LMNT server 2.0!!!

HEY folks,

Good news, really good news!

After the climax on our server with trollers, flooders and cheaters, I took down our server. After my talks to Mario on the subject, developers really put the issue prio 1. And Mario started coding straight away.

We installed GIT on our server, to get mario's mod updated. This did introduce some issues, like a annoying delay on hook. This was fixed today.

What did we get back?:
1. The hook shoot loos option with sound, and not shooting u'r own hook loos
2. I added the vcall_mute "player" option, making it possible to mute spammers. This can also be done with "vdo" if u have the masterpass. The player does not notice he is muted, which is perfect imo as this will exhaust the spammer, as there is no reaction from others. The "mute" can be unmuted with vcall unmute "player".
3. There is a nice alternative hook option, try it "cl_prohook 1 (0 to revert)
4. We have changed the "ban" behind the scene. If someone is banned, using a different IP to log in, will not work anymore.

(see also F8 for some other options, which are currently not active...)

HOPE THIS MAKES FRAGGING FUN AGAIN.

And please "masters" of element, make sure we kick out people misusing/abusing or cheating.

Take care,

Kwakkie

Great news, thank's for taking care of the issue together with the devs Kwak Now we can finally adress the people who make our gaming experience on Xonotic not fun anymore. Maybe it's also good that if element members ban somebody they provide a screenshot and the reason on the forum. This way we all get updated because i don't think there is a banlist command avaible?

Sadly i did notice a sad bug for speedcappers like myself. Now you can't 'hook' and press 'crouch' to sit in one place while hooked. This technique is used on so many maps.

vega

I did notice that too. Might need to address this also.

Good to see u are there still vega, even though I don't recall you ingame, or at least I did not recognize you.

There is a banlist still, but this is only server related. I can screendump the players who are banned. The server does record bans, and ban times as long as it is not restarted.

For me it is not necessary to provide screenshots. reason is, I can also "unban" if it was not right. Rule is, misbehave, warning, then a few kicks, and then ban.

Kwakkie

Kwakkiezalf wrote:I did notice that too. Might need to address this also.

Good to see u are there still vega, even though I don't recall you ingame, or at least I did not recognize you.

There is a banlist still, but this is only server related. I can screendump the players who are banned. The server does record bans, and ban times as long as it is not restarted.

For me it is not necessary to provide screenshots. reason is, I can also "unban" if it was not right. Rule is, misbehave, warning, then a few kicks, and then ban.

Kwakkie

I was in Spain for a while but now i'm back playing a bit. Got to rank 300 in ctf pretty easy after i lost all my ELO xD

The screendump only works when you're online i asume? This means other members can't see the banlist in any way unless you're online. I wish there was a way for all masterpass users to see the banlist and to be able to unban.

vega

I need to check that. Banlist can be seen in server console for sure...Only if you have server access that is.

If you want the become more active let me know. I will give u access to new server.

Kwakkie

Kwakkiezalf wrote:I need to check that. Banlist can be seen in server console for sure...Only if you have server access that is.

If you want the become more active let me know. I will give u access to new server.

Kwakkie

Yes with rcon it's possible i believe but not all of us have that. I don't know yet how active i'll become, as for now i'll play every now and then

vega

Nice stuff!
Also I'm agree, if there is a way to get all noticed of bans/mutes it would be cool, by master pass or if people update a thread on forum.

But even with Mario's mode, we keep our settings right?

Hey baba,

Mario's mod does change some things here and there... But i have tried to make sure it is as it was...but better. Give it a try to see. There were many issues with the hook....but all solved i think.

Kwakkie

Kwakkiezalf wrote:Hey baba,

Mario's mod does change some things here and there... But i have tried to make sure it is as it was...but better. Give it a try to see. There were many issues with the hook....but all solved i think.

Kwakkie

The mod does make things a bit more laggy sadly :/

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I got some IRC plugins working again... decided to only put a few that actually are somewhat important instead of trying to fix them all.

I did see 2 Clan Arena irc bots in our irc channel, yet could only find one being run on the server. Do you have any idea why this is the case?

vega

I also noticed that...and i did try to fix it but ran out of time.

U can check rcon2irc config on server. The CA is running on old vps.

Kwakkie

Kwakkiezalf wrote:I also noticed that...and i did try to fix it but ran out of time.

U can check rcon2irc config on server. The CA is running on old vps.

Kwakkie

The problem was that some plugins are outdated and don't work anymore. I was able to fix a few but i dont know enough about it to get them all to work. It's a great start though and both should run a few plugins again

Vega

really good job guys! disco seems to be gone for real now! and CA server is fun!

for ircbot, if the standard rcon2irc is outdated/not working properly, there is other, more advanced choices too, like this https://github.com/mbasaglia/Melanobot_v2 which can handle multiple servers etc..

and btw, i also started programming my own irc bot for fun, which could be used to organize tournaments and such.. but it will take some time to code.. if you have any ideas for this, let me know

Wow u guys are really moving things. Thx icair for you dedication!
Looking forward to all the funky stuff.

Kwakkie

I'll normally be online soon, impatient to have a look to all the changes!