Ambrosia AUA - Ask Us Anything #5

[Rawrplus]

Hey there guys. as it's come to tradition, we're hosting yet another Ask Us Anything topic - the place for you to ask anyone from the staff team anything you want.
Personal, non-personal, server-related, funny, offtopic, pleads and whatever comes to your mind - now you have the chance. We'll try to answer anything (as long as it's civil and possible to answer).

You can ask in general or target a question to anyone particular. Choice is yours.

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[black star]

Will u make a csgo surf server with !rank !exp !knife etc ( with bhop )

[CoiNNN]

Where do you see Ambrosia in a year or 2 years time?

[header]

Will u make a csgo surf server with !rank !exp !knife etc ( with bhop )

@Rubix Is currently working on this, I don't know his ideas about bhop but we've ran into a few small issues that should be fixed before we can release

[Kasabiii]

any plans for Minecraft ?

[header]

any plans for Minecraft ?

There are no plans from our side to do this.
But people set up private ones all the time so you could ask to join.

[Pim]

Will u make a csgo surf server with !rank !exp !knife etc ( with bhop )

Most likely yes

Autobhop might be something to talk about. But at least i've some decent ideas in mind

[Rawrplus]

Where do you see Ambrosia in a year or 2 years time?

Obviously I'd like to say as a successful and well functioning business model - as somebody in charge, but there's difference between dreaming and making it truth.
Personally I like to have my hopes high. I think for the last 2 years we've settled for mediocrity, for too long. And that's why I I've set my bar high - like all the projects you're seeing is a buildup. I really hope to transform Ambrosia into something bigger and better, I've grown tired of only being - that gaming community that used to be nr.1 in UK in 1.6, that's become a model for more 1.6 communities. Like yeah, that rings nicely to the ear, but I want more than that. That's a title of the past and if we don't keep evolving all the glory fades away eventually.

So yeah, I have my hopes high and there are already changes in the making. I think Ambrosia could actually be in a very fine spot in 2 years if everything goes according to plans, of course hypothetically speaking. Right now we have to stay humble and work our hardest to make it bigger and better. I think we're on a good way, just need to make sure it doesn't get derailed.

[Rawrplus]

any plans for Minecraft ?

There are no plans from our side to do this.
But people set up private ones all the time so you could ask to join.

To follow up on this question, we have launched AmbrosiaCraft many times and usually it ended up in it closing - not due to activity, but mainly to management conflicts and conflict of interest. Albeit, to give it benefit of the doubt, it was hosted everytime by somebody 3rd party  and not directly as property of Ambrosia Community. I'm not denying a possibility of a future MineCraft servers, but it's definitely not on top of our priority list.

[D00M]

How is ambrosia's finacial situation and how will it be in future where there will be more resource eating CS:GO servers?

[Rawrplus]

How is ambrosia's finacial situation and how will it be in future where there will be more resource eating CS:GO servers?

The same. We do not pay for individual servers, but for the dedibox as in whole.

Although we might do some performance upgrade if the community gets to grow and we'd need better hardware to run a larger amount of servers, so that could be a dent if deemed necessary.

[D00M]

How is ambrosia's finacial situation and how will it be in future where there will be more resource eating CS:GO servers?

The same. We do not pay for individual servers, but for the dedibox as in whole.

Although we might do some performance upgrade if the community gets to grow and we'd need better hardware to run a larger amount of servers, so that could be a dent if deemed necessary.

What if then just A dedibox won't be enough? As cs 1.6 eats cpu a decent amount when alot of players are on the server, but then adding csgo server to that, it will probably cause lags and lagspikes alot. Are you guys willing to expand to more than 1 dedibox?

[Rawrplus]

How is ambrosia's finacial situation and how will it be in future where there will be more resource eating CS:GO servers?

The same. We do not pay for individual servers, but for the dedibox as in whole.

Although we might do some performance upgrade if the community gets to grow and we'd need better hardware to run a larger amount of servers, so that could be a dent if deemed necessary.

What if then just A dedibox won't be enough? As cs 1.6 eats cpu a decent amount when alot of players are on the server, but then adding csgo server to that, it will probably cause lags and lagspikes alot. Are you guys willing to expand to more than 1 dedibox?

As I've said, hardware upgrade, potentially 1 more dedibox if we really have to (CPU/RAM issues).

[Rubix]

Will u make a csgo surf server with !rank !exp !knife etc ( with bhop )

Already in progress, it's been a pain in the arse to get a hold of a decent working plugin due to the best available plugin creator rage quitting off of Allied Modders and deleting his download links everywhere, but I've managed to stumble across an updated version of his plugin and so we should be set to work and do some testing on that today

[D00M]

What then if a wanna-be thug kid is going to come and DDoS ambrosia's dedibox? What kinda protection do you guys have? Are you guys using a ddos protected proxy, or does your host have DDoS protected firewall, example. CISCO etc.

[Rawrplus]

What then if a wanna-be thug kid is going to come and DDoS ambrosia's dedibox? What kinda protection do you guys have? Are you guys using a ddos protected proxy, or does your host have DDoS protected firewall, example. CISCO etc.

This is very tricky question, one that anybody who's in charge of anything doesn't really like to answer. Let me explain why.

I am not gonna name anything due to security reasons.

If you have any technical experience, you probably know it's impossible to completely deny DDoS attack. The furthest DDoS prevention technology has come is Mitigation. We're equipped with multiple DDoS protections and I'd like to believe we're secure from some random ddos attacks, although if it was an organized botnet, I'm pretty sure the servers would go offline immediately (just like in any other company that would get hit by DDoS) - I mean even the giants, like national banks have fallen victims to DDoS attacks and they have security measures worth more than probably wage of 50 people combined, so it would be very optimistic for me to say we're secure... all I can say is, secure enough not to get hunted down by somebody and to keep the community alive... Secured to best of our ability.

I know it sounds bad for members to read such reply, but that is the objective truth and sadly currently DDoS attacks are a very lethal way of e-bullying on internet and while it is illegal crime, there's very little you can currently do to be 100% secure from DDoS attacks. That's the harsh truth.

[header]

How is ambrosia's finacial situation and how will it be in future where there will be more resource eating CS:GO servers?

The same. We do not pay for individual servers, but for the dedibox as in whole.

Although we might do some performance upgrade if the community gets to grow and we'd need better hardware to run a larger amount of servers, so that could be a dent if deemed necessary.

What if then just A dedibox won't be enough? As cs 1.6 eats cpu a decent amount when alot of players are on the server, but then adding csgo server to that, it will probably cause lags and lagspikes alot. Are you guys willing to expand to more than 1 dedibox?

The dedi will be fine, The cs 1.6 servers aren't the main bulk of our CPU but we would leave some leverage just in case.
For our current plans and for most of our future ones the dedi is more than enough

[Ray]

As jailbreak is the most active server on your cs 1.6 list
And as you are expanding to cs:go in most of your servers...
What are the chances that you launch a cs:go server knowing it's easier to manage and has a lot more options than 1.6?


P.S. You're welcome for reminding you to make this topic :p

[Rawrplus]

As jailbreak is the most active server on your cs 1.6 list
And as you are expanding to cs:go in most of your servers...
What are the chances that you launch a cs:go server knowing it's easier to manage and has a lot more options than 1.6?


P.S. You're welcome for reminding you to make this topic :p

It's not on top of our priority list, but I think there's a pretty solid chance.  I will touch on this in an upcoming announcement today - So  I'm not really going to go into detail here, as I don't feel like typing the same thing twice (excuse me for my lazyness). But yeah, I feel like you'll find a good reply and reasoning there. (I'll link to it once it's finished).

[I-EKILER]

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