Authentication Implementation

[Darkmoon]

Greetings ROR Crew,

First off, you guys are amazing for what you are doing. Thank you from the bottom of my bleeding heart!

Obviously, the attacks and server downtime are killing our community and players that log in. When people get attached to a game, like this one, it is all they can think about. It is all they want to do. The attacks are severely damaging the player base and its activity. Eventually, people will stop trying. NA is nearly non existent for RVR in prime evening hours for the past few weeks for ALL tiers.

How can you combat this? There must be a solution?

How hard is it for you to implement a second layer of authentication to the server? I assume difficult as it has not been done yet..

If your player base funds the cost of this, how would that be conflicting with Mythic and taking money for this game? It would be taking money for the servers which run it. Myself and I am sure 90% of this community would back it fully and within one day regardless of the cost, you would have the funds needed.

Is there anything that can be done? Or do we face issues like this with no end in sight? It will ruin what you have going and no one wants that.

We will support whatever needs to be done and I find it hard to believe there would be an issue with us funding the defense of this server.

I hope we can rise above this and make ROR what you aim for it to be.

Mad Respect,

Darkmoon

[Zintair]

I have certain fallen into this category of newly regained obsession haha. My humble opinion is that anything that can help on our part to combat this I would personally take steps to do. I know very little about DDOS other than how devastating it can be and how difficult it can be to track. I do wish the team the best of luck and as I said I would be willing to do what is required (a 2nd authentication etc) to help in your crusade against this threat.

[Bowldancer]

Many of us would love to donate but that would just risk everything we have - the position of the devs is clear.

I don´t even dare making petitions and appeals.

Frustrating - i know.
What would i give for a world where War is running stable all day every day.

[Roboyed]

I'm up for this idea! Really hate when the server is down when I really crave the game.

[Ginto]

And >funds again. They(Devs) never accept this. Too risky.

[Roboyed]

Is there anyway the fans could help that doesn't put the server at risk? Obviously we don't want donations as it will possible (most likely) jeopardize the server, and the devs said they don't wanna risk it. But if this does continue then people will begin to leave/lose interest.

[Wittygamertag]

I would also put my hand up to say I would have no problem being part of that funding.

It seems more obvious that this is not going to simply go away until the goal of whoever is responsible is achieved. What that goal is would be pure speculation but its fairly clear its not just to simply get a kick from being able to disrupt the server and have a grin saying "look what I have done". That novelty wear off rather quickly and generally people would get bored of this and move on.

An interesting point is that those individuals that have been prosecuted for such attacked and subsequently questioned have ALL ( and there are a large number) admitted to reading the forums of the service they are interrupting and enjoying the attention it brings. So lets not fuel that desire.

So back to the start I would definitely help with a legal solution. On the other hand I enjoy this game as much as the next player but I play it during Dad time. That magical time where the kids are asleep and I have those precious 3 hours between 8pm and 11pm where none of my sons are trying to put me in a headlock or show me the latest choke hold they learnt from a friend at school that day. I can however still enjoy that time (my time) doing other things. So it does not affect me greatly as I sit on the couch watching TV blissfully along while occasionally checking to see if the server is online.

[Kabaal]

I think the only contribution that the devs would accept would be expertise.

[potz]

... and patience.

[Shlug]

The only thing I find quite concerning is the assumtion that these attacks are supposed to stop. They won’t stop. With server growing there will be more and more of them. Unless there’s some ddos protection in place, server will keep being down more often then not. People will eventually start leaving and that’s something I would not want to see :/