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April Fools: Shutting down until further notice
Unfortunately, just when FAF is as busy as it has ever been, we have received a written warning which requires us to shut down our services before Midnight (GMT). Charges will be pressed against us if we do not comply. The reason is that, since our servers are hosted in Germany, German law applies to […]
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Brutus5000 becomes new DevOps councilor
Hi all, Until today, the DevOps councilor seat has been shared by me (Downlord) and DukeOfEarl. Since DukeOfEarl got too busy with his private life, he resigned. In the name of all of us, I would like to thank him for the time he spent on FAF. I am pleased to announce that his spot […]
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Enforcing Steam-Link for all new accounts
When we activated the one-account-per-machine mechanism with the server update last week, we were aware that it is easy to circumvent for dedicated villains. Yet, we gave it a try before taking more drastic measures. Unfortunately, as expected, people are circumventing it and continue their malicious behavior. As they can easily create new accounts once […]
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Enforcing one-account-per-machine
Dear FAF users, As some of you might know, FAF has a one-account-per-machine policy. This is necessary as some folks invest an incredible amount of time in creating multiple FAF accounts in order to circumvent bans, manipulate ratings upload cheat maps or for any other malicious behavior that hurt the FAF community. For quite a […]
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E-Mail server incident
Hi, We had troubles with our email server configuration which resulted in certain email providers (especially mai.ru) rejecting our emails. This has now been fixed. Most providers now accept our emails, but they might still classify it as SPAM. If you sign up for FAF, reset your password or expect emails from the forums, please […]