Regarding hacks, hacker reporting, and server advertising. Please read before posting about them.

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[B]1. Hacks[/B]
Here's the current status on hackers, as mentioned in the [url=http://playrust.com/]Rust development blog[/url]:
[quote]Anticheat

The state of cheating is shitty again right now. We hear you. This is how it’s going to be for a few months: some weeks we’re going to win, some weeks they’re going to win. As long as people are willing to pay for cheats there’s going to be people willing to go the extra mile to create them. It probably doesn’t feel like it out there, but EAC are bulk banning every day. Please keep tweeting your reports to @rusthackreport – these are invaluable for us, not just for catching individuals, but for getting a sense of the global cheat situation.

A lot of this seems to be using the Steam refund system. Hackers are buying the game, cheating for 1 hour and 50 minutes, then quitting and getting a refund. I think this is what Valve added the game ban feature for, but I’m not sure how useful that is when we ban a user that has already got a refund. We’re going to have to contact Valve to see what we can do about this.

We’ll take steps in the game itself soon to restrict just how destructive hackers can be. We were trying to avoid serverside checks as much as possible–because we wanted EAC to take care of it all– but it’s obvious now that it’s not going to work in the long run.[/quote]

So yeah, progress is [I]still[/I] actively being done against hackers, as it always has been (numerous patches have been made to break hacks and VAC is also enabled). Please refrain from making new repeat threads demanding something be done because, well, something IS being done. Instead, please be patient and read up about it on the [url=http://playrust.com/]Rust development blog[/url] if you want further updates on the situation.
While the official servers do have admins, so many people use them that it's gonna be difficult to catch every hacker 24/7. You can always try some smaller community-run servers in the mean time if you prefer, but the best course of action is still gonna be some form of automated deterrents.

UPDATE:
[quote]Anti-Cheat

We had hoped that EAC could handle all of the anti-cheat stuff so we can concentrate on handling all the game stuff. It’s obvious that’s not working, so I did some work on a second-layer of anti-cheat this week.

One of the things I added was serverside noclip protection, that I’m sure that a lot of people have wanted for a long time. The good thing is you can’t write a cheat to break this; the bad thing is it may end up increasing the server’s CPU usage.

Things should get better over the next week. This won’t resolve cheating by any means. It will make them less obvious to everyone on a server, but also less destructive. I’ll be watching and listening and improving this more as time goes on.[/quote]
More progress is still being done.

[B]2. Reporting hackers[/B]
Here's the correct method for reporting a hacker, as mentioned in the [url=http://playrust.com/]Rust development blog[/url]:
[quote]We have seen an increase in cheats over the last couple of weeks. EAC are battling them, and they’re doing a decent job blocking and banning. They’ve just started blocking the method that the latest cheats are using, so hopefully there’ll be fewer now.

That all said – it is useful if you report suspicious behaviour. This means that EAC or ourselves can check it out and take action. That’s why we’ve set up [url=https://twitter.com/rusthackreport]@rusthackreport[/url]. If you come across someone cheating then please tweet to it with as much information as possible (server, steamid, what they’re doing). We won’t reply from this bot, but your messages will get read.

This is just a temporary measure. We’re going to get some in-game reporting set up soon. Not just for cheats but for people generally being assholes by spamming chat etc.[/quote]
[quote][url=http://www.easyanticheat.net/]Easy Anti Cheat[/url] have made some really good progress against cheaters this week. As well as blocking and banning a bunch of cheats/players, they’ve also integrated their cheat systems with the [url=https://twitter.com/rusthackreport]@rusthackreport[/url] twitter. This seems to be working well for now, but we’ll integrate something properly in the game at some point.[/quote]

Please refrain from making ban requests here on the forum over a cheater you saw. Use the [url=https://twitter.com/rusthackreport]twitter[/url] instead if you really want to help, and please [U]make sure you provide a link to their steam account[/U]. Just giving their name at the time is useless. Steam > View > Players if you want to find the steam ID's of people you've recently played with.

ALSO, you can now report hackers in game with the F7 key. Use that. if their name has unusual characters, copy-paste the name from their steam profile which you can find using the method above.

[B]3. Server advertising[/B]
It's not allowed here period. Please refrain from posting threads about your server here or you might get banned. Especially if your first post here is just a server advertisement.
If you want a place to advertise your server, please use this instead: [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/playrustservers/[/url]

Thanks for reading.