Return of Reckoning

While I can't confirm - the fact that other MMO games are blocking these regions would give strong indication as to their threat.

Further, It looks like the RoR team is now using cloudflare for some additional ddos protection.

Check out step 6 on cloudflare's site:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us ... t-do-I-do-

BLock specific country IP's

As others have said - a ddos attack can now be performed for a cheap as $150 a week. To do this, one simply rents botnet clients of zombie computers to perform the ddos attack. Blocking specific country IP's where these zombie clients are MOST likely to originate can significantly reduce the opportunity for a successful attack.

From CloudFlare:

Step 6: Block specific countries and visitors
Time: 10 minutes, Difficulty: Medium

CloudFlare’s Threat Control lets you block IP addresses and set entire countries to be challenged. Once you add an IP or country, the security rule will take effect within 2 minutes offloading the traffic to your server. To decide which country or IPs to add to your Threat Control, you will want to check your log files or follow the steps below under Advanced tip. You can find the Threat Control panel next to the domain on the My Websites page.




Advanced tip: To get a list of visitors coming to your site from the last 48 hours by number of requests, follow these steps. You can use the information to identify IPs you may want to manually add to your CloudFlare Threat Control Block list.

I'm not a huge fan of captcha, and I think there are more convenient / less irritating methods, but why not use something like an Authenticator?

Usually its for account protection, and I understand this is a small run effort, but I believe Google even has something that can act as an Authenticator (I think it was with Wildstar I used it) for any program so long as its compatible. It would cut down on spam / DDOS, protect accounts, and be a minor inconvenience.

Screw that, lets execute the f*cker.

The crime of DDoSing WAR when it finally returns should be considered an act on the same level as mass genocide.

(Disclaimer: don't really do that. If you do actually find out who he is though, just kick him in the b@llsack until he doesn't have a b@llsack anymore. B@llsack obliterated + arrested I guess = should be enough to get the point across.)

Shadowgurke wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t90w2VHxJs

My gad this kid need to delete games and he need to be detained !

that part of the clip is one of the milder scenes. He goes on smashing his keyboard and making really wierd sounds

I hate DDOsers. They make me so mad

VladtheInhaler wrote:I hate DDOsers. They make me so mad

I agree. It is quite frustrating.

so , are thing back or no ?

Orcpacolypse, true it will end sometime, but this is not the first attack and by reason we can believe that another will be coming. I know it will be an inconvenience to some but I think it would be better for the long term to start blocking IPs.