[Dead Tom]

Good day everyone,

To just get to the point it was put forth on our servers that not enough admins and mods could be found when needed. We have tried to have a on call system but because a few have not jumped on board with the idea it has failed. We have decided to make a make the new system based on a in game plugin on all servers that would automatically email and or steam message a admin or mod. If anyone could help code or offer suggestions please post.
Thank you

[HiJacker]

It can be done like this , maybe harder to make SM plugin, but bash part will be easy.

1.) Plugin will hook on command sm_call , so if player type !call
2.) Plugin will write into MySQL table with info : player, time, ip, serverID ... inside mysql, there will be Nickname of server in different/or same table
3.)
Mysql query in human-mode ! (it wont work, its just to show example)

#!/bin/bash
while :
do
     sleep 5s
     for entry in $(/usr/bin/mysql <some params> -e 'SELECT table.servernick (+username) FROM table WHERE unread = 1')
     do
          php /var/www/icq/send.php "On server $server is reported user $player" $icqnumber
           /usr/bin/mysql <some params> -e 'SET unread "1" WHERE $time'
     done

done

In my case, /var/www/icq/send.php has got 2 args , 1. is message and second is icq number.

Steam msg is impossible.

[edge]

i like where this is going, i would use it as well.

my sugjestion is you should be able to have a feature like this

!call and it brings up a player menu, should be simple, you pick the player who is doing something douchy, and then it lets you pick from a list of complaints, hacking, radio spam, stuff like that. then it sends it to an admin.

[HiJacker]

If i have more time, its no problem for me, but you have to have linux in case to run it, including root access OR having somebody to listen on your mysql and sending messages.

Little inspiration, I can use some code of this plugin for menu etc, but with that difference it will put info into mysql, and bash will retrieve it and send ICQ messages.

[bouncer]

Here is a good suggestion(s) from my point of view after reading that...

Player types !admin:reasonhere

Admin gets notification on their steam chat "Server IPORT : Player requesting admin assitance immediately!" Would it be possible to send them this via steam chat?

If not Here is an alternative thing- Create html page, and displays in sort of like chat form and it's updated live so you dont have to refresh page, and users can navigate to yoursite.com/admining or something like that and view what the chatbox is displaying, you cannot post anything in chatbox yourself-although that would be a neat option too so admins can respond if they took care of situation.

and let the owners choose what flag to set the notification to.

[HiJacker]

It can be one with jQuery , so refreshing will be automatical, but it wont be best option for admins to always watch it, to check if somebody need heelp

There's no way of contacting via steam

[bouncer]

Alright well try to come up with the best features you can if you could please.

[Ghost Killer]

It would be nice if it sends through windows live messenger (a list of contacts on there).

[Pank]

It would be great if we had a menu with various types of reporting (wh, radio spam, map failure, etc.) and when the message is triggered it starts recording a demo of the supspected player so admins can take action even if later.

So to me, the process should be:

Player types !admin in chat (or !report, or whatever)
Menu pops up with different items to report on
If applicable, menu pops up reuqesting player to report on
Plugin starts recording a demo (if needed) of let's say 2 min. This demo should be stored somewher (server, an ftp server,...)
Al info is recorded on a database to be viewed later. Info would include all the above plus the info on the player who triggered it (so in case of abuse, action can be taken).

That would make an awesome plugin.

[bouncer]

So is anyone up to this?