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GUI Admin System

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I'm proposing an in-game GUI administrative system similar to the one implemented in Counter-Strike: Source and HL2 (via a plugin). Basically, there is an admin menu, which is brought up by a command (or a bind) that allows a player to do a variety of things. There could be sections for kicking/banning players, another for changing server options, etc. Then through sub menus administrators could select ban durations, players to kick or ban, and variables to change. Since it is a little difficult to type out commands at times, I believe it would be easier to just bring up a menu in which you could press a few numbers and then the problems would be solved. I'm not sure, but I believe the Mani Admin Plugin (which is the one used by CS:S and HL2) is written in Lua and seeing as BZFlag now has the ability to handle Lua plugins, maybe this could be written in Lua. However, I don't know any Lua and a very limited amount of C++, so I can't really submit a patch, I just wanted to get the idea out there.

Here are some screenshots I took of how the system works in CS:S.

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Have you tried 'o'...
It is not only to get lagstats, try using your arrow keys before pressing enter.
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joevano wrote:Have you tried 'o'...
It is not only to get lagstats, try using your arrow keys before pressing enter.
The 'o' menu is horrible.
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I don't disagree, but most don't know it is even there
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I never use the "o" menu, it's not the best thing out there. I just do the tab auto complete for longer commands.
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I also hate the 'o' menu, but it is very convenient for checking lagstats sometimes. I didn't know tab could auto-complete commands, I always have it working for jump. Of course, that doesn't really matter when scrolling the mouse wheel up jumps.
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The problem Think_Different is making isnt whether we have a GUI Admin System, its the quality of it and how it works. Personally, I think this is a good idea. It can be a simple menu where you scroll thru and pick a player and choose a command. When picking ban, you can enter the duration of time.

Good idea TD
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i agree with this system. certainly when there are new players and they dont want to look in the books for the comands, but this list would be pretty big... :roll:
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