There's a guy who keeps finding me anywhere I go

[DOOMie]

How is he doing that? I play on one server with this guy, i say bye go to another server and he shows up there too. then it keeps going on a few more times and i'm like wtf? what is he doing?

[Scarface]

He is obviously taking the piss, and we have no control over it. Either ask a server admin to ban him, or create your own server and password protect it.

[darkdreamingdan]

Just change your nickname to something he can't recognise, he can track your nickname by using the server browser of Game-Monitor.

[Xierra]

There's a simple trick how to make him not recognize you.

Change your nick and later you can go back with your previous nick after he's gone from MTA SA. simple trick isn't it?

[Scarface]

Wow XX3, where did you get that idea from?

[GodHandKiller]

LOL, thats kinda funny, though. But yeah, ban his ass.

[dzek (varez)]

i dont know much about xfire, but if you are using it - he probably can spot you with it..

[SirTerning]

Nope Xfire dosnt track servers from MTA, as far as i know it dosnt. Using it everyday

[dzek (varez)]

Nope Xfire dosnt track servers from MTA, as far as i know it dosnt. Using it everyday

i found something like that in my server logs:

xxx: how the hell did you find me again?

yyy: from xfire

xxx: argh!

i said i dont know anything about xfire, but ..

[MaddDogg]

Yes, XFire publicizes the server you're playing on by default.

I had a similar problem with our TeamSpeak voiceserver. Some day someone joined our server, although the port was never publicly shown. We changed the port, but this guy joined some days later again.

Btw, he tried to flood our server with bots.

Finally I realized that XFire was the cause by publishing the server data. But I was able to turn that off in the options under privacy. There you also find the option to turn off the posting of game server data to other people on XFire.