a free unban for every SAC-caught cheater (except some that have, unfortunally, been unbanned even earlier). It’d be too ironic to say “Good Choice, Sir. Good Choice.” as the Ammunation-Guy always does, but it really fits here.

So in conclusion up to now, I’m mainly done with SA:MP.

Now to something different…
Some of you might remember the good ol’ Public Enemy No.1 for SA:MP, Denver/Astro’s release of PEN1 and all the new servers that might’ve come accross you - however, I couldn’t be more glad to introduce a completely new gamemode to you, on an almost new Game - Multi Theft Auto.
Featuring a lot of stuff from the original PEN1, there’s still some major changes - as it has all been coded by myself and ported to LUA. So right now, there might be some major features missing - there’s mainly CashBox&HotWire to do - but I’m still working on it. There’s also a lot of cool extensions to MTA’s regulary gameplay, such as jetpacks, ammu-nations, fast-food shops and Pay’N’Sprays (to get rid of your wanted level) - yet planned are vending machines (if I’d just find all the locations), tuning shops in general, and especially for PEN1: Legends, DM-Arenas with objects, new Houses and Businesses, probably some nice and cool locations such as the Malibu-Club known from Vice City, same as the Bank you had to rob in the last of Malibu’s missions - however it was called. Especially the Malibu has been something I have been missing in VCS, I still can’t believe they were lacking such a great place…

However, when looking at mtasa.org - you’ll notice some processes happening, which stuff is added and how well the development goes. The Server - mtasa.org:22004 - is open most time of the day, there might happen some crashes - but should not happen too often. In any case, it’s auto-restarting, so unless I want it to be taken down, it’s up.

I may also point out at the IRC-Channel, irc.gtanet.com #pen1-legends just as a place for discussions and ingame-echo.

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mabako

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mabako

I’m very sorry to say that, but unfortunally it seems like my Hard Drive is dying, and probably will die within the next two months - it has been crashy because of the hard drive for almost 5 months now, and I don’t think it’ll last much longer. The hard drive is just about 4 and a half years old and has been in use pretty often, as this pc is all the time on when I’m at home. I’ve tested RAM just now, what could’ve caused problems too - but yet no errors found… And it doubt it’ll be XP - since i reinstalled it after those crash happened, yet no difference

If you want to donate, feel free to give any amount of money using paypal to paypal@mabako.net.

So far, only hiker was encouraged to make a donation, a lot of thanks to him

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mabako

I’ve written an admin script, and there’s a couple of features you might be interested in:

Link to SA:MP Forum Topic
Link to Download

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mabako