[Samantha]

I say everyone post \their\ way of crashing a server and we can rank them and see which way is the most creative. I will also be submitting an entry.

Rules:
1. The best snippet is ranked by popular vote after all snippets are submitted.
2. It has to crash the server.
3. Must be submitted by Saturday March 5th.
4. No multiple entries.
5. No copying peoples ways, who ever posts it first came up with the idea.
6. No extension dependency.
7. Crashes must be internally from a plugin.
8. No time limit on how long it needs to crash, but keep in mind if it's too long people might not like it.

Winners
- Top 3 places get to be placed in the main Server Crasher plugin.
- Other entries will be placed in a separate library of crash scripts as an inc file.

Why
Cause it's fun!

How
I'm sure we can get a vote going once all entries are submitted.

Goodluck!

[javalia]

crash ways that i know

1. AcceptEntityInput(0, "kill"); //server crash
2. AcceptEntityInput(client, "kill"); //server crash
3. SetEntityModel(entity, "blabla.mdl");//not precached, than boom! but only for server
5. while(true){CreateDataPack();} //server crash, horray! (by memory leak)
hm..this much is all that i remember or know...

[asherkin]

When I was testing Accelerator, I had to devise interesting ways to crash the server.
Deleting the world entity produces boring stack traces, so creating a new player entity was my favorite .

[FlaminSarge]

I say rename the plugin "The Apocalypse", have a 30 second timer with effects such as everyone blinded by white light, large continuous explosion noise, Headless Horseless Horsemenn spawning everywhere, etc. Then force a crash, then, if the map exists, go to this custom map: http://gaming.calculatedchaos.com/ph...p=63971#p63971

I'm not sure if you can set the map that the server starts on after a crash, so just suggest it in the plugin notes.

Also ServerCommand("map cp_dustbowl") or any other map *should* crash.

[ProdigySim]

If I were to do this I'd try to find a way to make srcds not just crash, but execute some custom machine code

[Stinkyfax]

reloading hlstatsx / hlstats:ce plugin randomly crashes server, so it's the solution to crash some servers.
another easy way of crashing i faced in my experience: change player's model to some non-precached.

[Samantha]

Well post snippets not just ideas , all looks good so far. FlaminSarge that sounds like a plan ;)

[namine]

Well, if someone wants it to change to a map, this map would be the best choice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOiPpQSmkA

[Samantha]

Originally Posted by namine Well, if someone wants it to change to a map, this map would be the best choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOiPpQSmkA

What does this have to do with anything?

[GoD-Tony]

This would be a great idea for a plugin if someone made it seriously. It's useful (at least for me) to test out how fast the server can recover from different types of crashes & hangs. Something that hangs the server would be most useful.