serverCommand usage?

[gossamersolid 155]

serverCommand "#kick _name"

Would that effectively kick the player that is stored in the variable _name?

There's not documentation/examples on the wiki so I'm not sure on the usage.

[gossamersolid 155]

anybody use this yet?

[MH6 11]

serverCommand format["#kick %1",_name];

And yes I've used it. I've developed an RCON tool with it.

[gossamersolid 155]

serverCommand format["#kick %1",_name];

And yes I've used it. I've developed an RCON tool with it.

as in the rcon tool is an executable that we can actually RCON into our servers with?

If so then you should release that, I'm sure everybody would use it !

[MH6 11]

Yep. Going to start testing it out on a couple of servers soon, and if that goes well then I'll try and release it.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Suggestion: Make sure any kicked player knows he was kicked remotely, and why (i.e. Needed admin slot).

[gossamersolid 155]

well I couldn't get it to work still even with that syntax you showed me. Didn't give me an error, but didn't do anything.

People will know why they were kicked, it displays a message then counts 5 seconds then kicks them.

[MH6 11]

well I couldn't get it to work still even with that syntax you showed me. Didn't give me an error, but didn't do anything.

People will know why they were kicked, it displays a message then counts 5 seconds then kicks them.

Works fine here. Are you logging in first?

i.e.

serverCommand "#login password";
serverCommand format["#kick %1",_name];
serverCommand "#logout";

where password is, of course, the admin password for the server.

You can also check to make sure you can execute the command first--so you can essentially check to see if you're logged in--like so:

if(serverCommandAvailable "#kick") then {
    serverCommand format["#kick %1",_name];
} else {
   diag_log "Unable to kick player: Not logged in!";
};

Edited January 5, 2010 by MH6

[gossamersolid 155]

Works fine here. Are you logging in first?

i.e.

serverCommand "#login password";
serverCommand format["#kick %1",_name];
serverCommand "#logout";

where password is, of course, the admin password for the server.

You can also check to make sure you can execute the command first--so you can essentially check to see if you're logged in--like so:

if(serverCommandAvailable "#kick") then {
    serverCommand format["#kick %1",_name];
} else {
   diag_log "Unable to kick player: Not logged in!";
};

is there a secure way to login? I'd rather not write my server password in there for some punk to go download the mission from the server and unPbo it... also kinda ruins it for usage on other servers.

Now why would they make a script have to "login"... it kind of defeats the purpose of the server being able to use the commands.

[MH6 11]

Put all the commands in a server side addon as functions, then call the call the functions from scripts in the map. No one will have access to the addon besides the server admins, and that will contain the password.

Some interesting things you could do with this:

Create dynamic campaigns in multiplayer using the "#mission" command, called from within the map based on an objective being completed/failed.

Kicking players should they violate some rule on an RPG map, automatically

Edited January 5, 2010 by MH6

[gossamersolid 155]

I will have to look more into doing an addon based thing for the server as I've never touched addon making yet.