[MasterOfTheXP]

Given the ongoing drama over MOTDs, I figured there ought to be a way to just outright disable MOTDs, and get players right into the action.

This plugin enables that ability (for servers) by closing the first ("on-join") MOTD as soon as its sent. Unless the player is running on a toaster, they probably won't even see the MOTD at all.

I'm not sure if this (especially the below cvar) works outside of TF2. If someone could test for me, and maybe make it compatible if it's not, that'd be absolutely splendid

Comes with a cvar, sm_nomotd_forceteam, to auto-assign players to a team when the MOTD is closed. It fakes the command "jointeam %TEAM%" on them if set, and shows the "team" VGUI panel to them if not. If your game already has this stuff, you're good to go.

Not sure how this plays with HTML MOTDs, especially ones that play sound. Better safe than sorry: don't run advertisement plugins alongside this. The ad providers will hate you. Your players will hate you. Everyone will hate you. Your life will be miserable. Instead, just pick one.

This plugin does, however, allow mid-game MOTDs of any kind, such as !motd, !bp, !radio, or whatnot. It only blocks the first one that gets sent to clients, i.e. the Message of the Day.

Also, this plugin doesn't work when clients join via matchmaking in TF2. :c

[friagram]

Youcould just block/autoclose them on player spawn (make a timer) while getclientteam == 0, since the first player spawn is when thry connect.. They will also have no tram.
They wont ever be able to return to this team, and any motd popups in this window will rape team join vgui panels anyway.

[chuj]

I don't know how it is in TF2, but in CSGO or CSS you can just delete motd.txt from server and there will be no motd clientside.

[MasterOfTheXP]

Hm, that seems pretty convenient...TF2 doesn't seem to have a default motd.txt at all though, just motd_default.txt and motd_text_default.txt, which only get rid of the contents of the MOTD if deleted.

[friagram]

You'd think there would be a cvar or something for it like off/text/html

[MasterOfTheXP]

I did just come across motdfile and motdfile_text, but setting them to "" seems to just reset them, and setting them to a non-existent file also seems to have no effect.

wtb cl_disablemotd