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America's Army => General Chat => Topic started by: pit-23 on Monday, March 05, 2012, 17:36:28 PM
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I tried to join our server for the first time as admin, and I've been banned by assist for 24 hours.
It's probably because I put password in aa25.ini (adminpassword=) without putting my nick in it (playeradmin=).
I would appreciate quick help. I didn't need admin login up to now, but some mofos have been ruining our game now, by teamkilling everybody for 15 minutes straight.
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I'm assuming you have access to the server. Did you delete banlist.txt?
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Great, thanks, I did not know those bans are handled locally, I thought they are kept by master server.
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Hmm, but it seems that restarting server is required (just changing the file does not work), and that's what I want to avoid (server full of people now).
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Shoot, I think you were supposed to remove the bans from the text file instead of deleting the actual thing. My fault, I never run servers and I forget this kind of information.
BTW all bans are handled locally. If it says your banned, it's just from that server. Until me or someone on the team looks at the elevated PB alerts log that gets streamed to the master server, we then decide who gets banned from the auth system.
If someone is giving you some trouble on the server, just designate someone as admin (player admin, spectator admin, or whatever) and have them go kick the guy out. You can remove their admin privileges afterwards.
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Shoot, I think you were supposed to remove the bans from the text file instead of deleting the actual thing. My fault, I never run servers and I forget this kind of information.
I did both, first removed the line, then removed whole file.
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I did some searching, you do have to restart the server if your editing the file, there's no other way around it. Le sigh.
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Thx anyway for fast reply. I think I have to create another BT account now :-D.
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Oh, stupid me, the BT accout has to be linked with AA account name anyway, and i'm not sure how to create this one.
And the ban is on IP (which I have static)... So no playing for me today :-(
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Ahhhh sadface :(
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But I'm happy anyway, cause the server is full (26 slots), just like in the good old times :-D.
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when you join the server as an admin you must do it through assist and not using the in-game menu.
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That's how i did it.
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Hmmm, i might have broken something.
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And does the PB power system (assigning rights for e.g. kick to people) work in assist setup?
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No PB still works off the GUID which no longer exists.
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Some more related questions:
- Is there a way to have kick rights, but not have this [Admin] tag in the chat? That's what I liked in the pb_power functionality: the admins could do their job without "showing off" their "power".
- Does the webtool still work?
- Does the pburcon (UDP based interface to PB server) still work?
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It all still works but it uses GUIDs to remove or ban people from the game so it is useless.
The spectator admin function is hidden and on one in the server knows your there, I will fix it soon.
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One feature would be useful then: option to disable this '[Admin]' tag in chat for player admins. It makes the impression of putting those players above others, and I don't like it. I can't code it myself, since it involves auth.u (I'm not sure, I just quickly guess).
EDIT: hmm, I just thought that maybe those chat tags '[Admin/Enemy/Army]' are put by the game itself, so you don't have easy way to change it from auth.u.
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It makes the impression of putting those players above others
This is a fantastic part of AA :)
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:-D
Ok, but thats cosmetic feature. Much more important would be this: option for giving a player right to kick, without all the admin options. That was really useful feature of pb_power. You could give people rights so that they help you keep order in server, but at the same time you don't risk they mess it up.
What do you think Jon? Could you do it, could I help in some way?
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It would be great to have users be able to votekick and vote for map change. I think I have a map voter mod around here somewhere...
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There doesn't seem to be an easy way of doing that, Votekick is the best option.
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So there is no other way to kick other than being admin/PA and using admin commands?
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So there is no other way to kick other than being admin/PA and using admin commands?
Punkbuster power points, unless you already meant about them above. Basically you're given a defined amount of PB points that let you performed well defined actions, as kicking a player, banning, etc. . And obviously the player having such points doesn't need to be an admin.
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In particular, is there some way to kick from the external script? In 2.8 I wrote some python scripts that monitored game chat logs, and reacted to e.g. 'kick <nick>' commands from priviledged players, by issuing pb_sv_kick through pbrcon. I'd love to be able to do something like this in 2.5.
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Punkbuster power points, unless you already meant about them above. Basically you're given a defined amount of PB points that let you performed well defined actions, as kicking a player, banning, etc. . And obviously the player having such points doesn't need to be an admin.
Hmm, so you mean that pb_power mechanism should still work? That's in contrary to what Jon said. I will try it anyway.
EDIT: ok, some points are assigned to players by default, but assigning special points is through guid, so it probably wont work.
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Yesterday, me, killa, mans, jared, and grizz from GOW were fooling around with pb_power. It's still there, but we didn't test if you could kick anyone. You can type pb_power to get the list of players and their points. And you can still use pb_kick number to add points to kick a person. But we didn't check if anyone was able to be kicked.
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The spectator admin function is hidden and on one in the server knows your there, I will fix it soon.
Please let me know when it's ready.