churchill

So while roaming about on a freeroam server, I noticed that it didn't appear that you could get into the fuel Depot on foot? you can only get inside by jetpack or heli etc..and go over the fence? Is there any way of scripting the gates to open, or would it need some kind of Warp point marker (sorry, I'm a n00b, so don't know what the correct terminology would be) to jump the user from outside the gate to inside the gate? I guess the delay in the warp would make it a bit rubbish anyway, but would the warp also work if the user was in a vehicle? e.g. could they reappear on the other side of the gate? The reason I ask is because it would make for a nice location in a gamemode of some sort, with it's stairs, lots of places to hide behind, and helicopter pad, etc.

Other than randomly stumbling across threads on here regarding RP/RPG servers - is there a decent list of some of the better RP/RPG MTASADM servers, perhaps with a list of features of each? I guess it would be cool to know if they're public released gamemodes/scripts or whether their private. I don't mind either way, but I guess it's interesting to know. Basically I wanna know if there is one that does it all, or whether they do all different things. If I can't find one that suits what I would want then I'll have to start doing my own, bit by bit, but if I know there's already a top notch one out there that has everything I could want, then I won't need to bother as I'm not going to re-invent the wheel Plus it means I can start work on a different gamemode instead.

I have Vista here and it generally works, but I've noticed it does have moments where it will crash at the menu like you've said - not sure what causes it, but it's certainly not every time, thankfully.

Store them in an XML file(?) So what, you have a list of valid names that anyone can use and get Clantag access? I think not I'm a n00b here, so excuse me if I've got this wrong - I've not actually started scripting yet but given what I'm reading in the wiki, I would assume that you would make use of Account functions on the server to securely tell whether a user belongs to a clan? Obviously you would need to verify that they belong to the clan first, e.g. the user would register on the server using addAccount etc, and then they apply to become part of a clan. It would make sense that you then need an Admin or "1st officer" of the clan to accept them into it, as you would expect in any clan/gang. This clan membership could then be stored against the User's Account, using setAccountData(userAccount,"clanMembership") or whatever you want your key to be called. When the user logs in, instead of using their nick to verify them, it would actually require the user to login (with username/password), at which point you can then check getAccountData(userAccounts, "clanMembership") to return whether the user belongs to the clan you want them to be part of. Once you know if they belong to the clan or not, kick them if their nickname gives the impression that they are, by using the pattern matching that was mentioned earlier in the thread.