A mini sneak peak behind the scenes of how we do things on Raptor.nu, some details will be left out due privacy / security.   ARK have some admin tools built in, and third party programs can communicate with the game server. Every steam player have their own unique steamID to identify the player. Variants

Normally things like this never get posted, but in this case we make an example for educational purpose.   The service public available game servers offers, is an offer not a privilege. Being able to join such servers means, or should mean, that one should read the rules and follow the rules of the actual