I haven't checked in a while, but on most English servers you need to play a ridiculous amount of hours to play something besides assistant. I distinctly remember on the default servers MIME of all things required like 4 hours on other things. Head roles required dozens of hours between different things.
SSMV is the best hope right now because auth is per-server. That is, it doesn't matter who runs the whole thing because you don't need anyone above you, nor can anyone at all make your server unplayable. The worst case with per-server auth is that e.g. the hub or engine CDN or launcher download goes down and you have to rehost that yourself, which would only take you out of commission for a day or two if you're a competent host.
Currently yes, in the future no.
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They can ban servers from auth also. It's happened once. That's why alternative auth is a thing in the first place. I guess though there's not a huge risk in just making them auth ban you before you switch auth. I think hubbed -> dehubbed is going to be much more impactful than authed -> deauthed. Not enough data though.
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There's a bunch of these alt server lists, it doesn't solve the auth problem where you're still dependent on their auth. I guess there's also no downside to advertising on all of them at once, though.
It's not too much a technical challenge; you'd just need 3 or 4 more classic SS13 community servers to throw in on the same alternative at once.
