[anssik]

Block Ghosting v1.2

This plugin is made to effectively block ghosters in local area networks (ex. internet cafes).

The main concept is that when anyone from the same IP is still alive, you can only spectate the players from the same network and first person camera is also forced.
When all the players from the same IP are dead, then you can spectate anyone.

Admins with immunity flag will be ignored and can spectate normally even if playing from the same network.
This flag can be changed in the .sma in #define IMMUNITY_FLAG, which defaults to ADMIN_BAN.

This has not been fully tested, but should work. Optimization might have need to be done. Please report any bugs if found.

Changelog:
v1.2 - replaced engclient_cmd with client_cmd, also fixed if admin was on the same lan with a normal player and admin died the normal player could not spectate anyone
v1.1 - Added black screenfade when iterating through players
v1.0 - First release

[Brad]

To make this much more effective, I think you should include an option for checking just the first 3 octets of an IP.

[anssik]

Well that has a downside that at least here in Finland it's enough if you live in the same city and have the same ISP, you might have the same three octects of an IP with someone living on the other side of the city.

[joaquimandrade]

I tried to make this plugin and I couldn't make it in a pleasant way. Amxmodx doesn't exposes the functions to handle spectate functionality. I tried with this (that you also have in your plugin):

PHP Code:

engclient_cmd(id, "follownext 1") 


But it sucks because it has a delay to iterate over the players. So basically, this plugin can't be made in a clean way.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by anssik Well that has a downside that at least here in Finland it's enough if you live in the same city and have the same ISP, you might have the same three octects of an IP with someone living on the other side of the city.

That's why I said it should be an "option". In other words, a CVAR can be used to designate how many octets to check. In my LAN Notifier plugin, I basically had a CVAR that specified whether 3 or all 4 octets were to be checked. Here in the U.S., I've found it much more likely that people are in the same building rather than not, when the first 3 octets match.

[anssik]

@joaquimandrade: Yes it's not totally clean, but maybe it would be better if I faded the screen to black when iterating thru players and seeing what you should not see?

EDIT: @Brad: I'll look into that later.

[joaquimandrade]

Maybe that would make it look nicer but for me isn't enough. I'm really waiting for anyone to make a new module for amxmodx that exposes every function for CS.

Anyway, that's up to you and to the users of the plugin. If they find it acceptable that way that's ok for them.

I was writing in here more like to share my experience in this matter with you.

[Jack86]

Could not find function "messageText"
[AMXX] Displaying debug trace (plugin "block_ghosting.amxx")
[AMXX] Run time error 19: function not found
[AMXX] [0] block_ghosting.sma::plugin_init (line 25)

[joaquimandrade]

Originally Posted by Jack86 Could not find function "messageText" [AMXX] Displaying debug trace (plugin "block_ghosting.amxx") [AMXX] Run time error 19: function not found [AMXX] [0] block_ghosting.sma::plugin_init (line 25)

The code has an error.

Change

PHP Code:

register_message(get_user_msgid("TextMsg"), "messageText") 


to

PHP Code:

register_message(get_user_msgid("TextMsg"), "MessageText") 


[anssik]

Fixed.