admin messages in nexuiz 1.5

[Bl@nk]

hey guys, i apologize if this under the wrong forum or something. I just noticed that on nexuiz as admin if you type , < cc say blah blah > , it will say the server name then the message. I thought maybe at least in 1.5 it would say < admin: blah blah > or something. If there is a patch for another nexuiz could the guys that make nexuiz put like a message admin: then message. Or even a message in the centre of the screen or something. Is that at all possible? Or is there another way to write admin messages that i dont know about?

[esteel]

You can use use normal say blabla in the console to say something to the others..
if you use cc the command is just done on the server.. that why its the server that 'says' something. To be honest i see no reason to make this special in any case. It would be possible to make something that will print a centerprint to all clients..
What for do you need it?

[Bl@nk]

basically to send a admin message to everyone. a message that specifically from admin. There one in every game, just thought it possible to get one in this game too. Can say admin: blah blah.

[esteel]

Well if the message comes from the server (if you use cc say it uses the servers hostname as 'name') it should be very obvious its from the admin? At least i think so.
Its not very easy to change this and i'm not sure its worth the work..
And its the same if you type say blabla at the servers console.. in fact cc acts like you had entered the command at the servers console..

[Bl@nk]

Ok so that why it hasnt been done, coz it's hard work? ye i just thought it would be nice if a message could be sent by admin saying Admin: blah blah.

Just annoying coz if you got a long server name then you cant say much coz it takes up the hole line.

[esteel]

Well a long servername is bad and not just because of this. The ingame server browser is not that big, so long names are bad there too.
And what ffs do people put into the hostname? It should really just be a short name and maybe (PURE/TDM) or something.. Everything else should go into the sv_motd
This means i get your point but cc say should be ok for most cases (it line-wraps in case you have not yet noticed). And in case you use cc say.. you can also say it your self and tell the people you are the admin. I mean they will notice sooner or later that its the truth

Oh the next version will get a quake1-compatible rcon.. but i have no idea if that works any better in that regard..

[Bl@nk]

is the rcon going to be very different to the cc commands? it going to be built into it? Sweet, ye is should have something like that. Thanx alot hey. Thanx for your help. Any idea when the next one coming out?

[KadaverJack]

is the rcon going to be very different to the cc commands?

No. The only difference is, that you have to set the cvar "rcon_password" to the same value on server and client and use "rcon <command>" ingame. You still can use the cc/ccl commands and if you only want to use remote admin ingame, i would advise you to these instead of rcon (it's more secure). However the biggest advantage of rcon is, that you can control your server without having to start nexuiz, so you can build webinterfaces, remote admn tools, etc...

Any idea when the next one coming out?

When it's done
There some engine bugs left, LordHavoc said some is currently rewriting the sound system (imho we should wait for this to be done, so we can include option for the -sndspeed/-sndstereo switches many ppl need in the menu) and not all maps are recompiled with deluxemaps yet.
So no idea when all this will be done, but i hope it's soon

[Bl@nk]

ok thanx alot, im sure there is rcon say in the rcon admin. There normally is. K thanx hey.

[KadaverJack]

ok thanx alot, im sure there is rcon say in the rcon admin. There normally is. K thanx hey.

"rcon say" wil do exactly the same thing as "cc say". There is no difference if a command is issued by cc or rcon, the both act like the command is entered into the server console. The only difference is, that rcon allows you to the servers response to a command.