Modding of ANY sort, as Gene said, CAN AND WILL affect the stability of the servers.
I noticed on my server....Lately I have been getting hit by Modders....
THIS IS CRASHING MY SERVER. KNOCK IT OFF.
My server has no mods on it, nor will it EVER. Don't even try it.
I can tell when a modder logs on.
Server load skyrockets. When I see that...I will (and my assistant and remote Admins are to do the same) KICK the person that logged on last. If the lag goes away, then that person was most likely modding.
I have done lots of research on this fact, I even have one of my members testing various mods on a locked patched server. THe mods will either bog the server down, or crash it.
Modders....Whether you think your mods are minor, like Heritic....STAY THE HECK OFF
UNMODDED SERVERS !!!!
This goes for the Cloakers too. The server was not designed to calculate everything involved with cloaking!!!
-Arg
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