[REQ] Improved Mute

[DazzaJay]

basically, i, and probably many other people, would like an "Improved Permanant Mute Script"

for these reasons:

the one in the admin panel is buggy at best, like heres a great example of its most common bug...

Basically, somone will be spamming the chat with crap, and i will mute them.

For ME, thier chat messages stop, I dont receve any more Spammage from the fool.

Problem is, all his messages Still get sent to the IRC relay, and the other people in the room.

So its less of a "Mute" and more of an "Ignore"

So, what i am requesting is to take Mute to the next level.

Like bind the O key to bring up a menu, and in it have a "Players in game" box, a "Players Muted" box and 2 buttons "Mute" and "Unmute"

so i could just go in, click the name, click mute, thier name goes into the "Muted Box"

but, what happens on the Muted players end is thier Chatbox open buttons (T and Y) get Unbound, so they cannot even open the chatbox.

this will solve the issue of people still hearing somone after that person is muted, it will also satop the IRC relay relaying thier spam after muted.

it would have to save to a file, the players serial, so if they quit and rejoin, it re-apply's the mute.

Anyone think they can make this much needed script? please do.

[eAi]

Unbinding the chatbox won't reliably work, they can just rebind it themselves.

What you really want to do is just modify the irc bot to check isPlayerMuted before relaying it.

[DazzaJay]

that does not stop the fact that everyone else in the game can still see the chat messages.

[lil Toady]

i've already posted several times in other threads that it's my fault the admin one doesn't always work, it's already fixed in the next version. (Changelog: https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p=resources&s=description&id=1). It breaks when some scripts are modifying player's messages, like adding nick colors to the chat

[DazzaJay]

im currently using the version in the downloads section.

and i have no scripts that change names colours as far as i know

[lil Toady]

Yeh, that version is not released yet cause i could not test it properly due to my pc being broken

[DazzaJay]

ah, ok, well, any ETA on a release date?