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No server rejoin after player death

by Buddy Lednum · in Torque Game Engine · 01/07/2004 (11:46 pm) · 5 replies

I have been searching the forums and have yet to find even a partial topic relating to this...

Is there a way to keep a player from rejoining a mission once his character is killed ?

This is for a multiplayer game with teams, and i need to keep a player from rejoining once that player has been eliminated.

Once the mission is complete though the player should be allowed to join the next mission.

I would be greatful for any help or at least a starting point.

Thanks,
BL, ISGames
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Torque Owner Harold "LabRat" Brown
#1
01/08/2004 (12:43 am)
The only way to do this 100% of the time would be if you had a login server of some kind that assigned each person a Unique Identifier. When they joined a game it would look up their ID and keep track if they have died during the current mission or not. If they have do not allow them to spawn a new character.

Using a combination of a login server and a Unique ID you could then prevent someone from quitting and re-joining the server to get a "new life". You could also use a GUID to keep people from changing teams by quitting and rejoining.

Torque 3D Owner Phil Carlisle
#2
01/08/2004 (12:44 am)
Look in game.cs, thats where you need to play. All you need is to find where it creates a player and have some counter check which gets reset on a map cycle per player.

Torque 3D Owner Phil Carlisle
#3
01/08/2004 (12:49 am)
Labbie, I suspect this is more of a counterstrike thing, where there is a mission time and he simply wants people to stay dead during that time, but respawn at the beginning of the next time.

Its just a simple flag value to say "You have a life to lose" which you can set to false (when someone dies, or if they join whilst the game is in progress).

At the beginning of the mission warmup time, you set all connected clients to havelife = true

And simply set any new connects (or anyone who dies) to false.

Then if someone wants to spawn, you do a check (if havelife == true) and if that fails, dont spawn em.

Torque Owner Harold "LabRat" Brown
#4
01/08/2004 (10:15 am)
Perhapse the use of re-join threw me off... I was presuming the use of what you described. Thought he was looking for a way to keep people from bypassing that.

Torque Owner Buddy Lednum
#5
01/08/2004 (7:02 pm)
Kewl... thats just what i needed...
It is using an sql database for part of the front end... so i can just make it send a boolean to a field... and after death it would change it until the mission ended... then it would reset all players... i have it right on the tip of my brain... thanks for the input... it gives me a few directions to try...
it's funny how others can come up with such a simple answer ... i was making it over complicated... i am greatful for the new eyes taking a look... again thanks to all for their time.... when i do get a final solution i will post it so others can use it ... thanks again