im think i know why we are randomly crashing, i was sitting here testing the server when i got a message saying "launcher has encountered and error and must close" as soon as i tried to start it back up it said it cold not connect to steam and closed again
this is going tobe a major problem if they dont fix it...we cant have our servers crashing because they lose touch with the mother ship

it took 5 attempts for me to get connected again, and there is nothing wrong with Internet.