Introducing Sentinel.

[DrHam]

Sure?

Can you give comments on a thread like 'nice' When it was already more than 2 weeks old?

Yes. Read the rules again :p

5- No Necro-posting. This is replying to threads which haven't been posted on within 2 weeks. They are not allowed to be revived (does not include forum games or news threads).

EDIT: Didn't see @Ahs_Master 's post

 

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[GeldHaftige]

This is the NEWS page
''5- No Necro-posting. This is replying to threads which haven't been posted on within 2 weeks. They are not allowed to be revived (does not include forum games or news threads).''

Ok my error :(

I have never read what there was in parentheses. You're right...

 

[Ahs_Master]

Ok my error :(

I have never read what there was in parentheses. You're right...

np!

 

[Finnotastische]

I was temp banned for no reason by a sentinel today! In an eggwars game!

 

[ElPtricko]

I was temp banned for no reason by a sentinel today! In an eggwars game!

Please, go to https://appeals.cubecraft.net/ and appeal there explain in great detail the problem and the last thing you did on cubecraft before being banned.
If your appeal gets denied, then feel free to contact me and I will help you. (Click here to contact me!)
And if you have any other questions or need help with something do also contact me via the same link ;)

 

[DrHam]

If your appeal gets denied, then feel free to contact me and I will help you. (Click here to contact me!)

Why you? You cannot help him nor unban him. He should contact CrazyMan Jr.

 

[ElPtricko]

Why you? You cannot help him nor unban him. He should contact CrazyMan Jr.

I don't it is necessary to write a long text explaining all he has to do if he gets denied, as maybe he gets accepted.
So if he contacts me telling his appeal got denied I will then tell him to contact @CrazymanJR and the rest that he has to do. (And yes, I can actually help just like many others can)

 

[Toppie]

I just got banned for no reason too. I wonder if we were in the same game ElPtricko, western by any chance? It's insulting that I spent this morning battling against people who have various fighting hacks and I get banned when I don't hax at all. Not impressed cube craft.

 

[Marieke2001]

I just got banned for no reason too. I wonder if we were in the same game ElPtricko, western by any chance? It's insulting that I spent this morning battling against people who have various fighting hacks and I get banned when I don't hax at all. Not impressed cube craft.

Appeal. Describe in detail what happened and what your were doing at the time you got banned.

 

[Toppie]

I have appealed and given a brief description. Up to you guys to sort it out. I'd like to know why tbh bc how can you defend yourself if you don't know why you've been banned. I may have rambled about something entirely random. Still sucks btw and I'm beyond insulted.

 

[Ellie Williams]

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Never knew he can dance.

 

[Finnotastische]

Appeal. Describe in detail what happened and what your were doing at the time you got banned.

Yeah me too!

 

[Injunction]

Sure?

Can you give comments on a thread like 'nice' When it was already more than 2 weeks old?

it is allowed on news threads it is just not very useful

I have appealed and given a brief description. Up to you guys to sort it out. I'd like to know why tbh bc how can you defend yourself if you don't know why you've been banned. I may have rambled about something entirely random. Still sucks btw and I'm beyond insulted.

were you spam clicking in 1.9?

Yeah me too!

what is your IGN

 

[Toppie]

were you spam clicking in 1.9?

I was building a tower upwards to defend from an incoming sky bridge. I carry apples in my left hand so it's difficult to place blocks so I was clicking faster than I would in a fight. I needed to build high enough before they could jump to knock me off.

No response to the appeal so my ban continues - another innocent banned. Please address this issue cc, you will start to loose regular, honest and donating players. *wonders off to another server to play similar game else where*

 

[RayzMC]

Please, go to https://appeals.cubecraft.net/ and appeal there explain in great detail the problem and the last thing you did on cubecraft before being banned.
If your appeal gets denied, then feel free to contact me and I will help you. (Click here to contact me!)
And if you have any other questions or need help with something do also contact me via the same link ;)

Why you? You cannot help him nor unban him. He should contact CrazyMan Jr.

I agree,there is no need for him to contact you because of he denied appeal. ( so he will have to PM and you and wait just to get the information that I am about give below. ) You are not a staff and cannot really help him much.
You could just give him full details here.
Let me do so.

Hello,

If your appeal has been denied, please contact @CrazymanJR via a PM here: https://www.cubecraft.net/conversations/add?to=CrazymanJR
or via discord for a faster reply. Thanks!

 

[_The13thDoctor_]

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Hellooooooo CubeCrafters,

It’s been a long time coming but I am very glad to finally be able to share something that we have been working on for a while, Sentinel. Yes, after months of development, testing and sitting silently on the network gathering data we’re finally ready to release Sentinel. In case you haven’t guessed Sentinel is our new anti-cheat.

It’s no secret that we grew very quickly in a very short period of time over the last few years and the downside to that was that we didn’t get time to implement every feature that we wanted as our players increased. This release marks the initial deployment of a completely new system for the detection of illegal client modifications.

OK, What is Sentinel?
What a great question! Sentinel is an in-house written system that is always listening to what players are doing and how they’re playing. It has a large number of detections that work together to detect any abnormal behaviour from a player which can then lead to identification of illegal modifications.

Great! Hackers get banned straight away right!
Not exactly. To help prevent a constant cat and mouse game between ourselves and the mod developers we just log that a certain username is to be banned. This is common practice in many other games and on many other Minecraft Servers. Upon initial release we will be running ban waves on a daily schedule and in the future we will be increasing the frequency. It's not impossible that in the future we may move to instant bans.

Wait, you've made a system and you’re just going to release it?
No. As I mentioned above, Sentinel has been running on our network for quite a while initially logging data for us to look at then aiding staff members in locating cheaters across the network. This release contains just a small section of the detection methods we have after all, science fiction is always telling us what happens when you let Artificial Intelligence run amok.

Sounds good! Anything else I need to know?
2 things. They’re really small and will affect about 0.00000001% of you.
1) We’ll be changing our knock-back in PvP just a tad. It will make sure that we are correctly identifying players who are cheating. The difference between pure vanilla and what you will get on CubeCraft is so small you shouldn’t notice it.
2) Butterfly Clicking is now a punishable offence on the server. Now in 1.9 PvP butterfly clicking is completely pointless so this isn’t a major change, just something to be aware of.

Spoiler: What is Butterfly clicking?

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Butterfly clicking is the action of using multiple fingers to click the same button on your mouse. As you can see above it allows you to do so very quickly. This means that to us it looks like you're clicking way faster than you should be and will get detected as an offence. Butterfly clicking isn't really very useful in 1.9+ any way due to the changes that Mojang made to combat.

Cool! This is just the main network or 1.8 too?
For now we are actively rolling Sentinel out to our main network (1.9+). On our 1.8 network Sentinel will still be gathering data as there are a fair few differences in some of the core Minecraft mechanics.

How long will the bans be for?
In the short term we will be keeping ban times shorter. This allows Sentinel to get used to actual players. It also gives our community a chance to disable any modifications they have before getting long bans. If you have any illegal modifications in your client disable them.

Wait, even OptiFine?!
No. Any modifications that are on our “Allowed Mods List” are fine to use on our server. As a rule of thumb if it is a cosmetic modification and doesn’t change the way you play then it should be fine. However the only mods we can guarantee work fine are this on the “Allowed Mods List”.

We all make mistakes though, Sentinel will too!
Absolutely. Just rarely. We have every confidence in Sentinel because we have been testing it for so long but we know out of the hundreds of thousands of players and millions of sessions we get a day that there may be some false positives. If you are wrongly banned you will still be able to appeal. During your appeal you will have the option to flag the appeal as a “False Positive”. It should be noted though that when we are dealing with the appeal that it was not a false positive you will be permanently banned from the server.

I hope that you’re all as excited for this as we are. There's a long road ahead of us as we continue to improve Sentinel and I look forward to you all joining us. I’d also like to say thank you to the person who has been putting a huge amount of work in to this project @CrazymanJR.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an Egg I need to protect.

Its about time! ;)

 

[ElPtricko]

I agree,there is no need for him to contact you because of he denied appeal. ( so he will have to PM and you and wait just to get the information that I am about give below. ) You are not a staff and cannot really help him much.
You could just give him full details here.
Let me do so.

Hello,

If your appeal has been denied, please contact @CrazymanJR via a PM here: https://www.cubecraft.net/conversations/add?to=CrazymanJR
or via discord for a faster reply. Thanks!

I already told him what to do. I won't argue about this here, as that's not the right place to do it.
If you want to talk about it, then do it privately.

 

[Injunction]

Its about time! ;)

This is a 3 month old update for cryin' out loud

I was building a tower upwards to defend from an incoming sky bridge. I carry apples in my left hand so it's difficult to place blocks so I was clicking faster than I would in a fight. I needed to build high enough before they could jump to knock me off.

No response to the appeal so my ban continues - another innocent banned. Please address this issue cc, you will start to loose regular, honest and donating players. *wonders off to another server to play similar game else where*

what is you in game name?

 

[Toppie]

Well my faith has been restored. Thank you cube craft for reversing the incorrect decision of your sentinel. I am happy again and my faith is restored.

Maybe sentinel needs the algorithm that when a players height is increasing and they are clicking (or lagging) that it's not a fight situation so unlikely to be a hack. It is impossible to place blocks and fight.

Thanks again team :D