In-Game Administration Tools Discussion

Greetings Space Engineers Community,

I thought I would make this post because running a large server at this time is hard to administrate at best. I would like YOU the server admins to give your feedback on what is required to make a server manageable, whether it be suggestions like the ability to teleport or be able to send pms to players. I want to hear what you have to say.


Command suggestions would be:

• Ability to teleport to other players. (/tp <players name> )
• Ability to teleport to beacons. (/tpb <Becon name>:1) NOTE: if more than 1 Beacon uses the same name then :1 or 2 or 3 and so on after the name to go to them
• Ability to teleport to coordinates (/tpxyz x:-1000 x:23940 z:3420)
• Ability to send private messages (/pm <players name> )
• Ability to Ban (/ban <player name> )
• Ability to unban (/unban <player name> )
• Ability to tempBan (/ban <player name> t:1d2h30s)
• Ability to Mute (/mute <player name> )
• Ability to change gamemode (/gm survival or creative <player name> )
• Ability to be indestructible and have infinite power (/God <player name> )
• Ability to spawn in items (/give <player name> [item:amount])

Other useful tools:

• Admin move speed changeable (easily move from one asteroid to another going 500 m/s)
• Indestructible Admin block (place beacon inside that can be protected, Also non Admins cannot place other blocks on them)
• Indestructible Admin beacon (Can only be accessed by admin and does not require power)
• Indestructible Admin Reactor (Has infinite power can only be accessed by admins)

I would also like to see another group named moderators, this group should have the ability to kick at least.

last note, as you are reading this you may think to yourself why do we need this aren't people just going to abuse these on there server. The answer would be yes people are going to abuse these tools but for Administrators like myself I feel like these tools can and will make it a more enjoyable experience for a lot more players than it will abuse. If these tools are abused on the server you are playing on ask yourself "Is this the right server for me?" These tools should never be an issue on a server with a good admin team.

 

Im not sure about spawning items and changing game modes... , And all these other frosting type tools for admins... How about we get a kill object or ship by beacon Console command and save command to start... this seems very selfish list for admins, lets get game working on the other serious issues, before your reactor is indestructible, i don't think these will be slash chat commands either more like server console commands

 

I think the easiest way is: devs should implement script system to servers (for example "lua") and community will write own scripts like commands etc, etc

 

I like this idea and support it.

 

Everything mentioned above is need to properly administrate a server. Large or small it doesn't matter the size. Right now its a nightmare trying to remove players griefing.

 

Thanks for the comment.

 

I note that you say its a very selfish list for admins but let me explain the reason for the indestructible blocks is to you can make markers on the map that cannot be griefed, for example I have a large server that requires 5 Beacons to be placed on the map now anybody can come along and destroy them thus the requirement of indestructible blocks for admins. Next I don't see why you would not have them as slash commands makes perfect sense to me. Perhaps you should have read the bottom paragraph.

 

the only one I don't see a reason for is /god, because you can just /gamemode creative yourself which would be the same thing. Everything else is very needed.

 

Its always nice to have the option, example you could give mods /god and have admins with gamemode. Just my thoughts I always like options.

 

I like all these!

 

I am glad you agree, they are highly needed even at this time.

 

Well it is what is stopping me doing a public server at the moment lack of good commands as it will be a pain in back side to stop griefers

 

Seen this yet? https://forums.keenswh.com/post/server-administration-server-map-backup-script-good-for-grief-protection-6929460

Might bring up your chances of hosting a public server.

 

I like the tool but it does not prevent grief like the commands would.