**Best FTB pack** : Server Owners Only Plz

[leetmindz]

Ok After about 2 weeks of non-stop headaches i'm almost ready to throw in the towel on DW20, Mainly because it's nearly impossible to protect without disabling multiple highly-used mods. so I figured it would be best to ask the FTB Community of Server Owners:

In your opinion/experience, which Pack is best for Servers?

(Is it completely protectable?)
(Is it Popular?)
(Is it highly customizable?)

 

[DZCreeper]

No pack is completely protection compatible. Instead you just need to trust players, run a whitelist, and ban those that don't listen. Keep backups in case they damage anything.
Ultimate pack is probably the most easy to protect, buts its very old and boring to most at this point. Direwolf20 is probably the best pack for servers at this point because its a good cross between performance and features and its already fairly popular.
All packs are equally customizable, they all use Minecraft Forge and have configs which allow most mods to work without issue by default.

 

[cjm721]

Or fix the ones that go around protections but most people find that to be a larger headache and pass that part onto others.

1) It is completely able to be protected if you have time to commit to keeping custom server version updated
2) Its a popular streamer's pack so normally.
3) Depends on how good you are with configs and reflection.

 

[MrBrunty]

Its feed the beast, not vanilla. You have to accept the fact that there is no easy way to protect the server. You have to either write your own plugin to protect things, use the slightly effective resources publicly available, implement a trusted system for the items, allowing them to be used by longlasting members, or just ban them all together. Either way, you shouldn't invest so heavily in FTB server ownership without working as a staff member on a successful server or being willing to put in a lot more work than you appear willing to

 

[Pantong]

Magicfarm2 ?

No pack is completely protection compatible.

TC4 Wands will bypass, Blood magic will bypass. Anything that bypasses bukkit(or regular server) block break events will not be protected.

My pvp server i run with uses MF2, thoes are the only items we have found in last 6 weeks of testing that break Towny protection. (have not tried world guard too much yet). And we just tell our users, "Use them to break into peoples land you will be banned, item's will be removed from crafting." Usually keeps people away from doing that...(most people do not even bring their wand out to pvp)

 

[Francis Baster]

I have to give credit to Legobear, the maintainer of the MyTown mod. He actively maintains his mod and works on all submitted bypass reports. He is currently working on the TC4 bypasses and Ars Magica dig spell protection.

But your best friend is rdiff-backup and MCEdit for localised roll-back when things go wrong. I also find MCBans and a white-list very effective =D