Player control plugin

Well… I try to do it myself but I failed. I’m a beginner in C++.

If I remember, on Discovery server, when a player dies, he loses all his cargo, including ammo, nano and shields batteries.
I know I ask much… but Is it possible to have the code wich is doing that, and explain to me the place where I have to add it ?

Thanks a lot for help

I know I have very little to offer you in return. But I find two things recently :

• make a mod wich isn’t readable with FLexplorer, FLcompanion, FLdatastorm and Flstats
• make a mod where commercial viability is the same for all goods around Sirius, whatever the distance. I made it with FLcompanion commod by commod. So, on our server, there is trading activity everywhere.

If anyone is interested, write me a pm.

There’s lines in FLHook.ini that control what cargo is lost (I think).

And hiding stuff from FLCompanion? Don’t do it.

=Alex= wrote:
There’s lines in FLHook.ini that control what cargo is lost (I think).

And hiding stuff from FLCompanion? Don’t do it.

Why’s that? I like to think people would never use that, but since this is utopic, I’d settle for making it as hard as possible.

Yes, I agree with you FriendlyFire. Without the help of these programs for players, we really can hide clan bases, wrecks, best trade routes… And we can put some NPC on bases with hints in rumors to find them. More fun.

What I do to do this is simple : I changed the name of freelancer.ini and I changed this name with an hexa editor in Freelancer.exe
So, when FLexplorer, FLcompanion, FLstats and FLDatastorm are looking for Freelancer.ini, they crash.
I can explain that better with screenshots if you need this.

Anyway… there’s no line for cargo loot in FLhook.ini (I use FLhook plugin).

To Cannon :

Greetings and happy new year !
Just a message to see if you had read what I said recently in this topic because you were absent for a while.
We tried to modify the source code of player control plugin, but we are unable to compile it. Is it something to do to configure Microsoft VC + + 2008 to do this?
Is it possible to know how you do on Discovery for players who die lose all their cargo, ammunition, shield batteries and nanobots included?
Is it possible to obtain this code or help us do this with player control plugin?

Sorry to insist, but we currently have no other options. Thanks for your answer.

how did you fixed the “zone” error?

I got the same error with message and playercontrol plugin…

When it loads FLserver i got

header [Zone] value size missing parameter 1

if the message or playerctrl plugin is installed…

@Syd : You need to install Freelancer SDK before using FLPlayerControl. (Can be found HERE )

Cannon, we really don’t want to be boring, but there’s still something we need to know :

The compilation has been passed with success using Microsoft Visual C++ Express (in it’s latest version). InGame, the plugin seems to be working quite well (commands like /stuck, /dice, or /pos are working perfectly). But for unknown reasons, human players don’t loot nothing…

When we just replace our half-working DLL with the one in the ZIP archive, all is working.

So here are my guesses :

• We are using VC++ with bad compilation options (or bad version ?)
• We need to add something in the linker or somewhere else (like FlakCommon.lib ? even if we already tried), or some headers or .cpp files
• There might be a problem with the .cpp files given in the archive.

Could you help us ?

Thanks in advance,
Kid

ah thanks, it works, SDK was to easy^^

Cannon wrote:
The plugin requires that freelancer.ini exists so that it can find information from the ini files. If you have renamed ‘freelancer.ini’ then you need to make a copy of it named ‘freelancer.ini’ so that the plugin can find it.

No, that’s not our problem. Because we rename ‘freelancer.ini’ only in the client version of the mod, but not in the server version
Renaming ‘freelancer.ini’ works perfectly : players can’t use Flexplorer, companion, data storm… And we started making RP quests with hiding depots or wrecks in the mod. The only way to find these objects… visit NPC with rumors. As I say, more fun

For our problem with player control plugin, always the same thing : a dead player doesn’t lose nanobots, shield batteries and ammo in his cargo after death.

Edit : It seems that you used Visual studio 7 (or Visual studio .NET 2002) to code ‘player control plugin’, right ?

Finaly, we did it.

This is our modification of Cannon’s player control plugin :

• when a player dies, he loses all ammos, nanobots and shield batteries. No cheat with double cargo.
• additionnal commodities : 1 escape pod and some scrap metal.
• all lootcrates have their specific design in space, not only one.
• a command /pvp. When a player does that command, and fights against another player who does the same thing, they don’t drop anything and don’t lose ammo, nanobots and shield batteries. But if a player commits a suicide (selfkills include) with /pvp, he drops his cargo and loses all of it anyway.
  When a ‘pvp’ player attacks a ‘nopvp’ player, he couldn’t do any damage to this player.
  When a ‘nopvp’ player attacks a ‘pvp’ player, a message tells it to players around, and the /pvp command is removed.
• in the original player control plugin, the number of cargo dropped is based on the quantity that the player had at its last backup (entry system, off a base …). Our version does a calculation based on the amount at the time of death of the player. It’s better for chasing a player who just stoled weapons on wrecks.

Thanks to Kidsquale who did that great job. And, of course, Thanks to M0tah, V0dka and Cannon who develop FLHook plugin !
If someone wants some information, or wants to try our modified version of player control plugin, just ask.

For sure, I’ll do this next week, but for now, I’ve got exams, and I’m running out of time

we found another problem that disturbs us a little bit in our work on FLSES, you can’t access any of your admin commands via telnet.

Take a look at thefollowing tempban plugin functions on how to do it:

EXPORT bool ExecuteCommandString_Callback(CCmds* classptr, wstring wscCmd)
{
     returncode = NOFUNCTIONCALL;  // flhook needs to care about our return code

     if(IS_CMD("tempban")) {

         returncode = SKIPPLUGINS_NOFUNCTIONCALL; // do not let other plugins kick in since we now handle the command

         CmdTempBan(classptr, classptr->ArgCharname(1), classptr->ArgInt(2));

         return true;
	}

    return false;
}

and for an entry in the consoles help command:

EXPORT void CmdHelp_Callback(CCmds* classptr)
{
     returncode = DEFAULT_RETURNCODE;

     classptr->Print(L"tempban <charname>\n");
}</charname> 

we may include that to our version on Sirius Hegemonia, and send it to you

EDIT: Sorry haven’t seen it’s in V1.0 of your plugin

well I guess it’s a bug with our version then

None of the admin commands of your plugin works from the console or remotely

Although we are using a modified v0.3
Maybe we should modify v1.0 and use that one

Ladwin wrote:
Finaly, we did it.

This is our modification of Cannon’s player control plugin :
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If someone wants some information, or wants to try our modified version of player control plugin, just ask.

Is still an offer valid? I wanna try it. Or is the public one same?

So far with current public available I got 2 small problems:
1. I made new scanner which only one ship has it (nomad fighter) and is available trough /restart command. Also it suppose to be used for rep-fixer which through plugin I can set it as item that cant be lost/seen.

This doesn’t work!

2. The odd thing is now present with pimping lights. As I was convinced that involving buyable engines to the mod and thus revealing invisible hardpoint in game the lights cant be pimped.
But now, even after removing engines from mod I still cant get full setup shown!

(Eagle in this case)

Suddenly it stopped to work in full!

For 1. case is maybe the addon = ge_s_scanner_03, internal, 1 as no external hp type of item? I tried also mounted/unmounted settings.

NOTE: Im not in rush and this isnt on fire, so easy - other important stuff 1st to be solved.

THANK YOU ALL !

Back to story.
Sry all and especially Cannon who is busy with 1.6.1 but with this 2 things left to solve (look previous post) lets focus on 1st.
I attached all relevant evidence which concerns this control.
Some of details:

• On server, nomad faction players (not listed in rep list) which holds place of fc_f_grp cant fix permanently hostile reputation towards civilian factions.
• Even changes to empathy.ini

 <data file="DATA\MISSIONS\empathy.ini" method="sectionreplace">[RepChangeEffects]
group = fc_f_grp

 <dest>event = object_destruction, -0.030000
event = random_mission_success, 0.140000
event = random_mission_failure, -0.045000
event = random_mission_abortion, -0.067500</dest> 
<source>
event = object_destruction, 0
event = random_mission_success, 0
event = random_mission_failure, 0
event = random_mission_abortion, 0</data> 
```not do a trick.

Any suggestion why?