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Development => Bugs, Feature Requests, and Feedback => Official Feature Votes => Topic started by: T3RR0R15T on October 17, 2008, 02:25:24 PM
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Just an idea, but i like it :P
A special connect for serveradmins, that they can everytime connect to there own servers. Which ignores all limitations (maxclients, password, (temp-)ban,... maybe sv_minclientbuild ??).
And a protection for this player, that nobody can kick him.
Maybe a command like "aconnect server:ip rcon".
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kind of like a reserved slot for the admins?
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Can't you just use rcon and find the password? And rcon to remove the tempban? And to change the maxclients? And why would you want to avoid sv_minclientbuild. Most people these days have higher than what is required on all the servers... Even though having to use rcon to do all of that, its a waste of time in my point of view.
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maxclients can only be changed when the server isn't running. And I believe he means you need the correct rcon password in order to use this command.
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I know it would require rcon, but its just another tiny thing to implement. There are already solutions to them, except the maxclients which I forgot about.
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I think that reserved slots that require a password would be a good thing. The server admins could have these slots open for them and/or clan members , for example the server is set to 14 players , if the server is full then I could connect to my server. Also this would allow clan members to join their clans servers, in the past we had our servers set to 14/16 players what would happen was there would be 16 ppl on one server and 2 on the other so we started expanding the numbers so the 2 left out could join.Now if we had reserved slots for clan members to join that wouldn't happen. Also it seams that people like joining a 20+ player game. I guess what I am saying is if your clan has a server and you support that server shouldn't you be able to join and use it?
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Changes to maxclients take effect after the map changes.
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You can't really just "ignore" limitations like maxclients. Reserved slots might be possible, though, but difficult, since the player ID is established after a player connects to the server. The implementation may end up with people getting booted, if the server is full up to the reserved slots.
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How about either allow an extra password for that purpose or adding another password user var.? That's sent near the beginning of the connect sequence.
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Why is maxclients + reservedslots not feasible? Maxclients would be what everyone sees, when a normal player joins the player count has to be less than maxclients, and when someone with the password joins the player count is tested against maxclients+reservedslots. That's obviously an oversimplification, but why can't it work?
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Jit was thinking about integrating with the GLS, but that's done later in the connection sequence, so players would be kicked once they got in instead of early.
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Just use rcon to change the map to something that actually requires strategy and doesn't spawn you with all of the best equipment - that should free up some slots. ;)
Well, here's a vote for what Eiii proposed, since that's the most feasible: http://dplogin.com/dplogin/featurevote/feature.php?id=10178
Unfortunately, there's a ton of stuff in the code that references the maxclients setting that would need to be rewritten. I don't think this will be a trivial feature to add.
Of course, the other option is to just use maxclients, and only allow (maxclients - reserved slots) players to connect, but I hate it when games do this.
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Eiii's option (maxclients + reserved slots) is perfect :D
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it sounds nice ;-)
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Of course, the other option is to just use maxclients, and only allow (maxclients - reserved slots) players to connect, but I hate it when games do this.
Here is a patch for it, if u want implement it.
But it has one bug. It shows the normal maxclients value instead of the new maxclients value (maxclients - reserved slots). Maybe someone else can fix it.
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Good idea.
Anyway I hate when I play match and some admin comes and observes - it's in that better situation.
In the worse situation comes vipersen with OP and changes gravity till we won't go away.