FL Server Manager Advice
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Can someone put me on the right track for a new FL Server manager?
We’ve been using IonCross 5.1 and FL Shell so far.
Where should we go now?
We would like to have:-
1. Server management with autorestart on crash, and maintenance restarts 24 hourly.
2. Banking so players can bank money or transfer to another character
3. in-game banner messages
4. restart templates so players can choose starting ship/faction
5. Message control so we don’t get thousands of “player x killed by player y” messages.What is our choice and pros/cons please?
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FLHook because it’s free and has great backup, especially on this forum, other option is FLAC which you have to pay for, also has great backup and i personally have been using it for years now and swear by it. FLAC does what you want and a bucketload more, FLHook also does a load of interesting stuff as well
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I didnt try it yet, but what about the Discovery Server manager from Cannon?
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1. We use CDlite to:
- restart the server, both daily and if FLServer crashes.
- in game banner messages
- tracking IP addresses
2. We use flhook-plugin version:
- to control “player x killed by player y” messages
- we use the givecash plugin (which includes a /drawcash command) for ingame banking; it’s a ilttle crude but it works okay for us. I believe CDlite also has in game banking but I don’t know how that works.
- several servers use the restart plugin for player restart templates (although we don’t on the discoverygc server)
3. We use DAM for server & account management:
- We use this to monitor server performance and manage player accounts.
If you’re looking for the easy way, I’d recommend FLAC. It does pretty much all of the above in one easy to use package. I don’t actually use FLAC but I have tried the demo and liked it - a minor downside is that you have to pay a little bit for it - on the upside Eagle fixes stuff rather quickly and it is easy to setup.
If you don’t choose FLAC, then there are several flhook versions around, I’d recommend either Motah’s FLAK88 one or Wodka’s flhook-plugin one.
Here’s the link to the flhook plugin version: http://forge.the-starport.net/gf/project/flhook/
There are now 14 plugins publically available for the flhook-plugin version: http://forge.the-starport.net/gf/project/flhook
/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=2Note that both DAM and CDlite work best when connected to flhook.
I’m working on a new version of dam and some more plugins and hopefully release all of this soon. I intend to add server restart functions into DAM and move the in game banner messages into a plugin.
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At me too desire: to do maintenance of a server more often than 6 hours, for example three hours…
Is solution FLAdmin.exe ? -
Well thank you guys, appreciate the great response.
I’ll go do some reading, but carry on with comments to help me decide.
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here i am waiting to be acepted here http://forum.colourselite.co.uk/ this place might hold all the answers.
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I forgot about FLSM, the chap at Colours Elite is very easy to talk to and helpful.
uuuuuhh… that didn’t read very well, on second reading! – I don’t mean you other server-manager proggers aren’t, of course!!