[Chefe]

Loyalty Point System

Welcome to my newest plugin creation.

With this plugin, you can give your players rewards for their loyalty in terms of loyalty points. All 5 minutes all players on the server get an amount of points, based on the serverload (only few players -> lot of points; medium amount -> medium points and lots of players -> least points).
If a player have enough of these points, he can buy bonuses (NOT gameplay bonuses, it's NOT a premium plugin), like set nextmap, perform a mapchange or, the top of all, get an reserved slot on your server! Players who actually not play on the server get a little subtraction on their points.
This also works across multiple servers (I had it across a Day of Defeat:Source and a Team Fortress 2 server working), the players have the same points & reserved slot access on all servers (based on you use the same database for them).


Requirements

There are some preconditions your server must conform to get the system working:

• your admin-management must work by SQL-database (and you need access to this database to create the table that is needed)
• besides the sql-admin-plugins, mapchooser (for eg. nextmap) and reservedslots have to be activated (mapchooser only for the full version, not required with lp_light)

Games Supported

Tested with:

• Team Fortress 2
• Day of Defeat: Source
• Counter Strike: Source
• HL2: Deathmatch
• SourceForts

Should work with:

• Left4Dead(2)

Installation

1. Download the lp_sql.zip, extract it and run the lp.sql in the database of your choice, but remember, the database also have to contain the table sm_admins and this database have to be the default one in /addons/configs/databases.cfg
2. Download the plugin (lp.smx), move it to your plugin folder
3. Restart your server, so that sourcemod can create the config file for the plugin (/cfg/sourcemod/plugin.lp.cfg)
4. Edit the config file after your mind
5. Restart the server again to activate your settings

All convars are described in the plugin cfg. Be sure that you have different sm_lp_serverid numbers if you run the plugin on different servers with the same database.

I hope you can enjoy it.


ToDo

• add some more cvars to make the plugin more adjustable [done]
• add translations
• add SourceBans support
• add SourceMod Webinterface support

Changelog

1.0

- initial release

1.1

- added convars for setting amount of points players receive (see plugin cfg for more infos)
- added convar sm_lp_version
- removed some not required code

1.2

- fixed connection check failed after getting no database connection

1.3

- added convars for turn on/off features like mapvote or nextmap

1.4

- added array to store clients id´s in
- fixed loop updates points for bots & non-existing clients
- fixed some performance issues

1.5

- made some changes to improve performance
- added AdmCmd to refresh settings ingame
- settings are now refreshed every 5 minutes
- made some changes on the table (see sql changelog)
- sql-errors now go to errorlog instead of serverconsole
- improved display of reserved slot time remaining
- inactive players now automatic get removed daily

1.6

- added version define (thx to Greyscale)

1.7

- fixed mapmenus are not rebuild after closing handle (error reported by skywalker2000, thanks for that)

1.8

- fixed settings are not set correctly after plugin startup (now use sm_lp_refresh to refresh the settings ingame)

1.9

- fixed some spelling mistakes
- moved to threaded querys
- various other fixes/improvements
- added light version - no requirement of mapchooser

2.0

- reserved slot players now get only the a flag instead of a and b
- fixed a spelling mistake

2.1

- added convar for immunity and flags a reserved slot player becomes


SQL-Changelog

1.1

- added fields needed for changes in plugin version 1.5 (upgrade file from 1.0 is included in the zip)

Remember to use lp or lp_light, not both!

[rediem]

Nice plugin.

[Chefe]

Originally Posted by rediem Nice plugin.

Sound nice or work nice?

[arm5ky]

Nice. any chance for a convar for maxplayers.
I only want to add time whilst there are a few players on, not when its full.

[Chefe]

Originally Posted by arm5ky Nice. any chance for a convar for maxplayers. I only want to add time whilst there are a few players on, not when its full.

Its already on my todo list to make a cvar to change the amount of points given. Now:

<= 25% of maxplayers on server: 3 points
between 25% and 50%: 2 points
> 50%: 1 point

In one of the next version I will add convars to change the point-amount that is given.

[Chefe]

Update to 1.1

[Harley]

L 04/09/2011 - 00:129: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "lp.smx":
L 04/09/2011 - 00:129: [SM] [0] Line 720, /home/groups/alliedmodders/forums/files/6/4/8/1/2/84468.attach::CheckCon()
L 04/09/2011 - 00:129: [SM] [1] Line 74, /home/groups/alliedmodders/forums/files/6/4/8/1/2/84468.attach::OnPluginStart()

[Chefe]

Originally Posted by Harley L 04/09/2011 - 00:129: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "lp.smx": L 04/09/2011 - 00:129: [SM] [0] Line 720, /home/groups/alliedmodders/forums/files/6/4/8/1/2/84468.attach::CheckCon() L 04/09/2011 - 00:129: [SM] [1] Line 74, /home/groups/alliedmodders/forums/files/6/4/8/1/2/84468.attach::OnPluginStart()

Update to 1.2

[TnTSCS]

really neat idea. I like it. Now, I'll just have to switch to MySQL instead of admin_simple

[Harley]

nice plugin thx