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Another attempt...

Well we all know Red Faction has been through a lot and the people behind the 1.30 patch found the way to solve the major problem. However, no one seems to use the patch for some unknown reason. Now another great attempt to help remedy the cheating problem is available and goes by the name of Red Faction Advanced Server Utility or RFASU for short. This application runs along with a dedicated server and can do some nice things such as taking vote requests for a level change, taking vote requests for a player kick or ban, server messenging, and most importantly, Enforcing legal characters in names. This app blocks players using hex and ASCII in their names from even joining the server. And since a lot of cheaters are using special characters in their names to avoid banning, this restores power to the rcon users because those cheaters cant even join. If they try to enter the server, they join, they are kicked like they dont have the level file, and their IP is added to the banlist. This is only a BETA version so IMO the voting needs some work because pretty much any player can change the level if they know the commands. In any case this application is currently running on the "THIS SERVER FOR SALE" CTF server and is working quite well with keeping cheaters out and keeping people in the server. Of course having rcon on the server will still be very handy, but the votekick option is still there if people know how to use it and most importantly dont abuse it.

You can find more info on the RFASU [url=http://www.geocities.com/ando15au/rfasu.html]here[/URL].

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and to prempt any 'smart people' who will mention ASCII is in all computer text or something similar to that point, he is refering to the charicters that cannot be accesed when you are trying to kick/ban someone.

you should probly make the auto banning people with weird charicters an option, cause there are a number of non cheaters with such charicters in there names, maybe an auto-kick rather than auto-ban

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The "Enforcing of Legal Characters" is an option, as are all the other features. And I understand that there are people that use those characters and dont cheat but o well. If someone cant find a name without using those characters then thats too bad. They should learn to play the game like its supposed to be played. I think it out weighs the fact that there are more cheaters that use it to not get banned then normal people using it to look cool. But I do agree on reducing the auto ban to an auto kick because the people do deserve to come back in and play with a normal name. I have emailed the creator about that.

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how are the vote things implemented, are they console comands?

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Very clever little addition...

[url=http://www.geocities.com/ando15au/commands.html]No.[/url]

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any one else useing this

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When I get my DSL hook-up I'll be using this, hopefully on a 8-14 player server.


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Finally an account that works here

I made a similar proggy, i posted a list of commands at hqn but i thought i would post it here to

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OK heres a current list of commands with descriptions.

All Outputs are to CHAT eventually i hope to output to console of specific user but that still needs work
All Commans Run from CONSOLE and are prefixed with RCON (as if u didnt know )

The following commands can be modified by the server admin, they are stored in a VBScript file.

getnoob
Outputs the following:
RconSender wants to know the current n00b.
Current n00b is PlayerName having died NumberofDeaths times.
if no one has died output is:
Current n00b is RconSender for asking whos the n00b when no-ones died yet!!

deaths PlayerName
Outputs the following:
RconSender wants to know how many times PlayerName has died.
PlayerName has died NumberofDeaths times.
if no one has the PlayerName requested, output is:
RconSender is a n00b for asking about someone whos not there!!

gun PlayerName
Outputs the following:
RconSender wants to know what gun PlayerName has
PlayerName has a " & gun
if no one has the PlayerName requested, output is:
RconSender is a n00b for asking about someone whos not there!!

showasc
Outputs All players that have Extended ASCII characters in their name i used a range of 36 - 126 i think
IDIDValue:AsciiPlayersName Is on Ascii Ban List

kickasc
Kicks everyone on the showasc list
**Only works for RCON holders**
if your not a valid rcon holder the returns
RconSender Tried the restricted rcon command kickasc

banasc
Bans everyone on the showasc list
**Only works for RCON holders**
if your not a valid rcon holder the returns
RconSender Tried the restricted rcon command banasc

kickascid ID
Kicks the ascii ID on the showasc list
**Only works for RCON holders**
if your not a valid rcon holder the returns
RconSender Tried the restricted rcon command kickascid

banascid ID
Bans the ascii ID on the showasc list
**Only works for RCON holders**
if your not a valid rcon holder the returns
RconSender Tried the restricted rcon command banascid

getnamefromid ID
**Only works for RCON holders**
Outputs:
The name of the user with the ID specified everyplayer is numbers 1 to X, where X is the number of players numbered in order of joining.
if your not a valid rcon holder the returns
RconSender Tried the restricted rcon command getnamefromid

ban_id ID
**Only works for RCON holders**
Will do a ban IP on the ID Specified the getnamefromid will give u the names
if your not a valid rcon holder the returns
RconSender Tried the restricted rcon command getnamefromid

request
Replaces Rcon_request Password
now just use Rcon request Password

Standard Rcon Commands redone
**Only works for RCON holders**
These should no longer crash the server
kick PlayerName
level LevelName
ban PlayerName

Any other RCON Command
Outputs:
rconsender Sent an unhandled rcon request, Command was rconcommand
Parameter for rcon Command was Parameter

The folowing commands are hard coded, i had todo them like this cause of the logic involved, prolly could have done them in a script file but choose the easier option.

votelevel LevelFILEName
Starts a Vote on the Level Specified, I want to validate if the level name exsists but am working on that atm.

votekick Playername
Starts a vote to kick the Player specified. If the player doesnt exsist the vote stops

voteban Playername
Starts a vote to ban the Player specified. If the player doesnt exsist the vote stops

vote y
vote n
Commands used to vote yes or no

votecancel RconPassword
Cancels the current vote, Stops n00bs banning/kicking rcon holders

the server admin get to turn these commands on or off
he/she also has the control of the percentage needed to action a vote (default is 50% of the server)
while a vote is in progress the server outputs the results every 10 seconds
the output is a percentage of yes and no votes
the votes run for 60 seconds

Well thats it for now, i think some one is writing a script to log all the info to a db but dunno whether they started yet

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