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[Ice_]

Hello!

I'm currently hosting a Left 4 Dead versus server. I've been trying to fix so that players can contact me or anyone else in an IRC channel, so I found IRC Relay that is a sourcemod plugin. It worked, sort of... but it's so buggy I removed it today - there has to be a better solution!

So I was thinking, what if I install a java IRC client and point the motd.txt to it, so people could just chat in there if necessary? I knew it was a long shot and I suspected it wouldn't work, the in-game browser doesn't support java applets.

So now I got one last idea and that is to have a link on the website the motd.txt is pointing to and when they click it in-game, their original browser should pop up (the game will lose focus of course... anyone got any better idea than this - bring it on ). I'm pretty sure I've seen a similar thing in another server's motd where it brought up my original browser, I could have remembered it wrong though :/.

Well, if someone got a better idea how to make the players able to contact admins outside the game, please enlighten me .

Thanks in advance!

/Ice_

[FearTX]

Ice_ Wrote:Hello!

I'm currently hosting a Left 4 Dead versus server. I've been trying to fix so that players can contact me or anyone else in an IRC channel, so I found IRC Relay that is a sourcemod plugin. It worked, sort of... but it's so buggy I removed it today - there has to be a better solution!

So I was thinking, what if I install a java IRC client and point the motd.txt to it, so people could just chat in there if necessary? I knew it was a long shot and I suspected it wouldn't work, the in-game browser doesn't support java applets.

So now I got one last idea and that is to have a link on the website the motd.txt is pointing to and when they click it in-game, their original browser should pop up (the game will lose focus of course... anyone got any better idea than this - bring it on ). I'm pretty sure I've seen a similar thing in another server's motd where it brought up my original browser, I could have remembered it wrong though :/.

Well, if someone got a better idea how to make the players able to contact admins outside the game, please enlighten me .

Thanks in advance!

/Ice_

HTML shoutbox in the MOTD?

[Ice_]

What do you mean by that?

I programmed a PHP script and made a small form where the player could enter a text and send it to an IRC channel, however it turns out you can't even use textboxes properly in-game - it does show but you can't edit it. So I've just made a button they can click on. It would have been nicer if they could have written the reason why they need an administrator's attention.

Hmm :/.

[FearTX]

I ahd a friend that used one of these on his motd for TF2. it worked well. I dont know how it would work for your application.

http://www.shoutmix.com/main/

[Ice_]

I'm not so sure it would work, I've already tried textboxes in the in-game browser and you can't edit them.

EDIT: Is it possible it's related to L4D? Hmm..