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Description:

This plugin replaces the black screen kick vote by a translucent menu. It is a fork of the discontinued plugin “[L4D1 & L4D2] Votekick – no black screen (Coop & Versus)” from Dragokas.

My motivation of the fork is mainly:
- fix bugs
- continue support

Features:

- translucent menu
- full versus support
- kick for 1 hour (adjustable) even if the player used a trick to quit from the game before the vote ends.
- prevents votekick exploit
- un-kick (from the same menu)
- vote announcement
- no black screen
- flexible configuration of access rights
- kick reasons (with translation):

* See the file: data/votekick_reason.txt

- all actions are logged (who kick, whom kick, who tried to kick, ip/country/nick/SteamId, reason ...)
- ability to black list specific users (by SteamId or nickname) to prevent them from starting the vote:

* See the file: data/votekick_vote_block.txt

- auto-add to deny list the users from the "newnames.txt" file in Auto-Name-Changer by Exle plugin.
- ability to exclude a list of users you may not want to connect for a given time period. Excluded users receive the message "STEAM UserID is banned."

* See the file: data/votekick_ban.txt (if not present, create it by setting cvar sm_votekick_use_banfile set to "1" in cfg-file)

Logfile location:

- logs/vote_kick.log

Data file:

- data/votekick_vote_block.txt - list of users you may want to exclude from the right to start voting

* (SteamId and nicknames with simple mask * are allowed).

- data/votekick_reason.txt - list of kick reasons (optionally, must be supplied with appropriate translation in file: l4d_votekick.phrases.txt).

Guide to add more kick reasons:

- Add new line in data/votekick_reason.txt
- Edit translation file to add new entry similar to "Rusher" in file: translations/l4d_votekick.phrases.txt

- data/votekick_ban.txt - list of users you may want to exclude from connecting. Optional. Only read/created (if not present) if cvar sm_votekick_use_banfile = 1 (default: 0).

* Format: SteamId, Start (Unixtime), Minutes, Self note

- data/votekick_ban_lastwrite.txt - timestamp file. Optional. Only read/created (if not present) if cvar sm_votekick_use_banfile = 1 (default: 0)

Permissions:

- By default, voting can be started by anyone (adjustable): you could also restrict voting access, for example to players with the "k" (StartVote) flag ( set cvar sm_votekick_accessflag to "k").
- by default, vote can be vetoed or force passed by player with "d" (Ban) flag (adjustable).
- ability to set a minimum time to allow voting to be repeated.
- ability to set a minimum number of players to hold a vote.
- admins cannot target root admin.
- non-admins cannot target admins.
- users with lower immunity level cannot target users with higher level.
- everybody able to start vote kick against users from deny list (regardless of sm_votekick_accessflag ConVar settings).
- (in versus) users can't target users from opposite team

Settings (ConVars):

- sm_votekick_delay - def.: 60 - Minimum delay (in sec.) allowed between votes
- sm_votekick_timeout - def.: 10 - How long (in sec.) does the vote last
- sm_votekick_announcedelay - def.: 2.0 - Delay (in sec.) between announce and vote menu appearing
- sm_votekick_kicktime - def.: 3600 - How long player will be kicked (in sec.)
- sm_votekick_minplayers - def.: 1 - Minimum players present in game to allow starting vote for kick
- sm_votekick_minplayers_versus - def.: 1 - Minimum players present in team to allow starting vote for kick (Versus gamemode)
- sm_votekick_accessflag - def.: "" (StartVote) - Admin flag required to start the vote (leave empty to allow for everybody)
- sm_votekick_vetoflag - def.: "d" (Ban) - Admin flag required to veto/votepass the vote
- sm_votekick_log - def.: 1 - Use logging? (1 - Yes / 0 - No)
- sm_votekick_show_kick_reason - def: 0 - Allow to select kick reason? (1 - Yes / 0 - No)
- sm_votekick_show_bots - def.: 0 - Allow to vote kick survivor bots? (1 - Yes / 0 - No)
- sm_votekick_show_self - def.: 0 - Allow to self-kick (for debug purposes)? (1 - Yes / 0 - No)
- sm_votekick_show_vote_details - def.: 1 - Allow to show number of yesVotes - noVotes? (1 - Yes / 0 - No)
- sm_votekick_use_banfile - def.: 0 - Use file based temporary bans? (1 - Yes / 0 - No)
- sm_votekick_use_banfile_log - def.: 1 - File based temporary bans: log attempts to join the server? (1 - Yes / 0 - No)

Commands:

- sm_vk - Show menu to select player to vote for kick/unkick
- sm_votekick - same as sm_vk
- sm_veto - Allow admin to veto current vote
- sm_votepass - Allow admin to bypass current vote
- sm_pass - same as sm_votepass

Requirements:

- GeoIP extension (included in SourceMod).
- SourceMod v.1.10+

Languages:

- English
- Russian

Installation:

- copy smx file to addons/sourcemod/plugins/
- copy l4d_votekick.phrases.txt file to addons/sourcemod/translations/
- copy data/ .txt files to addons/sourcemod/data/
- banfile: to enable, set sm_votekick_use_banfile = 1 in the cfg file.

* file data/votekick_ban.txt will be created with next map start/change, if it not already exists. There You can add a player's STEAM Id to exclude them from connection
* file data/votekick_ban_lastwrite.txt will be created with next map start/change, if it not already exists.

Credits:

- D1maxa - for the initial plugin
- Dragokas – much thanks for his outstanding and inspiring work on which this plugin is based

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Changelog:

Fork by alliedfront: Plugin is forked from version 3.5 of the plugin "[L4D] Votekick (no black screen)" by Dragokas. 4.0 (21-09-2024) Added simple temporary bans by a file-based solution (new feature) - Ban entries will be deleted from both memory and file after they are expired - Bans are active on the instances of the l4d_votekick plugin - Uses the proven access / deny - functionality of the plugin - Ban entry format: Steam-ID,Start of ban (provide Unix timestanp or leave empty for now->Unix Timestamp),Duration in minutes,Self note (e.g. nickname of banned player) * see autogenerated file data/votekick_ban.txt for format details * autogenerated file data/votekick_ban_lastwrite.txt - This feature can be completly switched on/off (default: off) in cfg-file - The logging of attempts of file - banned players to join a server can be switched on/off in the cfg file (default: on) - maximum ban time: 60 days Bugfixes: - Fixed a bug, where the wrong team could unkick a kicked player (Versus) - Fixed a bug, where, in the case of g_bCvarShowKickReason == true, it would not properly check whether a vote was already running before starting another vote. - Fixed a bug, where a player could wrongly be a target by a kickvote, although he already had switched team (Versus) - Fixed a bug, when the global variable g_iVoteIssuerTeam contained the wrong team id of a previous vote, resulting of messages to the wrong team (Versus) - Fixed a bug, where additional votes could be started by other players within g_hCvarAnnounceDelay (default 2 seconds) after initial vote - Fixed a bug, when sReasonEng was not initialized before its use Exploits: - Fixed an exploit, where a kicked player could connect by offline authentification (no proper Steam ID retrieved) Minor changes: - If a player opened a KickReason menu and has chosen not to start voting (cancel), his 60 second penalty will be reduced, allowing him to reopen the VK menu after 2 seconds (2 seconds for anti-spam). Compatibility: - Works also with version 3.5 .txt-files in data/ and translations/ directories

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Changelog:

4.1 (10-10-2024) - Temporary bans via banfile: Removed restriction on ban period (previously 60 days) - Temporary bans via banfile: duration can now also be defined by inserting a character string: e.g. “3d” for 3 days, “1d 12h” for 1 day 12 hours, “1h 90m” for 1 hour 90 minutes (previously only [Minutes]). * See the file votekick_ban.txt for details - CVARS defaults changed. Reason: Easier access to voting * sm_votekick_accessflag defaults to "" (previously "k") * sm_votekick_minplayers defaults to "1" (previously "4") * sm_votekick_minplayers_versus defaults to "1" (previously "4")

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Changelog:

4.2 (19-10-2024) - Code optimizations

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Changelog:

4.3 (29-Oct-2024) - Fixed a bug where in some cases a game server restart was required to create data/votekick_ban.txt - Updated description