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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Description

 

AdminIn & Spawn Message let you announce that an admin has joined the game.

Furthermore you can set it to spam a message to a player spawning, and also have

announce bans and kicks of players in the game to all others.

 

You have also the ability to let the plug-in interprete the gameservers uptime and round

times send with the serverInfo response and displayed in game via chat messages. While

one of server uptime or round duration is enabled you can choose to have it displayed

in-game, on the chat-tab or both. If you only want this information on the plug-in console

enable 'Console Output'.

 

Installation Instructions

 

Please refer to the download section down below.

 

Configuration

 

Announce admin

Enables or disables the announcement of a admin joining (global)

 

Announce admins name

Enables or disables if the admin should be identified by name.

Use %name% as placeholder in your message.

 

Check admin privileges

Enables or disables to check if a joining player is on the account list and

has the right to do temp. bans. Therefor he is treaded as admin.

 

Announce bans

Enables or disables announcement of VIPs who have entered the game to all players.

This function first checks the list given by the plugin and then the reservedSlotsList of the server.

 

Announce bans

Enables or disables the announcement of bans to all players.

Will only announce bans of players in the game. Banning offline players will not be send to chat.

 

Announce kicks

Enables or disables the announcement of kicks to all players.

Will only announce kicks of players in the game. If a banned player tries again to join

the resulting kick will not be announced. The first kick of a banned player will not be

announced because the ban will be announced first.

 

Only named bans

Enables or disables the announcement of only bans on player names.

If disabled also EA_GUID and PB_GUID bans will be announce with the players name.

 

Enable onSpawn message

Enables or disables that a message is send to a player every time he spawns

 

Show round duration

The plug-in will announce the duration the actual round is running.

 

Round Interval (min)

Sets the interval in minutes to show the round duration information.

 

Show server uptime

The plug-in will announce the actual server uptime.

 

Uptime Interval (min)

Sets the interval in minutes to show the server uptime.

 

Show In-Game

Select Yes to have the above information send as chat message to all players.

 

Show on Chat-Tab

Select Yes to have the above information displayed on Procons chat tab. This will also show up in an enabled chat log.

 

Spot players

Will enable chat messages spotting players joining during pre-round mode to inform waiting players.

 

Spot on Chat-Tab

Will show the spotting also on the chat tab if you do not want to enable join/leave messages there

 

Console output

Enables or disables monitoring of messages send ingame on plugin console

 

Debug output

Enables or disables some more debuging output

 

Quiet mode

Enables or disables in-game output. If enabled Console output is enabled to.

Console or Debug output must be enabled while this is enabled.

 

The rest should be self explaining.

:smile:

 

*Info pop-ups done by this plugin target the procon initial running this plugin.

While installed on a layer host this will be the layer host. As a result there can be

situations where those info pop-ups block saving of settings or reactions.

 

Technical Support

 

If you experience any issues with this plugin, please report here.

 

Changelog

 

1.3.6.0 (2015-03-31)

- added Battefield Hardline compatibility

 

1.3.5.2 (2014-02-10)

- added check to announce multi joiner only once

 

1.3.5.1 (2014-02-08)

- fixed kick announcement for BF4 (thx EBassie)

- made spotting message editable

 

1.3.5.0 (2014-02-05)

- added switch for reservedSlotsList vip announcement

- added player spoting for BF4

-- this announces every player who is not admin or vip in preround or always based on the spotting settings

- added BF4 yell compatibility

 

1.3.4.0 (2014-01-21) (Edit by EBassie)

- added compatibility for BF4

 

1.3.3.0 (2013-02-06)

- added compatibility for MoHW

- player spotting now work

- messages can be yelled, except onSpawnMessage that goes to the fireteam - added ability to have joining players announced even after the first kill

 

1.3.2.0 (2012-07-09)

- added announcing of VIPs based on reservedSlotsList / server based VIP list

 

1.3.1.0 (2012-04-02)

- added yell to round duration

- added announcing of VIPs

 

1.3.0.0 (2012-04-02)

- fixed BF3 kick/ban detection again

- added customizable chat-tab message prefix

 

1.2.3.0 (2012-04-01)

- enabled all yell functions for BF3 again.

 

1.2.2.1 (2011-11-23)

- added workaround to have kicks announced in BF3

 

1.2.2.0 (2011-11-23)

- added player spotting in pre-round mode

 

1.2.1.1 (2011-11-19)

- fixed not to be able to totally disable time display

 

1.2.1.1 -> 1.2.1.0 (2011-11-18)

- fixed not to be able to totally disable time display, output was still done to plugin console

 

1.2.0.2 -> 1.2.1.0 (2011-11-18)

- added option to announce server uptime and RoundTime.

- fixed constant Game discover output. Now checks debug / console output setting.

 

1.2.0.1 -> 1.2.0.2 (2011-11-14)

- packages update to include lost bf3 file. Sorry. This had only an impact to new installers.

 

1.2.0.0 -> 1.2.0.1 (2011-11-13)

- added switch for layer hosted plugin to prevent info popups*.

 

1.1.3.2 -> 1.2.0.0 (2011-11-10)

- fixed for BF3 compatibility

- Note: with BF3 yell and also individual spawn messages are not possible.

 

1.1.3.1 -> 1.1.3.2 (2011-06-16)

- added rewrite for PC_DIALOG_TEXT_VIPKICK string send by the server

- added option to define the replacement text

 

1.1.3.0 -> 1.1.3.1 (2011-03-04)

- fixed bug with Yell bans

 

1.1.2.0 -> 1.1.3.0 (2011-03-03)

- added switches for detailed settings to report which type of ban / kick

 

1.1.1.0 -> 1.1.2.0 (2011-02-21)

- added switches to enable/disable plugin chat messages on chat tab

 

v.1.1.0.0 -> v 1.1.1.0 (2001-01-20)

- added kick announcement

- added ban/kick messages to be changeable

- added automated cut of chat message length to 100 chars if entered message combined with username and reason exceeds this limit

 

v.1.0.0.0 -> v 1.1.0.0 (2001-01-18)

- added spawn message interval

- added output of messages on the chat console for better following

- added announcement of bans

 

v 1.0.0.0 (2011-01-15)

- Plugin released.

 

 

Download

You can use the package tab on the Procon start page.

Please have patience. Sometimes an update of the packages page takes a while.

 

To-Do

- nothing to do. :ohmy: or wait for feedback

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi.

 

Thanks for the feedback. :smile:

Much appreciated even on such a simple plugin done to satisfy two simple tasks.

 

Well, i'm thinking about adding a respawn counter not to spam the message after

every death which can get annoying.

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi.

 

I've updated the first post with a new version.

v 1.1.0.0 includes an interval switch for not to spam the respan message on every respawn.

Also it can be used to announce bans on players in the game to all other players.

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi.

 

Would it also have the options to announce the kicks aswell?

Not with the v 1.1.0.0. There is only the ban announcement.

I have to look at it, as it should prevent to announce a ban of player

Troublemaker if i has announced him to be kicked off the server.

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by prt3*:

 

It is working well so far.

Tested it a few times last night, and the announce is showing up well.

 

I agree with you there, if the kick can also announce, it could well calm a few others down and stop any bans

 

Nice work

 

 

Regards

 

Prt3

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Originally Posted by prt3*:

 

Hi Phil,

 

Been testing it out for a little while, and have to say the kick announce and ban announce works well.

It also displays kick messages to in game from another plugin aswell

 

 

[18:07:16] AdminIn_and_SpawnMsg > KoxxxxxRUS was kicked for: PunkBuster kicked player 'KoxxxxRUS' (for 0 minutes) ... Sorry, players from Russian Federation are not allowed." [Admin Decision].

 

[18:30:27] AdminIn_and_SpawnMsg > NOCHANCEseTROLL was kicked for: PunkBuster permanent ban issued on this Game Server for player 'NOCHANCEseTROLL' ... GLOBAL PunkBuster GUID BAN f308389f

 

Nice work Phil,

 

thank you

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Originally Posted by MadIzm*:

 

Hey man,

 

I am a bit of a noob but i dont understand this part: Use {0} as placeholder for the playername and {1} for the reason in the message.

 

 

Can you give me a example of how i should set this up?

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi.

 

I am a bit of a noob but i dont understand this part:

Use {0} as placeholder for the playername and {1} for the reason in the message.

Can you give me a example of how i should set this up?
No problem.

Think of {0} and {1} as placeholders as that is what they are.

If they are included in a message they will be replaced by the name of the player ({0}) and the reason why he

was kicked. ({1}). Having this in mind the sentence

Code:

Player: {0} was kicked for: {1}.
will be completed by the plugin to

Code:

Player: BadPlayer was kicked for: Making to many trouble.
Take a look at the settings and there on "Msg on bans" and "Msg on kicks".

There you see how they are used. You can change the messages to your own

but keep in mind that {0} is for the player name and {1} for the reason.

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi.

 

Just remember that your kick / ban message must be 30 chars or less with this plugin

You are right.

But that should be no big problem as i have done the plugin to check the length of the text.

The manual entered message is limited to 30 chars because a say or yell message is restricted to 100 chars,

the reason for ban/kick you can enter is limited to 80 chars and a player name can take up to 16 chars.

That's what the rcon documentation says. So limiting to 30 chars is a bit fuzzy over all.

 

Furthermore the plugin detects if a ingame message is longer then 100 chars and cuts it behind

the 100th char to make sure the message is displayed. It is best to place the reason at the end as it can

get truncated.

:smile:

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by OzumSage*:

 

we were going to use this, but had a request. we have a preferred player list and was wanting to know if the plugin can be altered so there are 2 lists for join announcements. one list for preferred players and another for an admin so that we can make 2 different messages for 2 different types of players.

 

didn't know if that would be something you would put in future releases.

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi.

 

we were going to use this, but had a request. we have a preferred player list and was wanting to know if the plugin can be altered so there are 2 lists for join announcements. one list for preferred players and another for an admin so that we can make 2 different messages for 2 different types of players.

Well, may be you can be a bit more specific.

 

Remember the goal of this plugin:

It should announce the entry of an admin to all players to have them noticing that an admin is

with them. Second it should send a message to a respawned player in intervals to make some

announcement, for example "stand up and fight" or have it announce your clans webpage.

 

If you want to greet a joined player better use the "message based on playername" plugin as

mentioned above.

 

So what goal do you connect with having an entry of a preferred player announced to all other

players?

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by westernmg*:

 

Hi Phil.

First i have to say thank you for your great work.

 

The plugin is running well and doing what it was made for but i have one question.

 

When players are kicked because a VIP joins the server there will come a notification like this "PC_DIALOG_TEXT_VIPKICK".

 

Is it possible to change this enywhere?

A message like "(playername) was kicked because a Member joined" would be much better.

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Originally Posted by MorpheusX(AUT)*:

 

The VIP-Slot Kicks are executed by the gameserver, not PRoCon.

Thus the gameserver decides who gets kicked, and the gameserver also creates the kick-reason.

 

As far as I know, there is no possibility to change this. But your kick-reason seems a bit strange to me, maybe there's an error within you gamefiles. I guess you'd better ask your Game Server Provider about that.

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Originally Posted by ToM666*:

 

Hi mate, just plugged this puppy in and a few things dont seem to be working correctly.

 

This is probably down to me but thought it would be constructive to give feedback incase it isn't :biggrin:

 

First of all the the on spawn message interval seems to have no effect with all 3 lines I have put in appearing at once.

 

Also the on spawn message is now appearing in the procon chat window which is reducing the amount of info I have when investigating various admin related issues on the server.

 

Is this supposed to happen or have I set something wrong?

 

Ta mate.

 

Loving your work mate. These tools make an admins life so much easier.

You are the equivelant of ferrero roche mate, you are spoiling us :biggrin:

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Originally Posted by HelloKitty*:

 

...

First of all the the on spawn message interval seems to have no effect with all 3 lines I have put in appearing at once.

Try a shorter message (

Also the on spawn message is now appearing in the procon chat window which is reducing the amount of info I have when investigating various admin related issues on the server.

Is this supposed to happen or have I set something wrong?

You will have to live with that.

...

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi.

 

First of all the the on spawn message interval seems to have no effect with all 3 lines I have put in appearing at once.

The interval does not mean a time between sending of different lines of the spawn message.

The text field is intended to be one line. If you enter more than one line you will see that all

text is displayed in one line if you have finished what you entered. If your text is overall

longer than 100 chars you should receive a pop-up which warns you about that.

 

Remember this on spawn message is intended to spam a short message to a respawning

player. Some use it for their clan page url or to remember about a ts server.

 

The interval defines to show the message to show after how many respawns as it can get

annoying to be spamed on every respawn. So you can set it to only be displayed on the second,

third or what ever respawn.

 

Also the on spawn message is now appearing in the procon chat window which is reducing the amount of info I have when investigating various admin related issues on the server.

 

Is this supposed to happen or have I set something wrong?

No, this is intended.

I dislike it if plugins chat with a player but you can not review what is send as say or yell to the player.

Therefor this one updates the chat tab.

 

Hmm... to do an update to have a switch to enable / disable that shouldn't be hard.

:ohmy:

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi

 

Hi.

Hmm... to do an update to have a switch to enable / disable that shouldn't be hard.

Done.

I've updated the first post and the package.

It may take some time to update the package page in Procon, but you should

see the update there soon.

 

Greets

Phil.

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Originally Posted by ToM666*:

 

Hi

 

Hi.

Hmm... to do an update to have a switch to enable / disable that shouldn't be hard.

Done.

I've updated the first post and the package.

It may take some time to update the package page in Procon' date=' but you should

see the update there soon.

 

Greets

Phil.[/quote:mie73oka']

 

Thanks Phil, that's mint mate 8-)

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Originally Posted by prt3*:

 

When players are kicked because a VIP joins the server there will come a notification like this "PC_DIALOG_TEXT_VIPKICK".

I also have started to see this weird message, but only after the latest server updates to R30.
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Originally Posted by Phil_K*:

 

Hi.

 

I also have started to see this weird message, but only after the latest server updates to R30.

Nope, i had this reported also with R-28 but only in rare cases.

I have no clue how sends this, the client or the server, but i tend to say the server.

 

Greets

Phil.

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