Admin Bot for JKII

[The Austrian]

Hi gang.

 

So, has anyone looked into modifying or creating an admin bot, perhaps based on WAB or something?

 

I'd start to make one myself in perl but I just don't know enough about the RCON protocol in JKII to get the bot to connect.

 

Anyone have info or pointers which might get me going in the right direction, or is anyone actually working on a similar project that would like help?

[MatrixCPA]

You should contact Quark (the creator of WAB) to see if he's make a mod for it. I was getting ready to see how far the existing WAB can go. I'd suspect that it would work fine, except for the anti-tk part since that's based on weapon types. It might also get confused about the players and what teams they are on because the console display regarding that is different.

 

I'll let you know what results I get.

 

*UPDATE*

 

I turned off all the kick features (just in case) and run WAB along side my JO server. It half works. It can tell when people join and leave and can see what they say. However, if someone changes their name it gets confused a bit and (obviously) it can't understand what team people are on nor what weapons are used to kill with. I think that modifying it should be a reasonable option. I have contacted Quark about it and I'll let you know what he says.

 

Maybe he'll call it JAB.

[The Austrian]

BTT

[MatrixCPA]

Ok, I contacted Quark and he really doesn't have the time or desire to maintain a separate fork of WAB for JK2. So, I have taken on the task of modifying WAB into JAB myself. I have already got the weapon and user info sections reworked for JK2 and will test out the admin pieces to verify they work as-is tonight. There technically isn't too much that needs to be changed...except that it'll take a while to get the anti-tk settings modified for JK2 gameplay. I should have a beta release within a week or two, provided that current testing proceeds well.

 

One thing I have run into is that people who don't set their player name get called "padawan" by the server, but show up as an "empty" name in the console status. JAB wants to boot those people for having an empty name. I suppose that would work out just like auto-kicking people named "padawan" because if they don't know how to change their name, maybe you don't want them on your server. I'll convert it into an option.

 

I expect to have a website/forum for the project up shortly. I'll paste a link here when it's ready.

[Hell Raiser]

Sounds cool.