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Just wondering is there a place where you can access plugins used on mofo?
have they been released? using /listplugins i see there is 24 there, but can only really find grenade.
Any help would be great, cheers

Pretty sure that most of them have not been released.

There WAS a Reverse-Geno plugin earlier in January and last year, but Optic removed it recently, as it was pure luck when someone got the kill, so it's no longer there. I don't know if the plugin still exists. You'll have to ask Optic Delusion.

Although not all of them have been released, there is some of them which have been released.

The ones which have been released in one way or another will be linked here:

Ones included in BZFlag install:

• ServerControl
• SuperUser
• LogInfo
• AutoFlagReset

(Probably another plug-in handles the "rampage" messages, but PlayHistoryTracker adds some messages, so it might be worth looking into.)

• playerdb_plugin and playerdb_website
• Extra point flags (This is how 50 point, 3 point flag were made, I believe.)
• bountyHunter
• shotLimitZone (This is how mofo makes the 1 shot wings flag under base.)
• CaptureBonus (Points on capping the flag.)
• uselessRampage (Not to be confused with useless mines.)
• ScoreRestorer (It's either this plug-in or the next one which is used for restoring scores.)
• RestoreScore (It might be this one, and both work similar.)
• Spawn Facing the Center (A modification to this plug-in is probably done to have it face the enemies team flag.)
• anonSay (I believe "/asay" is how you send a message without callsign showing up in this plugin.)
• antiLagkickRejoin
• Grenade flag release - as seen on Apocalypse
• adminListener (The secret mofo does not want you to know about.[Probably a mod to this plug-in too.])

This should contain a large amount of the plug-ins MoFo uses.
Overall, some of the ones which are not published, I assume are either modifications to existing plug-ins or a simple custom one.
If you want more of the extra shot flags, here is a link to the CustomFlags and SnakeShots plug-ins.

Some final notes, generally using two or more plug-ins who fire world weapons can create an issue.
Some people have modified and merged plug-ins to avoid this issue.
(This is why "grenades and airstrikes" plug-in exists in Mofo vs "grenade" and "airstrike" plug-ins.)

Edit: Here's a link to the ReverseGeno plug-in: ReverseGeno.

If there is any added/additional info needed, feel free to reply to this topic or to private message me.

-Zehra

All of the flags that shoot extra shots on MoFo are closed source and will likely remain as such. I may maintain them now but didn't write them so I wouldn't have permission to release them even if I wanted to.

Reverse Geno only makes sense if you also have the Apocalypse plugin, which will not be released.
Parts of the Apocalypse plugin have been released, like CaptureBonus.

PlayerDB was hackalicious. It used to crash once a week, but blast improved it by modding bzfs itself (I think). Thanks Blast.
Blast deserves a ton of thanks for the work he does every day.

We're currently using SpawnFacingCenter modded so you instead spawn facing the other team's flag.

ShotLimitZone was my idea, but coded by Allejo, and is extremely powerful. It doesn't have to be a pinpoint zone.
I really like having some flags unlimited, but others of the same type that ARE limited.

AdminListener only works if the admin is in observer mode. It would be evil otherwise.
We have several evil plugins, but I only get them out for special occasions. Usually April Fools Day.

Not sure if the bug in UselessRampage was ever fixed.

RestoreOnRejoin is the proper name of that one.

The extra-shot flags... I'd give them to you if I could. Let me see if.....

PlayerDB worked fine on my server. I seem to recall the issue was that you guys were accidentally loading the plugin twice.

There was a post on some plug-ins conflicting with each other, so this could be the case.

Pac-Man wrote: ↑Sat Oct 04, 2014 9:40 pm It is a known bug that occurs when Airstrike is mixed with other plugins. There is a conflict because Killer Rabbit of Cearbannog specifically also uses SW, but I believe it also conflicts with Death Blossom and Triple Barrel if processed in the wrong order. Triple Barrel and Death Blossom also conflict.

The easiest fix is to combine the custom flag plugins into one plugin. The more scalable fix is to write versions of each plugin that communicate via a protocol - JeffM added something to make inter-plugin communication possible when I brought up this issue some time ago. I decided against correcting the issue because:

• I didn't want to be "that guy" who rewrites/maintains everyone else's custom flag plugin.
• I was told those other plugins wouldn't be present anyway so I supported Airstrike for such a case, which I was already reluctant to do because I couldn't use my own API.
• Otherwise requires an up-to-date server.

Link to original topic: Airstrike plug-in question/problem

-Zehra

Edit: p.s. post was mostly as a general note that plug-ins (firing world weapons) might conflict with each other. (Link provides an example case of it happening.)

Dunno if you were responding to optic or me. If you were responding to me, it wasn't a case of two plugins conflicting. The PlayerDB plugin was being loaded twice.

And speaking of the shot-limit plugin Zehra was explaining about earlier, Optic said the following:

ShotLimitZone was my idea, but coded by Allejo, and is extremely powerful. It doesn't have to be a pinpoint zone.
I really like having some flags unlimited, but others of the same type that ARE limited.

However, you don't need that plugin on all maps, but if you want to host one where some flags of a type aren't limited, and others in certain zones ARE limited, then you should use the plugin. However, if you want all flags of a specific type to have a shot limit, then the plugin isn't needed, because you just need to input the command to put a shot limit on all flags on the map. The command to do so is -sl (flag abbr.) (#) . It's really quite simple. However, I leave the more complex coding to you guys, as you have much more experience in the field than I do.