Constillation Question
antifreeze
The guy with the goods! Join Date: 2003-05-12 Member: 16232Members, Constellation
The guy with the goods! Join Date: 2003-05-12 Member: 16232Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">NOOO, its not the icons..</div> Had this idea the other day and thought i would post it. Currently on servers admin get reserved slots, fair enough they should. But what if admins could get reserved slots alongside constillation members. So on an 20 player server have 3 admin slots and 2 constillation slots. This would releave my flustration on not been able to play on some servers coz there allways full. Anyway, i dont know if this could be programmed, how it would work or anything coz im not an uber |337 coder, but somebody out ther is. This would also be a good idea because it would help flayra get more people to sign up to the constillation to get reserved slots.
Can this be done??
Would anyone do it?
Can this be done??
Would anyone do it?
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I dont think clans would be happy if someone who had not helped to pay for the server got a reserved slot for free. (I mean, i know you paied for constellation - but i paid for the server... for example)...
And if i dont want you to have the reserved slot, the choice should be mine.
Im not exactly worried though, as constellation members would never get this sort of privilage. Even if they wanted to implement it, it would take far too much time.
- Kar
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To much time for what:
-to develop... Dont think so there is allready a lookup for who is a member and give them an icon, couldn't it just be a system of who is a member give them a slot.
-to impliment... The list of people is stored at ns.org so wouldn't it be a case of changing a server variable.
Using this system i am not trying to attack your admin power, it would be the admins choice in the first place to eneable the system and for howmany slots.
This appears to be a perfect solution, if you want a reserve slot that bad then pay Flayra some money and we'll let you in ahead of the other people. Our server gets better players. The players don't have to retry for half an hour to get in, and Flayra can go out and buy some food. Everybody wins. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I think the best solution would be a metamod plugin that can see the list the server downloads and somehow stops amx/adminmod/clanmod etc. from dropping the player. That way it wouldn't need a text file being constantly updated manually.
Just need somone to construct this amazing plugin. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Honestly, you make it sound like Flayra is huddled in an alleyway, clutching a tattered, dirty blanket around his malnourished frame, trembling with hunger and cold, with sad puppy-dog eyes, coding at ns for hours on end at his computer, which plugged into some apartment building's electrical outlet and a jerry-rigged modem tapped right into the phone lines.
Cue Sally Struthers!
Tell you what though...Empire Earth is another game Flayra did some work on. He didn't do all the work, but he did some of the more important aspects, and it seems like a really good game. Don't know if Flayra gets any money if it sells, but it's a good game.
Check out www.overmind.com (I believe it is) and check out some of the other stuff he's done.
You want an icon? Donate for constellation.
Need that private slot? Donate to keep individual servers up.
2. Not many servers want to hand out slots at all, as in cheesys case.
This mod i would want to be admin controlled of course, so it could be turned off. But i would like the chance to join my favorite servers easilly, and so i suspect would many other people. Such as the YO server, the BY servers and nano. And admins its not like giving up 1 slot is the same as dissconectiong your server from the internet, common 1 or 2 slots. And i suppose it would only be fair if devs and PT could use this system aswell.
It really needs to be done in metamod and I don't have the skills to do that.
Unless some major hacking is done into figuring out how NS is recieving the player's wonids, this isnt really possible :/ All I know about it is that it uses port 80 and opens up a password protected website. (Which I dont know the password so its rather useless).
Unless some major hacking is done into figuring out how NS is recieving the player's wonids, this isnt really possible :/ All I know about it is that it uses port 80 and opens up a password protected website. (Which I dont know the password so its rather useless). <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
The username/password is encoded in base64 and is easily obtained by using one of the many programs on the interent to decode it. Anway I'm sure Flayra wouldn't mind letting us use it for this legitamite purpose.