TimSad's Blaze & Player Dumps thread

[TimSad]

Another Blaze around 3:11am PST on all of our servers.

[TimSad]

DAMNIT! My servers are continuously being Blaze dumped today! This is bullshit!

How long must I keep this up? Constantly keeping my eyes on the servers and repopulating them? Servers don't fill themselves with BF3.

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

You have far more patience then our clan did.
We gave up well over a year ago.

[soja]

We just got into this game, and are still unfamiliar with a lot of the stuff.

How do you know if its a blaze dump? We weren't able to fill our server up past 15-20 players all day(how we held that number is still odd to me) then at around 9PM eastern the server shot up to 50 players. This is about the exact same time as yesterday.

Is there anything that will say "lost connection to blaze" or something?

Any quickmatch optimizing tips? We are currently running a Conquest Large server with dynamic slots from 48-64 and running some of the best maps only from game launch(no expansions needed).

EDIT: Can you trick the server into thinking it is connected to blaze when it disconnects? I know BF3 plugins are mainly rcon based, but still, would be interesting.

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

Even if you tricked the server into thinking it's still connected, Blaze is the authorization portion of when players join. No connection then no players can clear authorization. They can't seem to provide a stable link to their end from North America, and I guess anywhere else outside their own continient.

[soja]

Makes sense, oh well. I don't think I've been victim of a blaze drop yet as you guys have described them. Hope I never am

[TimSad]

All the players on all of my server just got dumped. Zero players throughout all of my servers! Anyone else?

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

Your banners don't show that.

[soja]

They do now

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

LOL

Slight delay?

[soja]

GT graphs update on like a 2 hour average I think, and the player counts every 5-10min.

[TacTicToe]

Timsad, do you think maybe it is time to pack it in with those servers? Seems to me the EA Gods are trying to tell you something...

[Sorry]

No problems for us today so far. Are you on a dedicated server Timsad?

[TimSad]

Too many of these still going on...

[Edge100x]

I've seen a couple of overall BF3 dips today that are not location-specific or machine-specific, so something's been going on with Blaze. I don't have any official information on what that is, but it's possible that the ISP hosting Blaze is being attacked or having connectivity problems.