Name Management Plugin - Version 3.3 - Overview
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Overview
The Name Management Plugin regulates the names of players that
connect to your server. This can be used for a number of purposes:
- To prevent players using the default name for your game mod such
as 'Player' or 'Private', which
can lead to multiple players in the game with similar names - Player,
(1) Player, (2) Player etc. causing confusion, and to Player
sitting at the top of your server stats.
- To prevent players using very short names, such as "." which
means you don't notice their name appear on the screen when you
aim at the camping gits.
- To prevent players attempting to exploit Half-life/
Counter-strike/ Admin Mod script loop holes (many of which are
fixed anyway). Many admin commands allow you to use either a player
id, wonid or name to identify a player. Some players give themselves
a numeric name which may match another players id or wonid, hence
causing you to issue the commands on the wrong player.
- To make player names easier to read and/ or type.
- To identify players who are ghosting - i.e. can see each
others screen/chat. The plugin can modify their name with a 'LAN Tag'
to indicate who is ghosting, announce warnings to the other players,
and automatically switch on/off forced chase camera mode.
- To prevent players from changing their name whilst
connected. (personally, I wouldn't recommend this)
- If Logd is present on the server, the plugin will not alter
a players name until after they have chosen a team, so that they
get a change to see the information messages explaining why
it has happened.
Each of these functions can be independently enabled and disabled by
the admin, and a number of options can be modified to control how
stringent the restrictions are.
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