times messages?

(incin) #1

I heard from a friend that a server had the timed message system working in their brink server. Like have it say something every 5 minutes or so. Can someone help me with this or is the cvar still inactive?

(togsj777) #2

there’s no game server based function to do a regular rotation of messages. the MOTD vars are not active yet and i dont know if they’d be rotated anyway if they were.

Our TOG servers have a 24/7 rcon running that sends rcon “say” commands to the servers using a cron job that runs once per minute

you could always try explicits rcon tool as it does message rotation but you have to have it running all the time for the messages to be sent.
http://www.trigguh.net/brinkrcon/index.php

(Crytiqal) #3

MOTD states “Message of the Day”, which is shown when someone joins the server.

g_banner are rotating banner messages

(incin) #4

yeah i tried the g_banner but it didnt seem to work would you post a config of it if you have it working please?

(Crytiqal) #5

g_banner isn’t functioning, srry.

You can create a cronjob like suggested, that sends a message to the server via rcon every minute.

(togsj777) #6

[QUOTE=Crytiqal;357878]

g_banner are rotating banner messages[/QUOTE]

so assuming g_banner was working how is it used? if i wanted 4 messages rotating how do i set that up and how do i specify time interval between messages?

thanks:)

(DrD3ath) #7

MOTD is supposed to be working after yesterday’s update. HOWEVER, I would strongly suggest holding off on the update until SD have worked out the issue that has stopped many servers from booting up after this update.

See this thread. http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29648

Changelog is here http://www.splashdamage.com/content/latest-brink-pc-update-brings-stopwatch-improvements-motd-and-more

(Crytiqal) #8

g_banners “4”
g_bannertime “15”
g_banner1 “texttexttext”
g_banner2 “texttexttext”
g_banner3 “texttexttext”
g_banner4 “texttexttext”

Something like that.
Just type:

g_b <tab> and it should show all the commands available in console.