I thought I would have a go at creating a plugin. I haven't made one before and I thought I would give it a shot. The commands: !votetime [seconds] Sets the command vote time, compensating for expired time. Whatever you put in here is the time you see in the middle of the screen. Was going to put in !delay but I think this command is much better anyway. !pausevote [optional message/reason] !resumevote pauses the vote and displays notifications. !resettime resets the vote to the original comm vote time vt_start_buffer (20) if a player joins a team instantly after map start. 20 seconds is added to vote. if they join in 5 seconds, 15 seconds is to the vote. If they join after 20 seconds no time is added to the vote. Sometimes if a player joins too soon the vote seems too short to joining players, where as if a player joins a team late the vote can seem too long. the start buffer is like an invisible timer after map start. Maybe it is possible to set vt_start_buffer to higher values on large custom maps which take time to download, idk. vt_player_multiplier (0.5) Additional time added per player. So with the default settings on a full server 64*0.5=32 seconds are added to the vote. Games with a lot of players have more squads to organise, more voice spam and are harder to manage. Depends on EmpUtils Git repo: https://git.empiresmod.com/sourcemod/votetime
If you send me a message with your user account on https://git.empiresmod.com I'll give you a repository on the sourcemod plugin group, then it'll be more discoverable.
Added v0.2 I added an optional message to the pause, which shows in the timed notification so that players can know why the game is paused. I also added a couple of cvars. I'm currently thinking about whether vt_start_buffer should reduce time rather than add it. It would reduce the need to change the comm_vote cvar that much. let me know what you think.
Working on compatibility patch for NCEV. If NCEV detects your plugin. It will simply disable any extending if vt_paused was used at least once. Message will display once at NCEV marktime: Only the extending will be disabled...assuming that admin is taking over control of commander voting time. All other features of NCEV should still work. This will be up in next update of NCEV. If you notice any other "conflicts", just let me know Nice to see more people learning SM scripting ---
Yea I can do, another day though, just going to release my squad control plugin today and call it a night.
few requests, add a variable for how often the message appears when the vote is paused. add who extended the vote time when using !votetime. add colors like I did on my server. I can send you my file. add errors when using !pausevote, !resumevote and !votetime on an infantry map and when the vote is already finished. add the phrases to a file in addons/sourcemod/translations like many other plugins do so they can be easily accessed. Thanks.
more requests or ideas, !pausevote and !resumevote votes if players in teams agree they can vote to pause the vote and to resume it. OR if both commanders agree to pause or resume the vote.
v0.3 added !resettime added colors courtesy of Mr.X !waittime is an alias of !votetime all plugin functions now work in infantry maps as well, although the language used may not match well. added more error messages added some natives that I will use in newer versions of squadcontrol and draftpick. In response: vt_pause_notification_interval already should control the interval phrases - maybe later votes - maybe later idk admin level - just use overrides
Yeah I actually found out about overrides a couple of days after I posted this. I changed it to a custom admin level.
0.4 Fixed an issue where the infantry cvar was used on random spawn location maps(e.g. emp_bush) because the cvs spawn in late.
0.5 Added Pause HUD text and sounds Added some countdown beeps but are disabled by default until i can find some good ones. Added some forwards which new version of empstats needs.
No it shows in the middle of the screen, thank you for letting me know about that. Actually you're right i forgot to include the gamedata custom overrides in this version. I will have to release another.
OK that's fixed. I will have to try to get sourcemod devs to add empires to the list of supported games for HudMsg. Don't know what the correct channel to do that is atm. The custom override should work fine though.
Well since we're talking about getting the sourcemod assets updated, keep in mind the offsets sourcemod have are outdated. So whoever gets in contact with sourcemod developers should also provide them with the updated offsets.
