List of wants for server admin

Mon May 26, 2003 2:31 pm by Allen

As an administrator of a server, there are a few things which would be nice:-

1) Ability to join the server without having to go through internet / lan access.

2) Program to look into people's accounts (although this is being worked on - look forward to using it)

3) An admin ship - which can jump to systems without having to fly all the way there, and is neutral to all factions (so doesn't get attacked left right and centre). Just for server policing.

4) To be able to pick up those that have cheated / trained their way to high levels.

These are just a few of the top of my head - any one with any more. Do Microsoft listen to requests for upgrades to their products, or if I mail them would my pleas fall on deaf ears??!

Mon May 26, 2003 7:43 pm by Dreglor

5) stop the server chrashes/frezzes
6) fix all the bugs!

Tue May 27, 2003 7:45 pm by Argonus

The ability for the Admin to change character names. (Mask names with foul or obscene language is my main reason)

I would love that ability...To heck with the others....lol

-Arg

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Tue May 27, 2003 10:13 pm by [SD]Falcon

Genedefect needs that argonus. Hes got 4500 accounts and most likely 2000 banned ones to boot.

Wed May 28, 2003 12:03 pm by Braxton

genedefect said the number of banned accounts was somewhere in the region of 300, NOT 2000! But I guess I still have to agree with you though. Quite a lot of bannings are due to him disagreeing with the name.

Instead of the player being identified by name, how about if they're identified by a "Player ID". That way, players could change their own name, and others can still recognize them from the ID. However, that means people could change to an obscene name whenever they want. Though if players had IDs, it would probably be displayed on the player list (chat window), which is seen by everyone. So all you need is 1 player (out of all of them) to show the admin a screenshot. After that, it's all up to the admin. Also, if players can change their names, there would probably be a log which shows all the name changes.

You know how you can make it so players can't harm other players. I would like this option expanded a little. I mean you could deactivate PvP in specific systems, so when the server says "No PvP in Liberty", it really means it. Or a no PvP server could designate a few systems where it is allowed, so players won't get bored. Maybe even an optional feature where players have some control. They could make it so other players can't harm them...but they wouldn't be able to harm the other players.

Right now the only way to change the starting money, reps and so on is to edit a file. I would like an option screen where you can change those things. For money, you type in a number, for base/system, you select it from a drag-down menu. Then for the reps, it would show all the factions like they are on the "status" screen, and you change the rep level by simply clicking on the bar underneath. Then if you want, you can just click the 'default' option.

Sun Jun 01, 2003 10:56 pm by Sir_Warwick

On jump across systems:

After looking through keyxxxx.ini files and freelancer.exe its seems there was a nav-map teleport feature used for debugging purposes...

Also a facility for showing all ships in a system on the nav-map (I assume).

They would be very useful admin tools.

(I checked the exe - none of the DBG_xxxx key mappings are present in the release build so dont waste yer time trying to enable them...)

BTW - anyone know how to allow more than 5 characters per account? - thought about parking admin ships in most of the major systems.

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