Join In Progress enhancement

[Terox]

I have been thinking about the implementation of additional functionality of JIP from a server admin perspective.

Off the top of my head, such abilities as being able to decide the following, if the mission maker deems the mission requires it:
<ul>a) Select which side a Player should spawn into
b) Select which unit/group a Player should spawn into
c) Select where the Player should start from after initial spawn
d) Hold J.I.P Players in "stasis" until a "reinforcement phase"
e) dealing with unruly players, other than kick/ban[/list]

and a miriad of other possibilities that could be opened up.

All this of course can be scripted by the mission maker, addon maker apart from identifying the Admin

The problem: There is no automated way to define who is the ADMIN to attach such a control (e.g dialogue) too
?(LOCAL ADMIN):

So it makes it very difficult to create an automated system, eg an addon utilising a gamelogic

Of course this kind of control could be assigned to a specific playable slot, which would give the player the "Command Dialogue" at mission start, however this would not be the ideal solution


I am sure the Multiplayer community admins would find such functionality a great asset.

I have no idea what / how much work would be required by the Devs to implement such a command, but i am sure it would be greatly appreciated.
There is obviously already some underlying engine code to identify the admin for reassigns etc


So whats the chance ??

[lwlooz]

If I understand yours post correctly, you are requesting a way to check if any player in an MP game is an admin or not.
Sort of an "IsAdmin"(IsVotedAdmin) command.

I think that would be a great addition and I don&#39;t believe it would that difficult to check engine wise,considering your client knows it anyways ,otherwise you couldn&#39;t do the command line admin functions.

I personally like with most scripting request for enhanced MP scripting think its a great idea.And you could do most stuff you listed there script-wise then.

Also an ability for the admin to ingame lock/unlock playable slots seems a good idea to me.
This could be either achieved by a constant access to the reassignment-screen with an additional option to lock slots there or script-wise to enhance the setPlayable command to also be able to make slots unplayable.

In general I think it would help JIP a lot if the OnPlayerConnected/OnPlayerDisconnected eventhandlers would also pass the object a new player joined into or disconnected from. [Before anyone tells me this "Hey,you can ask who he joined into by player",that is impossible on the server where OnPlayerConnected,Disconnected are fired].
Edit: Also it might be useful to take a look at the "_id" thing,seems broken

[Terox]

OnPlayerConnected,Disconnected firing on the server only eh?

That could be a problem for JIP implemented systems

this is where a network services solution would be of great value

[IceBreakr]

It would help a lot if BIS implemented "password for selecting one side" option.

[Pennywise]

Here is an easy work around for executing onPlayerConnected on all clients:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
MY_JIP=&#34;player globalChat _name; if &#40;&#40;name player&#41; == _name&#41; then {call compile loadfile &#34;&#34;yourscript.sqf&#34;&#34;;};&#34;;
onPlayerConnected &#34;&#91;&#93; spawn compile MY_JIP&#34;;
[/QUOTE]

However, I haven&#39;t tested this on newer clients 1.4 and up, but it works on 1.2.

[IceBreakr]

Any ideas how to put teammembers (based on squad.xml?) on one side and all other joining player to the other? Or if a random player picks the wrong side, he gets kicked/killed?

[Terox]

Any ideas how to put teammembers (based on squad.xml?) on one side and all other joining player to the other? Or if a random player picks the wrong side, he gets kicked/killed?
if they ever implement this, then you could use an array of your squads player names to filter this, however it is my experience, that if you are running a server and all your squad is on one side, it wont stay popular for long. You really need to split your team up evenly to create a fair game