The servers are using a new rights system for playerworld staff.
Instead of only using 4 or 5 levels for the admins, the rights
(warp power, viewing attributes, disconnecting players etc.)
can be separately assigned to admins depending on the
position of the admin/player. This is also introducing new
stuff like locally ban players and editing ip ranges directly
in the account.
This new rights system currently only works for playerworld staff,
while global staff rights still depend on the adminlevel
set in the account. We will soon have less global admins since
most things can be done with local rights,
global admins are only needed for doing global bans
and making playerworld staff accounts.
The playerworld staff accounts are not automatically switched
to the local rights yet. If you login on an account that has not
been switched, then you will get the default rights
depending on your adminlevel. The new rights thing
will only be enabled when the rights are edited
(by an admin with the power to edit rights). In one week
all playerworld staff accounts that have not been
switched will be autmatically switched and get no rights.
To be able to edit rights or using the other new
RC features, download the
latest version.
When right-clicking on a player in the playerlist then you will
see new menu options: 'Edit rights' opens a window where you can
edit the rights and ip range of the player (if you are authorized
for editing the rights). The ip range field (default: *.*.*.*) can
contain more than one ip range, just separate them with commas.
'Edit comments' opens a window where you
can edit the comments about the account/player. It can be longer than
the old limitation of 200 characters. 'Edit Ban' will open a window
where you specify if the player is banned on the current server,
and the reason for the ban. The reason should also contain
the time of the illegal action of the player and the name of the
admin, so that you later know why, when and how the player
has been banned. The 'Reset' option is not new in the version,
but because not all admins know it yet informations about what it does:
It lets you reset the attributes of the player on the current playerworld.
It will set all stuff to the default value, except kills, deaths, onlinetime,
rating, comments, rights, local ban, ip range, head img, body img,
and body colors.
Other new features:
- a right-click menu in the accounts list
- serverflags list, accounts flags and account weapons list can
display stuff that is widther than one line and don't truncate it
- removed stuff from the starting window that is not longer needed
With the new gserver version there are also new server options:
- startap=50
specifies how much alignment (ap) a player gets when he logs in
for the first time
- respawntime=10
specifies how fast bushes respawn (in seconds)
- horselifetime=10
specifies after how many seconds horses disappear (horses
made with the script command puthorse)
- baddyrespawntime=120
specifieds after how many seconds killed baddies respawn
I can also add something to the options (the secret part) for
setting a reset time for the server, so making possible server
resets simplier, since its only editing one line in the text file
and people will still have all their stats.
There is currently a problem with disconnecting players,
if its a problem on your server then let me know (it has already
been fixed but the servers are not restarted each time a small
problem occurs or a small feature is added).
08-22-2001, 05:38 AM
-the thinker
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