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Originally Posted by Flyswamper*:

 

Alright... good deal.

 

Hey, for what it's worth... I've just spent the last 30 minutes or so adding the functionality so that the plugin should be able to kick seeders when the server gets populated. I was just trying to test it out on Pharbehind's server (he's given me access). It seems like it should be working but during testing my soldier isn't getting kicked. I'm not absolutely certain, but I think it's probably because he only setup my account with enough privileges to move players (which is what the plugin mainly does) and I don't have access to kick players. And because I am running the plugin remotely (not parent layer) for testing I think it is limited to my account privileges.

 

Anyway...I'm kinda rambling here, but .... it needs a bit of testing (I need a bit more access for that).... but I think maybe I have the option to kick seeders when server gets full added. Was pretty easy addition that didn't affect the rest of the plugin much at all.

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Originally Posted by Flyswamper*:

 

Alright... I tested and it kicked me just fine. I've made a few more minor tweaks and have uploaded yet another update. Version 3.0 is now uploaded and available for any of you that might want the kicking option.

 

For now, I've left the 2.0.3.1 version up there also....just in case I introduced a new bug that didn't show up in my quick testing. I don't think I have but.... I'll delete/remove 2.0.3.1 after a few days with no reports of trouble from any of you guys (assuming at least a couple bother to load 3.0 and run it).

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I request though: to edit the kick message :ohmy:

He he .... ya.... I can see why. I just threw that in there without a lot of forethought. I'll poke around some tonight (or this weekend for sure) and fix that. I see another typo or two in the help screen that needs fixing as well.

 

Let me know if ya got any other ideas that might be useful. I'm in a bit of a mood to tinker with this so I'd love to hear about ideas. Of course, I probably would only do stuff that was relatively easy and safe to implement though....

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Originally Posted by pharbehind*:

 

Wouldn't it be fairly simple to look at the plugin within a text editor and tweak the kick message there? I mean, I don't mind it at all. The people who are on the list are aware of how the server operates. But if you wanted to customize it, I don't think it'd be hard.

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Originally Posted by EBassie*:

 

Wouldn't it be fairly simple to look at the plugin within a text editor and tweak the kick message there? I mean, I don't mind it at all. The people who are on the list are aware of how the server operates. But if you wanted to customize it, I don't think it'd be hard.

True that. I already did that for myself. But i thought the less experienced people here could use this.

 

And I wanted to change the text because all kicks are shown in the game chat. Wanted a funnier message :ohmy:

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Originally Posted by Flyswamper*:

 

Uploaded version 3.1.0.0 a few moments ago. Changes/adds are...

 

- Added ability to customize the kick-reason message

- Changed version number so it has 4 digits so it shows up again in Phogue's plugin usage monitoring system

- Fixed some typos in the help/info screen.

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Originally Posted by Sage-BRIG*:

 

I updated but now it will see a seeder when server full adn just move him back and forth so fast from team to team nothing can be done and it lags the server down. I have to restart teh plugin to stop it. Changed all settings and still have issue, any advise?

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Originally Posted by Flyswamper*:

 

Sage... have a look at the text in big bold and red letters above. Basically, you *MUST* put the designated seeders in the whitelist of any other balancer that might attempt to move the players back. If you get two plugins trying to move players to different teams, you will get this behavior.

 

So... *MAKE SURE* you have the seeders in the whitelist and any/all other plugins that attempt to manage whether players are on team 1 or team 2.

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Originally Posted by EBassie*:

 

Hey Flyswamper,

 

Is it possible to put seeders in squad "none" when the "last activity" timer kicks in?

 

I notice many players join the squads where the seeders are in and start complaining to them.

So this option makes automatically room for other players in the squad. This might result in better teamplay / squadplay on a starting server.

 

EDIT: Just to add, on roundchange I noticed the seeders are put in a squad again.

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Originally Posted by pharbehind*:

 

Hey Flyswamper,

 

Is it possible to put seeders in squad "none" when the "last activity" timer kicks in?

 

I notice many players join the squads where the seeders are in and start complaining to them.

So this option makes automatically room for other players in the squad. This might result in better teamplay / squadplay on a starting server.

 

EDIT: Just to add, on roundchange I noticed the seeders are put in a squad again.

This!! would be awesome.
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Originally Posted by Flyswamper*:

 

Sounds like that should be pretty easy to do. I've gone without a server of my own for a while now so I might be getting a bit rusty but I'll dust things off and have a look. It might be a few days or more before I get to it. Got a busy weekend coming up (when I'd normally dabble in this stuff). I have probably 6 basketball games to attend (my kids are in tournaments) this weekend as well as celebrating my b-day with the wife having quite a few activities. Also, the oldest offspring has finished his last exam at university and will be flying home this weekend. So..... it might be next weekend before I get to it. :smile: But I do think it's a great idea and I'll give it a shot.

 

I think I saw a thread where Ike and company have a server I might be able to do my testing on. Depending on that situation, it might also be helpful to once again get access to someone else's server temporarily for testing purposes. (I'm more of a trial-n-error kinda of programmer/debugger it would seem).

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Originally Posted by EBassie*:

 

Sounds like that should be pretty easy to do. I've gone without a server of my own for a while now so I might be getting a bit rusty but I'll dust things off and have a look. It might be a few days or more before I get to it. Got a busy weekend coming up (when I'd normally dabble in this stuff). I have probably 6 basketball games to attend (my kids are in tournaments) this weekend as well as celebrating my b-day with the wife having quite a few activities. Also, the oldest offspring has finished his last exam at university and will be flying home this weekend. So..... it might be next weekend before I get to it. :smile: But I do think it's a great idea and I'll give it a shot.

 

I think I saw a thread where Ike and company have a server I might be able to do my testing on. Depending on that situation, it might also be helpful to once again get access to someone else's server temporarily for testing purposes. (I'm more of a trial-n-error kinda of programmer/debugger it would seem).

Hey Flyswamper,

 

Not in a rush for this feature, so take your time. Even if it's not a real conquest. (pun intended) :ohmy:

As always I'm willing to test.

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Originally Posted by Flyswamper*:

 

Ok folks,

 

I'm sitting here worn out from a day of snow skiing, got out of the hot tub and decided to sit down with the laptop a few minutes and get thsi one out. :smile: Should have done this sooner because it appears the fix was incredibly easy to do. So easy that I've gotten over-confident and haven't even tried/tested it (tempting fate I know).

 

Anyway..... I just added a little check so that whenever my code was already determining that a seeder was idle that it now will send them to squad 0 if they aren't already there. This *should* keep the seeders out of squads.

 

Pharbehind, if you'll set me up as before I'll try to pop in and check that it's working ok.

 

Oh.... and just me being silly, but this code was written about 100meters up-slope from where this webcam is..

http://fernie.com/webcams/snow-creek-lodge-web-cam/

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I just now tried to do a little testing on the test server that Morpheus setup. Managed to connect and monitor it with ProCon but my copy of BF3 can't seem to stay connected to the server for more than a few seconds at a time. Not sure if it's my limited lodge/hotel internet or just that the server is in Aussie-land (or both). But... looks like I'll need to test on Pharbehind's server if that is ok...

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Originally Posted by pulpbiggles*:

 

Hi, been searching around and can't see anything that fits the bill completely, but this plugin is very close. Essentially I'm pretty much always seeding on my server and even when the server is full I want to stay logged on in case the server starts to empty - which it does. So I leave idle kick to 'off' so I don't get booted, unfortunately what I notice is that when the server is full I often get a number of 'random' players (not any of the admins/reserved players either) sitting idle in the server ...

 

Sooooo, is there any possibility of having an option that whitelists my reserved/VIP players/admins from idle kick but ensures 'randoms' get booted. Hopefully this is where somebody helpful points out something really obvious that I've missed, or Flyswamper thinks this is a good option and includes it in the future!

 

Cheers

 

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Originally Posted by Flyswamper*:

 

pulpbiggles,

 

That is certainly something that I have thought about in the past. As it is now, the plugin has the option to kick the seeders (your account) once the server gets full, but this plugin doesn't currently do anything to other (random) players that have been idle.

 

In the near/short term, a workable solution would be to get/find some other plugin that will serve as an idle kicker and work the way you want it, except that you would want to make sure your designated server-seeders were whitelisted in that other idle-kicking plugin. Assuming you can get another plugin that does the idle-kicking work, the combination of mine and that one *should* accomplish what you are seeking.

 

With that said, whenever I next am feeling a spurt of coding-energy it does seem like a reasonable addition that I could make so that I could have something that would watch all players in the server for idle-times and have a threshold to kick them. The thing is that my adding this really wouldn't add any functionality that couldn't be accomplished with the 2-plugin setup I mentioned earlier.

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Originally Posted by Flyswamper*:

 

No worries... much appreciated. I shall tread very lightly when testing! Keep in mind that soldiernames of Flyswamper and Snizzicks are me (so don't get alarmed when I kick and abuse them. :smile: )

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Originally Posted by pulpbiggles*:

 

In the near/short term, a workable solution would be to get/find some other plugin that will serve as an idle kicker and work the way you want it, except that you would want to make sure your designated server-seeders were whitelisted in that other idle-kicking plugin. Assuming you can get another plugin that does the idle-kicking work, the combination of mine and that one *should* accomplish what you are seeking.

Thanks for the response. Yeah this looks workable, but I suppose the thing is are there any plugins that operate as an idle kicker when that functionality is in-built, I'll take a look it could be the easy solution!

 

Thanks again.

 

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Originally Posted by Flyswamper*:

 

Ok, a bit of an update. Pharbehind has me setup to test on his server. I managed to connect this morning and watch the new version of my plugin and it seemed to be working correctly. It was moving idle seeders out of squads as it should. And I didn't see any other apparent trouble cropping up as a result of the change. So thats a good thing. Hopefully version 3.2.0.0 is ready to go for you guys. I'll leave the prior version available for download for a little while longer just in case, but I think if you upgrade to 3.2.0.0 it should work fine.

 

The caveat is that I was apparently still having connection problems and couldn't keep my own soldier account connected to his server. Was getting packet-flow errors and such. Seems like the resort/hotel internet where I'm at is likely the problem. Once I get home tomorrow I'll probably do a bit more checking/testing of the plugin. I'll also do some testing on a new plugin mentioned below...

 

 

 

pulpbiggles:

Myriades was the guy that wrote an idle kicker that I used for a while. If you search his profile and posts he made in the plugins section you should find it. I think it was called CIdleKicker or something very close. I found it yesterday and read through the forum posts on it. The good news is that the plugin exists. The bad news is that it looks like some bugs were reported that might have never been addressed and Myriades hasn't been online for a year or more here.

 

So.... I was feeling industrious last night and started writing my own somewhat simple idle-kicker utiltity. I can re-use much of the code in my current plugin and adapt it I think. With any luck I'll get something out in the next few days. My intent is to publish it as a separate idle-kicker and NOT integrate it into the BalanceServerSeeders plugin.

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