[muukis]

It seems it is working... at least for the public message part. I made also some modifications to other parts as well, so that the minplayer value matters. If I'm not mistaken, the original version counted the bots as well, so even if playing alone in L4D you would be kicked if your ping was high and the server sm_vbping_minplayers was set to 4.

EDIT: Removed the quick fix because msleeper requested it. If you still want it, PM me and I'll email it to you.

[Felycity]

Originally Posted by muukis I made a quick fix to this... tell me if it's working? New cvar: sm_vbping_publickickmsg (default: "Player <PLAYERNAME> has been kicked due to excessive ping")

hello, i installed fix version, and it seems working well.
good job!

[Visual77]

Originally Posted by muukis It seems it is working... at least for the public message part. I made also some modifications to other parts as well, so that the minplayer value matters. If I'm not mistaken, the original version counted the bots as well, so even if playing alone in L4D you would be kicked if your ping was high and the server sm_vbping_minplayers was set to 4. "Public kick messages" -version

Works like a charm now when the message is being displayed
Thanks.

[msleeper]

Originally Posted by muukis It seems it is working... at least for the public message part. I made also some modifications to other parts as well, so that the minplayer value matters. If I'm not mistaken, the original version counted the bots as well, so even if playing alone in L4D you would be kicked if your ping was high and the server sm_vbping_minplayers was set to 4. "Public kick messages" -version

Please take this down, I posted a beta version below. Thanks.

Here are the new cvars for the beta version. I've tested this somewhat myself but I'm not 100% posititve everything works. Here are the new cvars, and the changelog.

-- 1.2 (4/30/09)
 . Added check to ignore fake clients/bots, which was throwing an error for
   HLTV users and L4D bots.
 . Changed the initial mapchange delay from 60 seconds to 90 seconds.
 . Added 2 cvars to handle public chat display message in addition to normal
   kick message sent to player. Left 4 Dead does not display disconnect
   messages in-game to the rest of the players, so it is advised to use this
   function if you want in-game kick announcements in L4D. The cvar can
   accept a chat variable, {NAME} case-sensitive, which will replace with the
   player in question's name. They are not required.
 . Added 2 cvars to handle player warning message when they are given
   warnings by the plugin. The cvar can accept 2 chat variables, {WARN} and
   {MAXWARN} case-sensitive, which will replace with their current warnings
   and the maximum warnings respectively. Neither are required.

Delete your existing config file and a new one will be generated.

sm_vbping_showpublickick -- Enable/disable public kick message. 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled
sm_vbping_kickmsgpublic -- Public kick message. {NAME} converts to the player's name.
sm_vbping_showwarnings -- Enable/disable warning messages. 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled
sm_vbping_warningmsg -- Ping warning message. {WARN} and {MAXWARN} converts to the warning count and max warnings respectively.

[OtterNas3]

Thanks for implementing the Warning Message, works great!

Now people who gets warned will have a look why theyre Ping is so high to not get kicked!

Moo,
OtterNas3

[msleeper]

Great, glad that is working.

Anyone who can confirm the other things are working, please let me know so I can update the first post.

[msleeper]

Bump, I've gone ahead and officially released version 1.2. Updated plugin is on the first post. Let me know if you have any issues. Thanks.

[ivailosp]

line 288 need to be change form

                if ((GetUserFlagBits(i) & ADMFLAG_RESERVATION) || (GetUserFlagBits(i) & ADMFLAG_ROOT))

to

                if ((GetUserFlagBits(i) & ADMFLAG_CUSTOM1) || (GetUserFlagBits(i) & ADMFLAG_ROOT))

[Xp3r7]

Ok, Im trying to use this plugin to give a clan member from Sweden (CSS server is in USA) immunity from the ping kick and I cant figure it out.

I use admins_simple.ini and Groups.

I made a "Ping" group and have the flags as "bo" (b being generic admin and o being CUSTOM1) and immunity set at 1.

He is still getting warnings and being kicked.

Ive also tried the same settings above in admin.cfg with no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Goatnapper]

Would it be possible to add a cvar for us to define the flag to use for immunity, rather than CUSTOM1?

Reason is twofold: Some other plugins use the custom flag as well, and I don't want the overlap, and I would like people to be immune if they have, for example, the "d" (aka, ban) flag.