Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

[NeoMasterPie]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

put up a page in plaintext that loads saying "if you're a legit player from latvia then email us at (email) to have your IP unblocked"

it's not blocking them from loading a page but at least it's a page that's only a few bytes instead of high-content flash/php/etc. pages that use considerable bandwidth

[FissionMailed1]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

Interesting idea. The only problem I see with that is that it is still an inconvenience to players from there. In terms of a quick-and-dirty solution, I think it would work well though. Unless, of course, the admins already have something in mind that they aren't sharing.

[Tarrik]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

Interesting idea. The only problem I see with that is that it is still an inconvenience to players from there. In terms of a quick-and-dirty solution, I think it would work well though. Unless, of course, the admins already have something in mind that they aren't sharing.

How many players do you think actually play from there? I hadn't even heard of the place until now honestly lol.

[gold stinger]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

Trying something is better than sitting here trying to think of the best and most logical solution whilst doing nothing. I say go ahead with a global post about Latvia players and getting an e-mail from them, and then shut the site off from Latvia players in 2 days and see if it does anything.

Worse case scenario the population changes from Latvia to something else like Switzerland, in that case you now know it's a DDoS.

[FissionMailed1]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

I understand where you guys are coming from, but think of it this way: even if there is just a few players from there, they may still feel as if they are being unfairly inconvenienced. If there is no other recourse, then what Detri said would be fine. My point is that of fairness to players of every region, no matter how many people are connecting from there.

[Arntonach]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

There's only 37 users currently that say they're in Latvia. Maybe make people select one before registering but have the default choices lead to a permaban. That's all I can think of.

[Crazyjayde]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

As a temporary solution, I think restricting Latvia's traffic is understandable. At least to figure the exact source of the slow downs.

[UserNameGoesHere]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

"Based on internet averages, flashflashrevolution.com is visited more frequently by females who are in the age range 45-54, have no college education and browse this site from school."

I laughed.

90% of these are Attractive alts

You're into those 45-54 year old women lacking college education huh?

[gabrieljd]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

Just teach the blocked Latvian players how to use proxies.

[t-rogdor]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

I think Rihanna's widget just went live.

ahhhahaha

Interesting idea. The only problem I see with that is that it is still an inconvenience to players from there.

yeah but dude
inconveniencing players from one place vs the whole site being fucked to shit

cmon

lesser of two evils here

[FissionMailed1]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

Fair enough. I was just trying to brainstorm other solutions to not have to resort to that.

Also, the site appears to be functioning normally again. Guess it's subsided for now.

EDIT: I suppose it isn't all the way back to normal, but it is much better.

[Izzy]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

Now it only takes 10 seconds to load a page.

[gold stinger]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

Dossar's have to sleep too
lol I made a bad joke

[Jerry DB]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

Hooray the site loads! Thank you mystery maintenance man

[A2P]

Re: Uhh ok.. dear Admins (pretty obvious thread)

Latvian girl is say, "I want go America one day." Father say, "I send you America." Daughter is thank father. Make tears of happy. Father use for salty potato. Father think moment, say, "Daughter, I no send you America."

Potato is more salt.