[bf1942] Missing event: InitiateVote(playerId,voteType)

["Einar S. Idsø"]

Great, thanks! I'll tell our admins to shut their pieholes and pay
attention to the messages then :D

(I would still like the event though, and enable logging of votes... ;))

Einar


Giel van Schijndel wrote:
> Well unless this sentence doesnt read out the name of the voter it does
> show the voter (yah whatever crazylogic :-P ):
> ETBF//Mortis has initiated a kickvote against Porlen[JPN]
> 
> And it is already impossible to vote more than one time in I believe 5
> mins or so.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Mortis
> European Tactical Battlefield Forces
> 
> 
> Einar S. Idsø schreef:
> 
>>According to what I'm hearing, it's not. But I am unable to join a
>>server and test myself over the next couple of weeks (only access to old
>>laptop with GForce2go), so I can't say for sure.
>>
>>In any case it would be nice to have an event for this so that we can
>>autokick people that start three votes within 30 seconds, or people that
>>kickvote admins :)
>>
>>Einar
>>
>>
>>David Stevens wrote:
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>>>I was pretty sure it said in game that "so and so started a mutiny vote"
>>>ect.
>>>
>>>Is it not there with kick?
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: "Einar S. Idsø" [mailto:esi at itk.ntnu.no] 
>>>Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 8:51 AM
>>>To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>>>Subject: [bf1942] Missing event: InitiateVote(playerId,voteType)
>>>
>>>In BF 1942 and BFV there was no way to see who started votes, not from
>>>inside the game nor from server logs. Therefore, it was common to turn
>>>off voting on many servers, so that smacktards weren't able to votespam.
>>>
>>>It seems there is no way to figure out who is voting in BF2 either,
>>>unfortunately. I see no events onto which we may hook (except a
>>>VoteEvent which seems to be hidden from our use - see
>>>http://bf2.fun-o-matic.org/index.php/Event_Reference). Would it be
>>>possible to make such an event available to us, so at the very least we
>>>can get a log of who starts votes (sometimes votes are used to get rid
>>>of admins, something which can be VERY frustrating since you don't have
>>>any way of figuring out who to kick). we could then also choose to have
>>>text written to the screen indicating who initiated the vote, as is
>>>common in other games.
>>>
>>>Hope this is somehow possible. Or if it already is, please advice :)
>>>
>>>Einar
>>>
>>>
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