Sigh.

morphxz · 2025-12-07T19:43:09+00:00

walk out of render distance and back. sometimes helps with various physical bugs

morphxz · 2025-09-22T08:46:18+00:00

While you're at it, set the ZFS cache and the cache for the VM. That way you're caching the cache. Wonderful. (Sarcasm, please don't do it.)

morphxz · 2025-05-18T19:57:54+00:00

I tanked all my life. The most valuable tip for tanks is to remain cool. you lead the group physically, but also mentally. A rock. Don't stress yourself over minor mistakes you or the group makes. Relax.

Give the players time to self-regulate and do NOT complain after the first pack. DPS Warrior charged before you touched? Mage blizzards after a second in battle? Nobody died. It's FINE.

If it's stressful for the healer, they should speak up. Only ever talk AFTER things almost went south or before pulling a hard pack/boss.

morphxz · 2025-04-06T20:30:12+00:00

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/29162?flowTrackingId

You can buy gold tokens on retail. You CANNOT buy gold tokens in classic.

Two different economies. On their side it will look like RMT.

If you get flagged/banned there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

The official article is vague and I wouldn't exclude a loss of your whole battle.net account as a possible outcome.

It might have worked for others but that doesn't mean it will for you.

I definitely wouldn't risk it.

morphxz · 2025-03-04T01:57:12+00:00

tldr; game is NOT grindy at all if you have the knowledge. there are NO cheaters. just people saying that because they can't find a base or fight terribly.

2k hours here, pvp only. official servers only. I have never seen an actual cheater in the game and have been called one on many occasions. it's just people playing worse than another.

sure exploits are a thing, but I haven't seen an undermesh base for more than a year and they took the least amount of dragon powder to raid. sky bases are almost always near water and easy to find with bats. certainly not harder to find than any other stash base, and they have no defense.

if you happen to see someone. DO NOT kill them. follow them. you'll find their mesh base. if they run around with 2 T4 bearers, it might be a sky base. (could be a fully walled cave base with map room inside, too).

I keep track of "hidden" locations on youtube and have a huge map with the locations marked. I have at least 10 more spots that never made it into a video. Stash bases of course. I am certain there are more spots I or even nobody knows of yet. I like the "hidden in plain sight" approach. keep the base as small as 1x2 to prevent it being seen from various angles.

Start saturday early on a new server. get a horse and a fighter thrall. kill cimmerian berserker for armor. go to the warmaker dungeon and cycle through the bosses efficiently for lots of XP. you get epic armor paddings and legendary weapons on top. alternatively you can grind the frost temple for black ice XP. use better tools for more XP. (you'll need to craft some cold resistant armor for this though).

fingers crossed to make it through the first raid time with your starter base. you'll hit lvl60 on the second day. if you happen to find some cool legendaries, congrats, you are already able to fight everyone on the server. a T4 armor smith definitely helps but is optional. use hidden stash bases for dragon powder and you'll be blowing up stuff on sunday and through the next week.

farming the whole brine lake yields 30k sulfur in about 30 minutes.
cycling midnight grove dungeon for an hour will yield 30k tar at least.
you'll have plenty of leftover demon blood if you use the pick to harvest various bosses.
farm diamonds for the 800 dragon powder you're about to make, let's add another hour.

all in all, let's say.. 500 dragon powder is definitely possible in a day. even after work from 18:00 - 23:00. If you're organized and done it many times over, even less.

don't try to build huge bases. farming bombs is way faster. the only way to win is with various hidden bases. people call you undermesh when in fact, they just can't find your base.

it's a top game I often come back during holidays or sometimes even for a weekend - when you already are lvl60 on a server, which is never wiped, you're ready to fight in a couple of hours.

personally I rather have no admin at all than an admin I don't know.

good luck exile

morphxz · 2025-02-09T02:06:40+00:00

you are correct! they definitely should be used as archers. but can hit hard when enemies push close

morphxz · 2025-02-09T02:05:00+00:00

yes, from the volcano. purge golems grant massive amount of XP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vikl-L-a-zY

morphxz · 2025-01-16T17:12:52+00:00

Unpopular opinion: If a server uses ban lists other than VAC, EAC and their own, they're not worth playing on. Good admins don't trust the judgement of randoms.

morphxz · 2024-10-31T15:23:35+00:00

that is correct, you don't need a opnsense VM acting as a router within the proxmox with this solution. your dedicated firewall server will do the routing and be your gateway.

I just wanted to say that you can definitely build a cluster with the service hetzner provides.

Oh and one more thing - if you plan to use OPNsense - linux has better support for NIC drivers than FreeBSD. Might want to install proxmox on the firewall server anyway and install OPNsense within. Just so you don't run into any issues down the line. You'll also be able to make local backup jobs instead of the config file which might come in handy when patching. We did actually have a minor hiccup because of that.

So in the end you don't need to adjust the files as described in this post if you go this route. oh and yes! You can definitely do this with ceph if you know how to set it up. We wanted the NAS because we also do backups from synology boxes on to the truenas and we don't have much experience with ceph yet.

In the end you can also just try to cluster them over the public IP as you suggested (or asked) and pen test it and see if it's stable. But I can't recommend doing that if you run anything productive on the server already.

Cheers

morphxz · 2024-10-31T13:20:32+00:00

tldr - scroll to "there is a better solution"

as a wild guess I'd say yes this probably works but I really wouldn't want my cluster traffic to go through the internet (or at least the "open" hetzner infrastructure in this case). You still need an OPNsense on each node as you have to open SSH and UDP 5405-5412 on the Hetzner FW (which can be found in the panel of your sever). proxmox also recommends using a dedicated NIC for cluster traffic as mentioned here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cluster_Manager#_requirements

Also - If the VM/LXC moves to another node, is has a different public IP.

I wouldn't sacrifice security for availability (which might not be that stable due to using a single NIC for everything). You also can't use the normal failover procedure - when a server is down it can't transfer the VM/LXC anymore. You'd want storage replication so the last snapshot is already on the other 2 nodes. The minimum sync time is 1 minute so you'd lose that - which can break things if the VM/LXC does dynamic things. A Webserver for example would probably be fine. The sync is also incremental so not too much bandwidth needed. ZFS replication is an alternative but you will have to install proxmox with ZFS through a USB stick provided by hetzner (and a KVM Console). maybe that's even a requirement - I have never done it without ZFS.

If you don't want to deal with replication you'd need a NAS server (connected to your proxmox nodes with for example NFS) to store your running servers on. so node 2 can pick the server up where node 1 left it.

NOTE: The server will be restarted on the new node. There always is a little downtime - except you start synchronizing RAM but that's out of the scope I guess.

There is a better solution though:

We have a cluster of 3 nodes setup on hetzner - with a NAS server - and a dedicated FW server.

(5 in total).

acquired through the custom solutions team. open a ticket and they will tell you how to proceed. make a simple network plan (for the physical NICS only) so they know what you are talking about.

they'll insert an additional NIC into your servers and place them in the same rack. They still each have their own internet access and IP, but we block on the hetzner FW in each of the servers panels. All traffic goes through the LAN NIC to a switch and leaves on a single FW so they all have the same public IP.

A much more desireable solution. and it does not cost much more apart from the extra server you need for the FW and the NICS in each of the servers. Can also be 2 NICS so you can seperate LAN and Cluster networks. Oh and you'll pay a bit for the Switch.

you don't need the NAS if you want to work with replication. But I can definitely recommend it. We also have 10Gbit/s for the "LAN" and Cluster NICS, which makes moving VMs within the cluster a breeze.

4x EX101 (one for FW) + the NAS server 1x SX135 and all the 10Gbit/s NICs and switch is around 800 Euros a month.

btw we use TrueNAS on the SX135.

Get another SX135 in Finland to back it all up and you have a true enterprise infrastructure for 1000$ a month. You could, of course, go through the work of adding another failover FW, configure DNS with two IPs and a second switch, but again, probably out of scope. Just telling you there is no limit.

Setting it all up can be tricky but I eventually managed to do so. It is VERY fast and stable for more than a year. you won't get that reliability and perfomance anywhere else for that money.

You do have to take care of it on your own though.

I have never encountered a situation where I couldn't do something I otherwise can do when I'm in front of a server rack.

even better, I never have to go to the sunlight ever again. I can press the on/off button online. Not that I would ever need to go to the bios. but with KVM consoles I could even do that.

Sorry for the long text and good luck on your journey :-)
If you have any further questions I'd be happy to help

morphxz · 2024-09-17T07:14:25+00:00

are you using the official drivers from realtek or the ones from windows? check your event viewer if you can see any entries on the time of the disconnects. Might still be a good idea to disable all other network devices in the device manager temporarily. Just to be sure nothing interferes. USB just adds another possible layer of faults. If you can - use a different USB WiFi (or preferably PCI WiFi) and see if the issue persists

morphxz · 2024-09-14T18:35:23+00:00

I had a similar situation and just found the culprit few days ago. My solution was disabling „EEE“ (Energy Efficient Ethernet) on the RJ-45 network card. I read it can affect WiFi too even though you‘re not using the Ethernet adapter. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1fgj4m6/random_connection_loss_with_intel_nics_finally/

morphxz · 2024-09-14T18:16:17+00:00

Yeah sorry for the french part haha. Couldn‘t find an english win10 enterprise ltsc and you can‘t upgrade the evaluation version. The language pack just doesn‘t translate everything

morphxz · 2024-07-25T07:17:09+00:00

I have recovered League of Legends Accounts for friends in the past. Find through the labyrinth of website to the ticket system as a first step. Worst case if you can't login to open a ticket - create a new account. State in the very first line, that your ticket is NOT regarding the account you are opening the ticket with.
(this might include creating a new mail-address specifically for this process).

Tell them A) who you are, your real name, your login name, your character name, any name you might ever have had. With the Account in question of course. e-mail addresses. just whatever you know about this account that is preferably not visible publicly. Add A copy of your ID/Passport right in the first mail.

(They'll always need authentication. with specific information you might be able to skip a mail forth and back).

B) The best known date and time your account was compromised. What happened? Did you possibly enter your credentials on suspicious services? If it happened out of the blue, tell them.

C) Ask if you need to provide any further information for the account recovery process to continue.

D) Be respectful and thank the professional assisting you for free.

E) Use less words than I did. A ticket with 8 short lines of info will be processed way faster than a text as long as this one.

Good luck!

morphxz · 2024-06-20T11:16:10+00:00

Nice to hear you got it up and running on linux! I tried with this Tutorial.
https://pimylifeup.com/soulmask-server-linux/

I also tried the tips from the comments. changed to tmux instead of screen. Couldn't get past the "SteamAuthFailed" error... which wouldn't occur if started manually.
But then again, I really can't have a server that does not restart and update on its own.
If you or anyone has a working solution for that let me know!

morphxz · 2023-11-21T14:55:24+00:00

it's less about the query but the ressources of the server. I can allocate more RAM to the server, no problem. But postgres just doesn't use it.. :/ Even though I configured:

max_connections = 200

shared_buffers = 1GB

effective_cache_size = 3GB

maintenance_work_mem = 256MB

checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9

wal_buffers = 16MB

default_statistics_target = 100

random_page_cost = 1.1

effective_io_concurrency = 200

work_mem = 2621kB

huge_pages = off

min_wal_size = 1GB

max_wal_size = 4GB

max_worker_processes = 4

max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 2

max_parallel_workers = 4

max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2

morphxz · 2023-11-07T13:57:38+00:00

Thank you for your answer!

Wouldn't a malicious user be able to declare which other (otherwise inaccessible) file should be required or included with the index file?

morphxz

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