Requests/ideas For Adminmod Or Metamod Plugins

j0e

<div class="IPBDescription">NS-specific plugin ideas?</div> What plugins would be good for NS servers? I'm not talking about temporary stuff to fix NS bugs that will be fixed soon anyway. I'm talking about plugins that can help admins manage a server, or make the game more fun, or otherwise enhance the experience for everyone.

Some ideas i've heard:
1. give commander some limited commands that he loses when he leaves commander, such as ability to gag, freeze, or kick marines to readyroom (commander = mini admin)

2. voting to give up, e.g. if 75% of the marines type /concede in chat, the game is over and the marines lose (would work for aliens too). this would prevent the 1 marine from hiding somewhere and making the game last forever, or when everyone spends 20 minutes waiting for the marines to take out the last hive. should speed up games a little

3. team captains - lock everyone in readyroom. do a vote for team captains, then let team captains pick players for their team 1 by 1 (e.g. like kids picking teams for baseball)

i'm not talking about plugins to change the balance of the game (e.g. giving out health at armory or make weapons do more damage), but if you have ideas for that, it might be interesting to hear them, also.

to give you some ideas, on my cs server i have these plugins:
anti-flood chat (kicks for spamming chat)
bugblatter map voting (allows nominating maps and automatic map vote)
weapons restriction - can't buy or pick up weapons
+30 health bonus for knife kill
chicken mod
half-life monsters attack AFk players (e.g. zombie, snark)

Acheron

I think it's hard to restrict weapons, for the marines at least, in a game where they only get 5 guns (+ knife/mines/welder).

We could use "mute" functionality too, but I think that's on the way.

GoleX

The only one I like is 3 really.

1 and 2 scare me, I don't like giving people I don't know privs on my server <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> Call my paranoid but one jackass, or jackass guild abusing them can clear out a server.

I'll talk to my clan and see if we can come up with any ideas.

Theiggsta

Well, a nice thing would be a plugin to limit items or change their values. One woudl be to make the seige obsolete on certain maps as it makes the marines go rambo much mroe often just so they can sneak up, setup a seige cannon and the game is over.

I know ive been trying this on nano a few times, where I make a rule not to use seiges, and needless to say the marines stick together much more often and actually take a hive the TEAM way instead of a rambo HA HMG guy.

I know the laser sight was one prodigy was playing with and I hear thats making marines not go rambo as much either, those so far sound great and I woudl like to see them available sometime.

if you need someone to beta test them, let me know <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

MoNkEy_MaN_X

That concede one would probably be good, insted of waiting things out for impending doom LOL! I'd probably install it.

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