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How about the ClientCommand() event then? (<a
href="http://bf2.fun-o-matic.org/index.php/Event_Reference#Command_Events">http://bf2.fun-o-matic.org/index.php/Event_Reference#Command_Events</a>)<br>
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Wouldnt that event be raised whenever someone initiates a vote? (Just
guessing this would be the most logical one)<br>
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<dt> ClientCommand(command, issuerPlayerObject, args) </dt>
<dd> This
event occurs when a game client issues certain in-game commands. The
only such commands identified so are are: command=100 means player
wants to punish teammate for teamkill; command=101 means player wants
to forgive. In both cases, args=1. This response is generated by the
player responding to an on-screen prompt caused by a call to the <code>bf2.gameLogic.sendClientCommand</code>
method.</dd>
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<div class="moz-signature"><big><font face="Verdana" size="-2"><big><!-- SGT -->Mortis<br>
European Tactical Battlefield Forces<!--<a href="http://www.theartofwarfare.net">The Art Of Warfare</a> - BF<br>
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Forrest Thiessen schreef:
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<pre wrap="">Yes, if you're playing the game, it does indeed announce who started the
vote (making it easy to start a kick vote, if necessary, to get rid of
people who abuse mutiny votes).
However, Einar's original point is still valid: there doesn't seem to be
any way to tell from Python that a vote is underway, or who started it.
. . or even if a vote is successful! With the existing events
available, all Python would see in a successful mutiny vote is a
ChangedCommander event--which could have happened due to the commander
resigning, too; if the vote is unsuccessful, you wouldn't see anything.
If you want to do comprehensive logging of what's happening in the game,
this is a major problem--it doesn't matter that players receive the
information: your game logs wouldn't show it, and couldn't show it. Same
thing if you wanted to add some admin features related to these
votes--forget it, the hooks aren't available.
This isn't the only event that's missing: want to make a mod where a
radio command causes a bomb to explode? You can't--Python has no access
to the internal RadioMessageEvent. Etc., etc. . . .
If you look at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bf2.fun-o-matic.org/index.php/Event_Reference#Mysterious_Events">http://bf2.fun-o-matic.org/index.php/Event_Reference#Mysterious_Events</a>
you'll see a long list of internal game engine events for which there is
no corresponding hook in Python. Why? It's obvious that, internally,
BF2 uses an event-driven architecture, and it looks like DICE just added
a little code to their own event handlers that calls a procedure that
checks for and dispatches to registered Python event handlers. Why not
just add that to EVERY internal game event? It would probably not be
very much work, and would make all kinds of things possible that simply
aren't possible today.
Please, DICE, make more events available. . . and why not make all of
them available?
--Forrest (aka "Woody")
Einar S. Idsø wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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:
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<pre wrap="">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:
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<pre wrap="">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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<pre wrap="">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" [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:esi@itk.ntnu.no">mailto:esi@itk.ntnu.no</a>]
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 8:51 AM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bf1942@icculus.org">bf1942@icculus.org</a>
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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bf2.fun-o-matic.org/index.php/Event_Reference">http://bf2.fun-o-matic.org/index.php/Event_Reference</a>). 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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