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[L.C.]

I spent from 2 to 3 hours writing this up.

myAdmin Plugin
Controls what commands a player is able to use through the bot or what class a player is settled on.

Every 'x' hours the bot will check the moderate.txt, smod.txt, and sysop.txt files and update its database.
The reason I think this would be a good plugin is because then it would allow more flexibility and sharper detail on how much power a player may have specifically. All commands must be done through the bot.

For example,
:BotName123:!myAdmin <PrivatePlayer> <Command> <Value0> <Value1> <Value2> <Value3> <Value4> <Value5> <Value6>

PrivatePlayer isn't required, it's only if you want this command private messaged to this player (a private command).
Command is obviously a command here with the */? before the command (this is to help distinguish between certain commands).
ValueX is an available placeholder for any BanG Command Prefixes, Values, etc.

Another example might be...
:BotName123:!myAdmin %tickname *prize #-13
:BotName123:!myAdmin ?bversion
:BotName123:!myAdmin MineGoBOOM *sysop

Whatever the server tells/replies back to whatever the bot does, for example, "Ban lifted," the bot will also private message back a perfect copy. For security reasons, I think the bot should have its replies begin with [ or | or something like that to prevent any manipulation or exploitation of its messenging process.
If nothing happens after entering a command, then nothing happens! The bot is much like a messenger and a regulator. This thought his my mind after thinking about the issues with the Halo zone and how I myself can prevent zone takeovers by staff and enforce it. In my zone one of the basic principals is that there can be one owner of the zone, and only one. No co-owners.
Sysops would have the ability to take over and boot me though, which would trigger me to request help from my zone host to solve this issue.

It will automatically read from the staff *.txt files in the zone to make sure things are going fine.
One of the commands would be !myAdminRefresh #. # would be a numeric value in minutes. Maximum value is 9999.
Another command would be !myAdminResync, which would force a check on the staff *.txt files.
!myAdminPower would toggle the plugin on and off.
!myAdminClass <player> <class> would assign the given class to the user. Class must be in the format of 'class_player.txt' (for example; must also have .txt).
!myAdminList would give a listing of players who have manually assigned classes (from the myAdminClass command).
!myAdminRemove <player> will remove the manually assigned class from this user and return them to whatever default class they would be using normally.
!myAdminSave will save the current database as it is.



Here's how I would imagine the INI/DAT/TXT files that control this plugin.
From myAdmin.ini

[Bak]

sounds like asss
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[Muskrat]

If you want what it sounds like you want... how would a MervBot control server commands?

[L.C.]

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[Maverick]

L.C., what you mean is a bot that does all the commands to the server and not the players themselves anymore (only through the bot)?

Are you going to put a bot into each public- and subarena then? There also needs to be about just as much bots as there are staffers.

Really, use asss.
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[L.C.]

[Cyan~Fire]

Non-AS3 zones should be non-existent. ASSS can work just like subgame, the only reason not to switch is apathy (or, as previously discussed, stupidity, but stupid people shouldn't run servers anyway).
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[BDwinsAlt]

I think zones like MG don't need to switch, they don't need anything to change. They won't switch. Other zones though, they use all of these weird bots, they should probably use AS3. I love as3. From now on I won't use anything but AS3 once Halo switches over.

[Cyan~Fire]

No, nobody "needs" to switch, but they should. It's just the stupid attitude that you shouldn't "fix what ain't broke." MG would naturally benefit from moving to ASSS after a slightly troublesome test period (which could be as short as a day if they were smart about it).