[hellomoto]

Hi,

I play a mod called Fortress Forever which is currently on the original Source 2006 SDK. Currently, the game does not have native support for preventing teams from becoming uneven by players and wanted to know if someone could create a simple plugin that would help prevent this.

I don't need the plugin to do anything else such as automatically balancing the teams. Just the prevention from someone choosing or switching to another team that already has too many players. And also a CVAR to be able to disable the plugin for maps that don't need it turned on.

Traditionally, there are 2 teams, Red and Blue, similar to TF2. But in FF, there are actually 4 total teams including Yellow and Green which I would need this to apply to as well.

If someone could create this I'd greatly appreciate it. This mod has been out since 2007 and has not yet got this feature so I'm tired of waiting for the developers to add it.

I thank you for your time,

FPSMoto

[SadScrub]

Hello. This might work (it's just preventing team switch if a client's old team has less players than the new team):

#pragma semicolon 1

#include <sourcemod>
#include <sdktools>

#define THRESHOLD 1

new Handle:g_Enabled;
new bool:isEnabled = true;

public OnPluginStart()
{
    g_Enabled = CreateConVar("ff_teambalance", "1", "Enables/disables plugin");
    
    HookConVarChange(g_Enabled, OnEnabledChange);
    HookEvent("player_team", Event_TeamChange, EventHookMode_Pre);
}

public OnEnabledChange(Handle:cvar, const String:oldVal[], const String:newVal[])
{
    isEnabled = GetConVarBool(g_Enabled);
}

public Action:Event_TeamChange(Handle:event, const String:name[], bool:dontBroadcast)
{
    if (!isEnabled)
        return Plugin_Continue;
        
    new client = GetClientOfUserId(GetEventInt(event, "userid"));

    new oldteam = GetEventInt(event, "oldteam");
    new newteam = GetEventInt(event, "team");
    
    if ( (oldteam > 1) && (newteam > 1) && ( (GetTeamClientCount(newteam) - GetTeamClientCount(oldteam)) >= THRESHOLD ) )
    {
        ChangeClientTeam(client, oldteam);
        return Plugin_Handled;
    }
    
    return Plugin_Continue;
}

[hellomoto]

Thanks for your assistance but I tried this and it didn't work.

[Bacardi]

If you could, run this "debug" plugin on your server few map changes.
Want to know how those team index have shared, will FF game use same team index 0 and 1 as teams etc. etc.
Or will people have spectator team even there is 4 teams.
And have people "random" team join.

depug

PHP Code:


#include <sdktools>

public OnPluginStart()
{
    AddCommandListener(jointeam, "");
}

public Action:jointeam(client, const String:command[], argz)
{
    if(client == 0 || !IsClientInGame(client))
    {
        return Plugin_Continue;
    }

    if(StrContains(command, "join", false) != -1 || StrContains(command, "team", false) != -1 || StrContains(command, "class", false) != -1 || StrContains(command, "spectate", false) != -1)
    {
        new String:buffer[256];
        GetCmdArgString(buffer,sizeof(buffer));
        Format(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%N %s %s", client, command, buffer);
        new team_count = GetTeamCount();
        new client_team = GetClientTeam(client);
        new client_team_count = GetTeamClientCount(client_team);
        LogToFile("cmd_debug.txt", "%s\nteam_count %i, client_team %i, client_team_count %i", buffer, team_count, client_team, client_team_count);
    }

    return Plugin_Continue;
} 


But here another plugin for test, after you have run above plugin to collect enough info, so you had get logs in file cmd_debug.txt
Show that file in here then.

This is totally guessing now.

test

PHP Code:


#include <sdktools>

public OnPluginStart()
{
    AddCommandListener(jointeam, "jointeam");
}

public Action:jointeam(client, const String:command[], argz)
{
    if(!IsClientInGame(client))
    {
        return Plugin_Continue;
    }

    if(argz < 1)
    {
        //Player sent bad jointeam syntax
        return Plugin_Handled;
    }

    new String:buffer[4];
    GetCmdArg(1, buffer, sizeof(buffer));

    new join_team = StringToInt(buffer);
    new team_count = GetTeamCount();

    if(join_team < 0 || join_team > team_count)
    {
        return Plugin_Handled;
    }
    else if(join_team == 0) // Have they Random team join ? Uncomment below line
    {
        //return Plugin_Continue;
    }

    new client_team = GetClientTeam(client);
    new client_team_count = GetTeamClientCount(client_team);

    if(GetTeamClientCount(join_team) >= client_team_count)
    {
        PrintToChat(client, "[SM] Nooooooo....");
        return Plugin_Handled;
    }

    return Plugin_Continue;
}