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#shootmania.wars on QuakeNet (irc.quakenet.org) now has a new pickup bot, web page ( http://www.smpickup.com ), and a few password-protected servers for ELITE and BATTLEWAVES game modes.

Someone suggested that I make a separate channel for pickup games (i.e. perhaps #smpickup), but for the moment, pickup games will be launched through the bot in #shootmania.wars. After beta, if Shootmania has enough popularity and we decide to use #shootmania.wars just for clan matches/scrims, then all operations will probably be moved to #smpickup or somewhere else.

Check it out -> http://www.smpickup.com

Nice, I hope I get someone to try it in the evening.

I'll give it a try this evening

Make a Joust server for scrims, and 2-3 Heroes servers.

I like the bot and I like that he offers a TS server. It works as a charm.

But It feels like it would be better if the bot told that the game has started in public channel as it is now.
But he would only tell password/server in private, and only to those people whom are involved.

That's some complex coding you're asking for.

kalstrams wrote:That's some complex coding you're asking for.

It's been done for basically every other PUG system... I guess lack of a console to give commands to the server (change password/scores/maplist) is what's been hindering it for Shootmania atm.

There must be an access interface to server, If not console, then something else.

There is certainly an API to do it built into the server! It's an XMLRPC API, which has a bit more of a "barrier to entry" than a regular console (i.e. you can't just connect to it in-game), but is very easy to use with various scripts

Here's the full methods list of commands you can send: http://methods.xaseco.org/methodstm2.php

Presumedly, when a game is ready, the bot could send a request to the API to SetServerPassword("some-randomly-generated-password"). Once the match has ended (which the bot can receive an event for, using either the ManiaPlanet.EndMap or ManiaPlanet.EndMatch callbacks), it can then send a SetServerPassword("") request to remove the password.

You could also conceivably allow the players to choose a map, choose the # of matches to play, choose game settings, etc. With the ManiaPlanet server API, the possibilities are quite endless

Perfect.
Come on guys, do something similar to what allready exist for other(s) FPS (I don't have enough time to work on it myself).