[BrutalGoerge]

gScramble, a Comprehensive Team Manager for TF2

For recent changes, look at:
http://projects.mygsn.net/projects/show/simple-plugins

Requirements
- to compile: autoupdater by MikeJS, not required to run
- to enforce reconnect team blocking: clientprefs, not required to run

Thanks

• Antithasys for all the help every time i bugged him when I didn't know what i was doing, letting me use his project site, and approving the plugin!
• MikeJS for help with team-score manipulation and Auto-Update
• Everyone for making suggestions and finding my dumb bugs so this could be such a useful script

Features 2.4.52 (most features have a corresponding ConVar in cfg/sourcemod/plugin.gscramble.cfg)

Scramble-Modes

• 1: Sort randomly, 2: by score, or 3: by score^2/time(in seconds)
• Make admins, medics, or engineers immune from scramble
• Respawn everyone after scramble depending on time and setting
• Restart round after scramble depending on time and setting
• Charge medic ubercannon if scramble occurs during setup
• Reset setup timer if scramble occurs during setup

Auto-Scramble

• scramble when one team is over-powered
• can trigger a vote instead of scrambling

Auto-Balance

• Balance valid players (admin, engineers, top scoring players, players helping their team (cp captures, flag touching, sentry destroying), and medics all can be made immune)
• Force balance after teams have been imbalanced too long

Force-Balance

• Admin can execute force-balance command
• Force-balance can happen between rounds
• Force-balance can happen if teams become too imbalanced

General

• Admin menu integration
• Force clients to accept their new team by blocking join team commands (detect reconnecting with clientprefs)
• RTV-style votescramble starting
• Admin commands for starting a scramble vote
• Allow clients to choose what team they'd prefer to be on (overrides auto-balance)
• Native bool gs_isBlocked(client) to see if the plugin is blocking someone from swapping teams
• (Experimental) Ask clients recently swapped if they want to rejoin their old team when someone reconnects and gets forced onto a team
• If enabled, block clients from changing to spectate if it will cause an imbalance
• If enabled, allow clients to choose a buddy to protect themselves from auto-balance and scramble.
• If enabled, block public voting when admins are present.

Commands

sm_cancel         admin        Cancels any active scramble.  Blocks auto-scramble check if run during bonusround
sm_forcebalance   admin        Forces a team balance if an imbalance exists.
sm_preference     console      Allows clients to choose what team they prefer
sm_resetvotes     admin        Resets all public votes.
sm_scramble       admin        sm_scramble <delay> <respawn> <mode>
sm_scrambleround  admin        Scrambles at the beginning of the next round
sm_scramblevote   admin        Start a vote. sm_scramblevote <now/end>
sm_addbuddy        console     add a buddy

Changes/Additions:
2.4.53
- fix auto-balance message coming up when auto-balance is disabled
- fix center text error message being logged
- updated French translation

2.4.52
- fix force-balance (again) D:<

2.4.51
- fix small bug with sequential auto-scramble checking
- updated ES translation
- fix typo in EN translation

2.4.5
- add convar to disable public voting when an admin is present.
- add simple buddy system that protects you and your buddy from auto-balance. disabled by default
- add feature to block people from changing to spectator if it will cause an imbalance. disabled by default. obeys the admin team-swap block convar and flags.
- re-do the scramble function to better deal with people immune from scramble.
- added a bunch to the translation. be sure to update that, or you will get errors.

2.4.02
- amended version since i believe any further changes will be minor
- add more options to the scramble now menu
- removed the restartround option for scramble now, since the command mp_restartround is bugged

2.4.2
- fix instances where force-balance timer wasn't getting started
- added more events to the teamwork protection section:
=> medic death *add when charged medic is killed
=> sapper placed *add when spy places sapper
=> charge deployed *add for medic and target when medic deploys uber

2.4.1
- fix it printing messages about balance when auto-balance is disabled

2.4
- !fix death message blocking for when an admin starts a long scramble delay
- !minor fixes and tweaks with autobalance checking:
=> changed way priority is gotten, should improve selection during force balance
- +convar to block auto-scramble when a scramble has happened recently
- be sure to update translation files and note the new convars in the cfg

Donations
This has taken a lot of time and effort, and I'd be proud to accept any forms of appreciation.
If your method is monetary, then click here.

Translations THANKS!!
French Translation: Cadav0r -- complete
Danish Translation: OziOn -- NOT complete
Russian Translation: krolus -- NOT complete
Spanish Translation: jack_wade -- complete
Hungarian Translation: KhyrOO-- NOT complete
German Translation: Guggie-- NOT complete
Italian Translation: Dagon-- NOT complete

INSTALL
unzip to tf dir
the plugin will auto-make the cfg if it's not there, but the one included is cleaner and organized better.

[MikeJS]

Config files can be made by adding AutoExecConfig to OnPluginStart()

Line 257: PrintToChatAll("Scrambling has been cancelled");

Very cool idea though

[BrutalGoerge]

Originally Posted by MikeJS Config files can be made by adding AutoExecConfig to OnPluginStart() Line 257: PrintToChatAll("Scrambling has been cancelled"); Very cool idea though

1 typo? new record for me. ;p

i got the idea to do a config as i submitted the thread

[Inflikted]

ive seen on some custom tf2 servers, like a team wins 3 rounds in a row, and does a teamswitch based on that. i no some people say its not possible, but obviously some have figured it out hehe anyway to have that put in? but i do like this script its nice

[BrutalGoerge]

I can make it scramble every X rounds, but a team winning so many in a row gets weird.

like some maps, like dustbowl, you may not want a scramble if a team wins all 3 stages.

It would only really work on single-stage maps.


And

1.2 out,
--fixed some bugs with the voting
--added new cvar to control how many people must be connected before steamroll scrambles happen

[Inflikted]

ya, i no
but like one of the servers i run is a 24/7 1 map server, thats ctf. so something like that would work pretty well for it i think.

[DontWannaName]

He can do it, he is just selfish. Give the guy some karma and he will add whatever you need and more... ;)

[BrutalGoerge]

1.4 updated, adds new cvars, logging, and better checks for the auto-scramble triggering.

[jasonfrog]

Would love this if it had the option of having a vote menu ;P

[BrutalGoerge]

D:<

You have no idea how much I loathe vote menus. I wish all the stock vote plugins had options for them to all be text based

I might add one if I'm bored.

1.6 uploaded, added a bunch of stuff. Lot of it though is stuff I thought I needed for my servers... but it might be useful to other people.