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Hello everyone! I’d like to share an experience that might serve as a lesson for anyone planning to work with third-party protection services—specifically, Active Anticheat. I know this might sound like a strange job request, but our player base mostly consists of veteran of Lineage 2 players who are used to using bots as part of their gameplay experience. As server administrators, we decided to adapt to our users. That’s why we approached Active Anticheat with a proposal: Allow bot usage under certain conditions. We explained everything in detail, and they agreed. February – A Promising Start On February 16th, we contacted Active Anticheat to request a custom antibot system. The idea was to kick players using bots during specific times (like sieges), but allow them to log back in without bots afterward. After a few discussions, both sides agreed on the following solution: Bots allowed during regular days. During siege events, anyone using a bot would be automatically kicked. Kicked players could log back in without using bots. The deal was priced at $5,000, which we already paid on March 31st, 2025. Active Anticheat promised delivery by the end of April, or at the latest, by May. Screenshot: Deal 1 Deal 2 May – The Delays Begin We followed up multiple times in May, only to finally hear back on May 26th: “It won’t be ready this month. But we’re working on a big update coming in June.” That update? Still nowhere to be seen, even as I’m writing this post. Screenshot: Delayed Plan B – L2Walker Rejected, Adrenaline Offered With our server launch schedule getting tighter, we needed an alternative. At the end of June, we asked Active Anticheat: “Can you at least allow L2Walker access to the server?” Their response on June 28th: “L2Walker can’t be allowed. But we can allow Adrenaline (free & paid version) and L2Helper for $2,000 + $300 (for a new license).” We agreed, hoping it would be a temporary fix while waiting for the promised “big update” (which we had already paid $5,000 for, remember?). Screenshot: New Offer 1 New Offer 2 New Offer 3 AA Failed Their setup took about a week. We ran 2–3 rounds of testing using clean clients. The result? Adrenaline (both free and paid) couldn’t connect to our server. It couldn’t detect the Lineage 2 client, because the custom Active Anticheat protection was blocking it. We reached out to Active Anticheat for support, and their response? “You should contact Adrenaline support to enable free Adrenaline for your server. Adrenaline blocks it by default when Active Anticheat is detected.” Then we tested Premium Adrenaline. And it still didn’t work. Active Anticheat stood firm: “It’s not our fault. Adrenaline blocked us—not the other way around.” Screenshot: Failed 1 Failed 2 The Bitter Reality Today, we’re still waiting for answers. No reply. No fix. No update. No refund. We’ve spent a total of $7,300 and received nothing functional in return. And this, despite their full agreement with our initial plan.

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Refunded Too bad that you couldn't finish it on time.

Waiting for more than a month, still no delivery.

This guy is joking when he promises his clients that he will send it in a few days.

You haven't delivered my 120 euro custom updater yet You said it will be finished in 7-10 days and I gave you more couple days than you promised me.

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You can do the same for your webhost if you have anything that needs to connect to your MySQL server; you could limit it to TCP and 3306 port though instead of accessing it all. --> If you have problem to connect your MySQL webhost to your MySQL game server, better turn off firewall and sniff your webhost IP Address before add your webhost IP Address to firewall. As sometimes hosting use multiple IP Address for balancing and security reasons. TY @Trance

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And what is measure of “success”???

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Based on the video I saw that the character response is not quick enough, good luck anyways!

Problem solved! my l2.exe not support for more than 2 gigabytes before need CFF explorer to make it handle more than 2GB. I will lock this topic!