{REQ} TF2 Spectator kicker after x amount of mins?

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lo,

Would someone make an AFK Spectator kicker?

If its not to cpu intensive, could an afker move to spectate be an option as well?

As we often have people afk in spawn that just sit there all map. It would be good to have them move to spec after 3 mins say. Then the spectator kicker can move in after 5 mins and kick them.

This would be super useful

dubbeh · 10-19-2007 , 05:10 Re: {REQ} TF2 Spectator kicker after x amount of mins?

I'll have this added to the AFK manager soon - hopefully over the next couple of days

dr1ft3r · 10-21-2007 , 16:47 Re: {REQ} TF2 Spectator kicker after x amount of mins?

there are cvars in tf2 to deal with people that are afk

mp_idledealmethod =
- Deals with Idle Players. 1 = Sends them into Spectator mode then kicks them if they're still idle, 2 = Kicks them out of the game;

mp_idlemaxtime =
- Maximum time a player is allowed to be idle (in minutes)

ratty · *Last edited by ratty; 10-21-2007 at 18:40.*

I did a little testing to see exactly how the built-in TF2 idle kicking works, and here is what I found.

First lets define idle. That means not moving.. If you move the mouse and look around, that does not count, you have to actually change your location.

If you JOIN spectators, you wont get idle kicked ever.

With mp_idledealmethod set to 1, instead of kicking them, it moves them into spectator. Once in spectator, if you don't join a team in mp_idlemaxtime, you will be kicked. Even if you move the mouse around, or change players you are watching. If you are forced into spectator, you will be kicked if you don't join a team.
So if you do idledealmethod 1, whatever you set mp_idlemaxtime to, figure that double that time is how long it will take someone who is AFK to be completely kicked out. And if you want to not get kicked, just join spectators.

And of course a real plugin can do a much better job of this.

dr1ft3r · 10-22-2007 , 13:22 Re: {REQ} TF2 Spectator kicker after x amount of mins?

I wouldn't say a much better job, the only difference a plugin can do is deal with people who join spectators.

If you are moved to spec by the mp_ method then why would want to sit and watch other players? surely you would join spec to do that, and as you say not be removed.

Also most plugins will deal with afk as no movement at all, so idle is actually a better way of dealing with "afk" as it means people can't sit and do nothing except move their mouse once every 3 mins.

Each to there own, but this works fine on my server as is.