In game admin for BF2142.

[carty]

Any updates on the beta testing for this?

[epoch]

Bump !!

[K]

Afraid not, haven't had any spare time recently.

[K]

This has now hit BETA2 and is available to all Multiplay bf2142 server via ClanForge. See ClanForge news for more info.

[Wilde]

I can only get Restart and Next to work. Kick and the others only say that I have become admin and then left admin and do nothing.

[.Griff.]

I can only get Restart and Next to work. Kick and the others only say that I have become admin and then left admin and do nothing.

Exactly the same problem for me - http://forums.multiplay.co.uk/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=47579

[Wilde]

Yep

[carty]

Set up and heres my results.

list - working
kick - working
switch - working
restart - working
next - working
ban - working
map - not working - says map not allowed on a ranked server
warn - not quite - only works on player 0 , other numbers it doesnt work

Ive set up our admins with all. I havent tried individual k b etc. So I cant confirm whether that works. We dont have a need for multi levels so I probably wont get around to testing it. Perhaps thats why some of you guys are having mixed results. Have a play around with the settings a bit.

Fantastic job multiplay chaps.

Enjoy.

[.Griff.]

Just a bit confused by you post there carty..

You say !kick, !ban work but then go on to say you haven't tried "individual !k !b etc"

If you haven't tried them then how do you know the commands work?

[K]

map - not working - says map not allowed on a ranked server
That will be you choosing a map thats not a standard map?

warn: you can use the names you know

[m4r5h]

i have the same problem as wilde, only !r and !n work tried to kick and warn but it says im now an Admin and i gave up Admin this is what ive added to serversettings.con

sv.adminScript "modmanager"

and i added

mm_iga.addAdmin "xxxxxxxx:all"

to modmanager.con


Can anyone help ??

[epoch]

All commands work for me. For reference, I am logging in to RCON in the console when I join the game using "RCON LOGIN <rcon password>".

Don't know if that's necessary anyway, but it's working for me.

[m4r5h]

yeh i do aswell but still the same problem

[carty]

Dont log in to use rcon. The commands themselves do this for you. This is why you see the message xxx became a system administrator and then xxx stopped being an administrator. It logs you in , does the command , then logs you out.

K, i did !map 1 , !map gibraltar !map camp_gibraltar etc, all same result. Ill double check tonight.

Regarding the confusion Griff. I did the commands !kick !ban etc. When i referred to not using k and b i meant for permisions in the modmanagercon. ie ive used the permission all as opposed to k,b for example.

I havent tried to do !k in game i didnt realise that worked. I thought you had to say !kick. Will try that tonight.

!warn definately only works for player 0. I have double checked this.

As it stands right now its pretty much what was required. This has made my guys and myself happy campers :D

[carty]

Just thinking some more.

For kick and ban you must have the right format.

Assuming the player you want to deal with is player number 4

!kick 4 "Padder"

!ban 4 perm "Hacking"

Hope that makes sense.

[K]

If you have a look in the modmanager.log file are their any errors this will help find any issue.

[K]

FYI: kick, ban and warn all use multi format <player> which can be either playerid or player name

[m4r5h]

ok i got all the commands working now, but it still comes us sayin I became a SA and i gave up SA

Any ideas?

[Wilde]

Dont log in to use rcon. The commands themselves do this for you. This is why you see the message xxx became a system administrator and then xxx stopped being an administrator. It logs you in , does the command , then logs you out.


It's suposed to do that.

[.Griff.]

!list is working for me now and I can successfully kick people using the !k 2 (or other player numbers) command.

What is the exact format I need to enter to kick and/or warn people with reasons?

[carty]

!k 2 "reason"
!b 2 perm "reason"
!w 2 "reason"

I have tried just !k instead of !kick and yeah it does work :D

On testing kick and ban tho with the above formats the player doesnt get a reason come up. However in clanforge you do see the ban reason if you follow the format above.

[carty]

My turn to ask now. Anyone else getting the issue were warn works for player 0 only, and anyone got map working cos i cannae. Ta

[.Griff.]

So you actually include the quotation marks or are they just there as part of your example?

[Wilde]

Also where are you getting the player numbers from? Tried it with there names and I can't make it work.

[.Griff.]

Also where are you getting the player numbers from? Tried it with there names and I can't make it work.

Use the !list command then open your console and the names/player numbers appear.

[carty]

An easier way to get the player numbers is to click on manage on the player list. This shows you the same numebrs as in list.

Yes you put the quotation marks as i typed them.

[epoch]

Dont log in to use rcon. The commands themselves do this for you. This is why you see the message xxx became a system administrator and then xxx stopped being an administrator. It logs you in , does the command , then logs you out.

Can you confirm though, that logging into RCON is not a problem?

I'd prefer to log in when I join the server, and issue commands as needed. That way, the already cluttered (and badly designed) screen layout doesn't get messed up with the admin became/stopped being an administrator messages. I'd prefer warnings, kick notices etc were seen by the intended recipients, and not missed due to a plethora of incidental messages.

Thanks for your work on this though! Very much appreciated by us all methinks.

[carty]

I can confirm that logging into rcon IS a problem.

When I was getting one of my guys to test he was already logged in and the commands did not work. He logged out and tried again and they did then work. So do not be logged into rcon to use these methods. You really dont need to be logged into rcon for any reason now in my opinion.

Only thing I can think of to stop the messages appearing would be to disble the admin notification. As I stated earlier these commands log you in so they can be run. The server just simply announces this fact. Now im not sure if you can disable the message via another setting. My guess is you probably can. Ill have a mosy around. If anyone else knows this then feel free to let us know.

Carty.

[carty]

mm_rcon.loginMessage "%s became a server administrator"
mm_rcon.logoutMessage "%s gave up administrator rights"

These are the 2 entries for the messages. I cant find a message on or off type variable so perhaps making these null might help. It might just print your name twice though! Seems to me you could have some fun with it however. xxx became God for example :D

My server is currently populated so I cant restart to test this presently. Ill have a go when its empty.

[epoch]

Just to reply to Carty's post above, yup - warn only works for player 0 for some reason.

[K]

please check your modmanager.log file for errors after using warn for another player as Im unable to reproduce ur problem.

[.Griff.]

Just to reply to Carty's post above, yup - warn only works for player 0 for some reason.

Same problem here as well.

[K]

And you modmanager.log says what when this happens?

[.Griff.]

And you modmanager.log says what when this happens?

[2007-02-11 21:23:32] Debug[4]: Chat[4]: '!kick 14 "loser"'
[2007-02-11 21:23:32] Debug[4]: CMD?: 'kick' '14 "loser"'
[2007-02-11 21:23:32] Debug[4]: Looking for: 9a94d93b1eb3a8d3bba7a5e5e465e9ad, 82331346
[2007-02-11 21:23:32] Info: Authed '4 from 87.80.62.29 name='[-CT-] UBERFurious'' by InGameAdmin.inGameAuth at level 100
[2007-02-11 21:23:32] Debug[4]: Chat[-1]: '[-CT-] UBERFurious became a server administrator'
[2007-02-11 21:23:32] Debug[4]: cmdKickPlayer '14 "loser"' by 4 from 87.80.62.29 name='[-CT-] UBERFurious'
[2007-02-11 21:23:32] Debug[4]: Chat[-1]: 'USA-WolfBoy you are being kicked (reason: loser)'
[2007-02-11 21:23:32] Info: 4 from 87.80.62.29 name='[-CT-] UBERFurious' logged out
[2007-02-11 21:23:32] Debug[4]: Chat[-1]: '[-CT-] UBERFurious gave up administrator rights'

2007-02-11 20:47:02] Debug[4]: Chat[3]: '!w 2 "warning"'
[2007-02-11 20:47:02] Debug[4]: CMD?: 'w' '2 "warning"'
[2007-02-11 20:47:02] Debug[4]: Looking for: 88db5efefc814507caef2f43bb12f2e5, 85784031
[2007-02-11 20:47:02] Info: Authed '3 from 84.12.58.182 name='[-CT-] em0hwk'' by InGameAdmin.inGameAuth at level 100
[2007-02-11 20:47:02] Debug[4]: Chat[-1]: '[-CT-] em0hwk became a server administrator'
[2007-02-11 20:47:02] Debug[4]: mm_bf2cc 'sendplayerchat 2 "warning"' by 3 from 84.12.58.182 name='[-CT-] em0hwk'
[2007-02-11 20:47:02] Debug[4]: Chat[-1]: '[Admin] warning'
[2007-02-11 20:47:02] Info: 3 from 84.12.58.182 name='[-CT-] em0hwk' logged out
[2007-02-11 20:47:02] Debug[4]: Chat[-1]: '[-CT-] em0hwk gave up administrator rights'

That's just two examples I cam across and in both circumstances no warning was displayed ingame.

[K]

That shows that the kick / warnings are working fine. If your expecting to see the warnings given to other players you wont as they are sent to the player only.

[.Griff.]

The first player kicked with the tongue in cheek reason "loser" was me and I certainly didn't see any reason given at all.

The second warning was issued by me to a fellow clan member and he didn't see any warning/text either.

Rest assured we have tried this with up to 6 admins on the server sending each other warnings and kicking each other with reasons. It simply doesn't work as indicated by other people commenting in this thread.

[K]

Sounds like EA / Dice have broken player messaging again then :(

[carty]

tested !map again

format that works is !map camp_gibraltar or !map cerbere_landing

basically you must put the whole name and replace the space with _ as above

so verdun is easy :D

cant find any other way that works , like the number for example but I dont see that as a big problem.

[K]

Thats correct those are the actual names of the maps

[carty]

Re Warning.

No bugger heeds warnings anyways , lol

[[LoG]_HMCI]

mm_rcon.loginMessage "%s became a server administrator"
mm_rcon.logoutMessage "%s gave up administrator rights"

These are the 2 entries for the messages. I cant find a message on or off type variable so perhaps making these null might help. It might just print your name twice though! Seems to me you could have some fun with it however. xxx became God for example :D

My server is currently populated so I cant restart to test this presently. Ill have a go when its empty.


I just deleted the comments now all it shows is ADMIN nothing bout admin loggin in n out now

mm_rcon.loginMessage ""
mm_rcon.logoutMessage ""

change it to that or just put any ole nonsence in

[Ram2000]

Is this only for 2142 of for BF2 aswell ?

[K]

Not unless you havent restarted since it was updated ages ago. Turned out player say to any player other than player 0 is broken so although it was doing exactly as asked BF2142 was ignoring it. I reverted MM to use say all a long while back which fixed this.

[jonskibtc]

Using the same server ( BF2 ) as Ram2000 above , if I do " say all !warn [BTC]Ram2000 muppetry " the msg on the server just says "[Admin] warn" , it doesn't say who the warning is to or the reason . Am I doing it wrong ? , not that I'd be surprised :o .

[K]

I've just tested this and it works correctly from the command you did you should have seen:
[Admin] muppetry

If you want the players name or anything specfic in the message you nee to include that e.g.
!warn [BTC]Ram2000 Stop doing that [BTC]Ram2000!

[jonskibtc]

Thats where I was going wrong , not including the name in the reason msg

thanks for that .

[KingMaDDoG]

if i type !k kingmaddog , it does nothing but when i look in my console its says failed to find player??

[K]

That will be a because thats not your player name in game.

[KingMaDDoG]

Yep it is my Ingame name , so its strange when i use the player id it works fine but not with a name

Thx

[K]

If your using a clan tag thats also part of your in game nick so you will need to include that as well.

[KingMaDDoG]

Well my in game name is =Uzi= KingMaDDoG and it doesnt work when i type !k =Uzi= KingMaDDoG test , it just doesnt work , annt idee's??

[K]

As said many times you need to quote names with spaces:
!k "=Uzi= KingMaDDoG" test

[cobra5665]

hi there

im getting a problem where ive entered all nessary details correct but im getting it saying i logged in and out of adminsitarton,

also this error occurs Error: player cobra not found

[K]

The problem is just what the error says, there was no such player on the server. Ensure you have typed in the EXACT player name, if this includes spaces ensure you quote the name e.g.
!w "CLAN bobby" Stop that bobby!

[Hatter]

can someone explain to me how the switch command works?

i thought it was just !switch <playername>

but wen i do tht, in the console it says error - invalid switch mode


any suggestions?

[K]

That should only happen if you have a player name with spaces in and you dont quote the player name.

[Hatter]

i always quote the name, and it did nothing wen i tried using the !list command and replacing the name with the number, ill get another admin to double check im not being a fool but any suggestions in the mean time would be great

[K]

The best thing to do is to check the modmanager.log file for more information.

[Hatter]

heres some of it, i dont really know wat to look for, this was after typin in

!switch "=GC= Hatter"

tryin !switch 3 did nothing


[2007-06-28 17:02:20] Info: Authed '3 from 80.193.191.55 name='=GC= Hatter'' by InGameAdmin.inGameAuth at level 100
[2007-06-28 17:02:20] Error: Invalid switch_mode 'Hatter"'
[2007-06-28 17:02:20] Info: 3 from 80.193.191.55 name='=GC= Hatter' logged out
[2007-06-28 17:02:51] Info: Authed '3 from 80.193.191.55 name='=GC= Hatter'' by InGameAdmin.inGameAuth at level 100
[2007-06-28 17:02:51] Error: Invalid switch_mode '"=GC='
[2007-06-28 17:02:51] Info: 3 from 80.193.191.55 name='=GC= Hatter' logged out
[2007-06-28 17:03:19] Info: Authed '3 from 80.193.191.55 name='=GC= Hatter'' by InGameAdmin.inGameAuth at level 100
[2007-06-28 17:03:19] Error: Invalid switch_mode '"=GC='
[2007-06-28 17:03:19] Info: 3 from 80.193.191.55 name='=GC= Hatter' logged out

[K]

I'll have to have a look at that one Hatter

[Hatter]

did you manage to find anything k


ive been lookin at all the different settings and cant see anything that would cause it not to work

we can do without its just it is a nice tool to have when needed


cheers, hatter