Vote Ban

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Originally Posted by ixnorp*:

 

is there anyway for me to stop the votekick msg to going into a loop? It keeps saying vote progress - .... X votes to kick player. Other than restarting server. I tried enable/disable the plugin, but it is still the same

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Originally Posted by Slayer*:

 

is there anyway for me to stop the votekick msg to going into a loop? It keeps saying vote progress - .... X votes to kick player. Other than restarting server. I tried enable/disable the plugin, but it is still the same

I guess your using 1.5.0, I had that same problem in BF3 and I'm pretty sure I fixed it by deleting the plugin from the layer and re uploading it, try that and I'll try and think how I fixed mine in the meantime, damn memory is going.

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Originally Posted by guapoloko*:

 

I'm still co BF4 problems. I set to temporary banishment but permanently bans.

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Originally Posted by ixnorp*:

 

I guess your using 1.5.0, I had that same problem in BF3 and I'm pretty sure I fixed it by deleting the plugin from the layer and re uploading it, try that and I'll try and think how I fixed mine in the meantime, damn memory is going.

Alright thanks! I'll try that later

 

 

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Originally Posted by Slayer*:

 

I'm still co BF4 problems. I set to temporary banishment but permanently bans.

I don't even know if it works in BF4 I haven't done any real testing properly but your problem is the same as I had with our BF3 servers I wrote about in this post.*

 

@ixnorp

Yeah I'm still trying to think how I fixed mine.

The more I think about it I'm pretty sure that's how I did fix mine, sort of like a kick in the guts to get it working again so to speak.

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Originally Posted by PapaCharlie9*:

 

Okay, what exactly is not working in this plugin for BF4? I might have time to fix this next week, but only if there is a clear description of exactly what is not working. I'm not looking for a long description, that probably won't help. A short, accurate description of exactly what doesn't work, describing how it is expected to work and how it actually works, would be helpful.

 

I'm not familiar with this code and I don't intend to rewrite it from scratch. I'm hoping the problems only require some minor fixup, which is all I'm willing to do.

 

From what I gather in the thread, the parts that are supposed to be controlled by the Vote Ban Duration (minutes) and Vote Ban Progress Delay Interval (seconds) settings aren't working. Similarly for the Vote Kick ... settings. The in-progress and status messages won't stop, they keep going even after the vote has ended or timed out. Is that accurate?

 

Also, disabling the plugin doesn't seem to stop the messages. That's easy to fix.

 

Anything else? Only major stuff, don't bother with minor stuff, I won't fix minor stuff.

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Originally Posted by guapoloko*:

 

Papa9, what bothers me more is the temporary ban that instead of banning permanently bans the given time. As the MESSAGES did not see it occur.

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Originally Posted by PapaCharlie9*:

 

Papa9, what bothers me more is the temporary ban that instead of banning permanently bans the given time. As the MESSAGES did not see it occur.

I don't understand.

 

Are you saying you set Ban Duration to Permanent, but instead you got a temporary ban?

 

Or are you saying you set Ban Duration to Temporary, but instead you got a permanent ban?

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Originally Posted by guapoloko*:

 

Or are you saying you set Ban Duration to Temporary, but instead you got a permanent ban?

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Originally Posted by Slayer*:

 

Okay, what exactly is not working in this plugin for BF4? I might have time to fix this next week, but only if there is a clear description of exactly what is not working. I'm not looking for a long description, that probably won't help. A short, accurate description of exactly what doesn't work, describing how it is expected to work and how it actually works, would be helpful.

Obviously doing the same for BF4 as well reading posts.

 

trying to figure out why it has stopped working correctly on BF3, was it because of the latest Procon update to version 1.4.1.6

 

Running latest version of this plugin 1.5.0 and been doing some tests and got the players in server to ban me, the problem with that is it was meant to be a 60 minute temp ban, though when the vote went through it banned me permanently instead of the temp 60 minutes.

Yes temp ban becomes perm.

 

 

Other problem I found with it was that it wont kick the player from server when voteban is successful if you have it set to the EA-GUID, yet it works using the PB-GUID.

Not sure if this above is working properly, untested since posting originally, ignore if you want it may have been a glitch at the time of me testing.

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Originally Posted by PapaCharlie9*:

 

Here's what I got so far:

 

* Spamming of messages (easy)

 

* Not able to stop spamming even by disabling plugin (that's like 3 additional lines of code to fix, easy)

 

* Team/Squad chat needs to be handled like Global chat (easy)

 

* Temp ban becomes permanent (no idea, surprised this doesn't work)

 

* EA vs PB GUID issues for kick for ban? (Maybe)

 

 

What else?

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Originally Posted by EBassie*:

 

What else?

When a player leaves (or is being kicked /banned by an admin) while there is a votekick active against this player, the vote progress will go on the time-limit has been reached.

 

Would be nice to stop / reset the votekick when the player is not in the server anymore.

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Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

When a player leaves (or is being kicked /banned by an admin) while there is a votekick active against this player, the vote progress will go on the time-limit has been reached.

 

Would be nice to stop / reset the votekick when the player is not in the server anymore.

Not good to stop it on players just leaving the server for voteban...it means they can just leave to cancel the vote then rejoin. I can understand doing it on kicks or bans by admin, but not for other reasons.

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Originally Posted by IAF-SDS*:

 

When a player leaves (or is being kicked /banned by an admin) while there is a votekick active against this player, the vote progress will go on the time-limit has been reached.

 

Would be nice to stop / reset the votekick when the player is not in the server anymore.

I would not want this change to automatically cancel the vote if the player leaves on his own, unless it was an optional setting. Many times I have seen them intentionally leave the server in order to avoid getting vote banned. Having said that, it would be an improvement if only an admin's ban or kick automatically cancels the vote ban/kick against the same player, with a short yell to the players to let them know. There's an existing option for the admin to manually @cancelvote but it doesn't work. Perhaps you could modify the admin canceling vote section to include an alternate message to be sent automatically when the admin bans or kicks such player:

 

---------- %1% = admin canceling vote %2% = vote type (kick or ban) %3% = voted player ----------

----- WARNING! No relevant player for 'player' directive -----

yell "%1% has CANCELED the vote to %2% %3%!" all

yell "The vote to %2% %3% was CANCELED because the Admin removed him!" all

 

Players have learned that if someone runs, all of their votes won't be a waste of time and they will complete the voteban, whether the cheater is in the server or not. This is important to maintain, because the whole vote ban system will be undermined if cheaters simply leave the server to reset and avoid the vote ban.

 

 

> * Team/Squad chat needs to be handled like Global chat (easy)

 

I wasn't sure this was a good change, because the person who starts the vote could remain anonymous when they type it in squad/team chat. But then I realized that if you have a second step before the @yes votes can start (for example, with Start Vote Ban Number set to 2), then this will trigger a new message that will identify who started the voteban. So this change is good, and it should generate more vote participation now that they can type it in any chat.

 

 

> What else?

 

I have seen confusion during a vote ban when either the player being vote banned or one of his buddies starts another vote ban at the same time. This has been a successful tactic to confuse everyone as to whom they are voting to ban. If not too much trouble, it would be another improvement if a say message was sent in open chat whenever anyone tried to start a new voteban while one was going on. Perhaps a message like this:

 

"YOU CANNOT START ANOTHER VOTE WHILE THE VOTE TO %2% %3% IS STILL ACTIVE!"

 

 

Aside from the other issues and suggestions listed above, Vote Ban does not work for me at all in BF4. It works fine for me in BF3, however. Nothing at all happens when they type @voteban player name reason nor when they type just @voteban. The vote ban chat trigger works in BF4, but not the vote ban system itslelf. I forwarded logs and my Message List.

 

Thanks Papa for helping us, once again!

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Originally Posted by PapaCharlie9*:

 

How about this: if it's a !votekick and they leave, cancel the vote. A !voteban will keep going.

 

And above all else, only if this is easy to code.

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Originally Posted by EBassie*:

 

How about this: if it's a !votekick and they leave, cancel the vote. A !voteban will keep going.

I like that as we only use votekick

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Originally Posted by Co3n*:

 

* Temp ban becomes permanent (no idea, surprised this doesn't work)

Try tempban, this is used in proconrulz also.

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Originally Posted by IAF-SDS*:

 

How about this: if it's a !votekick and they leave, cancel the vote. A !voteban will keep going.

 

And above all else, only if this is easy to code.

I like that idea too.

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Originally Posted by guapoloko*:

 

With this configuration banning this:

 

http://www.suatela.net/XD322MY

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Originally Posted by PapaCharlie9*:

 

Okay, I'm starting to work on this today. I'll need volunteers to install test versions to try out before I release the updates. PM me an email address and I'll send you a ZIP file.

 

Track issues here:

 

https://github.com/PapaCharlie9/voteban/issues

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Originally Posted by IAF-SDS*:

 

I'll help you test it Papa.

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Originally Posted by kcuestag*:

 

I wouldn't mind helping to test it, let me know.

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Originally Posted by PapaCharlie9*:

 

Thanks to long hours of exhaustive testing by SDS and the IAF crew, the fixed and updated version of Vote Ban is now available. Please see post #1 for details, particularly the change log for the new version 2.0.1.0.

 

myrcon.net/...vote-ban#entry22450

 

Please read all of the colored/highlighted notes and warnings at the top of post #1. They will save you time and rage if you pay attention.

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Originally Posted by kcuestag*:

 

BF4 compatible? Or BF3 fixes?

 

Many thanks!

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Originally Posted by PapaCharlie9*:

 

BF4 compatible? Or BF3 fixes?

 

Many thanks!

Both.

 

The full story is that there was nothing BF3 specific about the code to begin with, aside from some messages. It was already BF4-ready. However, there were bugs that impacted both BF3 and BF4. Those have been fixed.

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Originally Posted by IAF-SDS*:

 

Thanks so much Papa for all of your hard work to help fix Vote Ban.

 

It's nice to have it working properly again.

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Originally Posted by kcuestag*:

 

Both.

 

The full story is that there was nothing BF3 specific about the code to begin with, aside from some messages. It was already BF4-ready. However, there were bugs that impacted both BF3 and BF4. Those have been fixed.

Awesome, thank you!

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Originally Posted by Slayer*:

 

Thanks so much Papa for all of your hard work to help fix Vote Ban.

 

It's nice to have it working properly again.

+1 What he said.

 

Now to throw it up on all the servers and test/watch, after reading post #1 of course.

 

Thank you.

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Originally Posted by ixnorp*:

 

@PapaCharlie9, The votekick and voteban threshold msg isn't working properly.

 

I type !votekick XXXX

It didn't show me the votekick is currently disabled! ....

 

But when i type !voteban XXX

It showed me votekick is currently disabled! ... at least 20 players for votekick to be enabled.

 

I set voteban threshold to 20, and votekick threshold to 10.

 

 

new:

 

The voting msg went haywire, i type !votekick XXX, it shows me XXX has put a !yes request etc etc. %4% something is needed!

 

Attached Files:

• bug.png

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Originally Posted by IAF-SDS*:

 

@PapaCharlie9, The votekick and voteban threshold msg isn't working properly.

 

I type !votekick XXXX

It didn't show me the votekick is currently disabled! ....

 

But when i type !voteban XXX

It showed me votekick is currently disabled! ... at least 20 players for votekick to be enabled.

 

I set voteban threshold to 20, and votekick threshold to 10.

 

 

new:

 

The voting msg went haywire, i type !votekick XXX, it shows me XXX has put a !yes request etc etc. %4% something is needed!

The haywire messages are happening because your MESSAGE LIST is corrupted. Read the first post of this thread and look for Papa's red warning as well as his other notes.

 

Reset your Message List by going to the In-Game Messages section and choose: Reset Messages? Do It!

 

You would be surprised how many things go haywire or break when the Message List is corrupted. It drove me crazy and took me many hours of testing to isolate what was happening. In fact, if you change your Message List and you don't expand the ProCon popup window for the Message List all the way horizontally, it sometimes fails to wrap the words and instead creates a new line, which corrupts your message list and breaks Vote Ban.

 

You have to be very careful when you change the Message List in any way.

 

I would not be surprised that the corrupted message list is also interfering with showing you that Vote Kick is currently disabled. You'll have to try that again to be sure, after you RESET your Message List.