PBS VS BSC WAR: PBS VS BSC - 29/06/2025 20:30

[VVidow_Maker]

We have all had times where our squad leader isn’t issuing orders, resulting in no perks, less team play and low scores.  So I had a google and seen this plugin that will warn a squad leader if they do not issue orders within a set time frame, or are idle.  It might actually remind players that they are squad leader or get them used to issuing orders.  There is also a white list option.  Wondered what you think?

 

https://forum.myrcon.com/showthread.php?9803-SquadManager-0-9-9-2-15-Feb-2015

[Powerbits]

I like it and going to test it

[VVidow_Maker]

Super.

I think this could have fun potential, if every PBS member was a squad leader.

 

[Myx1982]

Excellent idea, please do it.  I always give orders when squad leader 🙂

[Powerbits]

Its installed… server is going to give squadleader to active squadleader

There is also a vote for squadleader , but PBS has special priviledges :

FEATURES:

Dismiss Idle Squad Leaders

With this option the plugin gives anyone else Squad Lead if the current Squad Leader is idling.The old Squad Leader stays in the Squad and a random other player from the Squad takes over Squad Lead.
At the moment the new Squad Leader will be chosen randomly.

Dismiss No Orders Squad Leaders

With this option the plugin gives anyone else Squad Lead if the current Squad Leader is giving no Squad Orders.
The old Squad Leader stays in the Squad and a random other player from the Squad takes over Squad Lead.
At the moment the new Squad Leader will be chosen randomly. For future updates there will be an option to choose the new Leader based on stats or reputation.
Please note: Only Squad Leader commands via Comme Rose can be counted as Orders.
Only on Conquest disables this feature on any other game Mode than Conquest.
Maximum waiting time for orders (minutes) determines how long the plug-in waits for Squad Orders before it will warn or remove a Squad Leaders.
If you enable Send warnings before dismiss), a Squad Leader will get your selected number of warnings before dismiss.
The interval between the warnings equals the Maximum waiting time for orders (minutes).
You can also choose whether the warnings should be shown as yell message or not.

 

 Squad Command Lead

Enable this option to give players with Reserved Slot List or VIPs (Squad Leader List) the possibility to take over the Squad Lead with !lead command in chat.
You can add VIPs to the Squad Leader List. The Squad Leader List has a higher priority than the Reserved Slot List
Additional you can allow every admin to use !lead command, regardless whether the current Squad Leader is an Admin, VIP, or a player with Reserved Slot.
Admins need the right to move players between Squads and Teams to do that.
Squad Leader List > Reserved Slot List > anyone else If a Squad Leader is on the Reserved Slot List, someone else from Reserved Slot List can NOT apply for Squad Lead but players from Squad Leader List can do.
If a Squad Leader is on the Squad Leader List, someone else from Reserved Slot or Squad Leader List List can NOT apply for Squad Lead.

Squad Command Vote

Squad members can apply for Squad Lead with !newleader command.
Everyone in the Squad will receive messages and can vote for the new Squad Leader with !accept command.
Votes needed: How many !accept votes are needed for a successful vote.
Vote duration (seconds): How long should the vote be active.
Yell vote announcement: Should the vote announcement shown as a yell message?

Squad Command Invite

You can invite players to join your Squad with !invite [playername] command.
Invitees can use !join or !deny command to accept or don’t accept the invite.
If the Squad or Team of the player who has invited you is full, Invitees will join a Waiting Queue that will move them to the Team/Squad of the player who has invited you as soon as possible.
The invitee gets the invite message on his next death.
This has the advantage the invitee won’t get spammed with yells (if enabled) and chat messages when the invitee is in combat.
It can also prevent most of the kills via admin move command because the invitee won’t get killed again if he accepts the invite while he/she is waiting to spawn.
Squad Leaders only: Only Squad Leaders can send invites to other players.
Allow Team Switches: Players can invite other players even if they are in the enemy team.
Maximum invites per round: The maximum number of invites a player can send during a round.
Send invite messages how often: Determines how often an invite message should be shown when the invitee is death.

Squad Command GiveLead

If this option is enabled, Squad Leaders can give the leadership to someone else in Squad.
Example: If you are Squad Leader use the command !givelead LumPenPacK to give player LumPenPacK Squad Lead if you are currently Squad Leader.

Squad Command Regroup

Admins with “CanMovePlayers” privileges can use this command to regroup players within a team into a new Squad.
!regroup [group of playernames] selects a group of up to 5 players who will be moved into a new empty squad.
The members of this group will be moved one by one into a new Squad once they are killed. (This will prevent a “killed by admin” death due to the admin move command kills players.)
As long as the regroup hasn’t been completed, the new Squad is set to private to prevent other players can take the slot for those players from the group who are still waiting for the Squad change.
If a player who is not part of the group is still able to join the new Squad, the plugin will remove him/her from Squad if he/she would use a slot for one of those players who are still waiting for the Squad change.
Optional setting: Only allow regroup command within an existing Squad. This means you can’t regroup players from different Squads.

Squad Unlock

Unlock all Squads feature can be used to force all Squads to be not private.

 

 

COMMANDS FOR PBS

!lead

Give you Squad Lead if you’re allowed.(Reserved Slot, Squad Leader List)

 

!unlead

Give anyone else Squad Lead if you’re Squad Leader.

 

!newleader

Start a Vote that ask everyone in Squad if you should be the new Squad Leader.

!invite [playername]

Invite a player to join your Team/Squad.

 

!join

Accept an invite.

 

!deny

Don’t accept an invite. You can’t get any more invites from the player who has invited you this round.

 

!givelead [playername]

Give [playername] Squad Lead if you are currently Squad Leader.

[Vanishy]

Good job 🙂

[VVidow_Maker]

That was quick.  Fingers crossed for it improving things.

Will the pubies be informed of this one?
!newleader

[Powerbits]

its allready on the description of our server and yes, i will add a few messages in the spambot

We tested it a bit , seems nice.  Excellent tip Aidy 🙂

[Robin Brimalm]

Some feedback on us running this plugin.

1. It spams out a lot of messages in chat.
2. Squadleader gets kicked as squadleader too fast if no orders have been given.

Can those parameters be changed?

[Powerbits]

The spam is prob the vote option… It can be disabled i suppose.

The squadleader gets around 10 minutes to give a order.. We could increase this abit

[VVidow_Maker]

It’s seems to kick around 2 mins Frank, and thus the 30 sec spam warning.  Might be usefult to keep on for today and then shorten so regulars know.

Edit – the 10 mins seems a bit long, especially on chainlink.

[VVidow_Maker]

I think it spammed 30 secs to kick in gun master.

Edit: While I was looking, is it possible to turn off things like !sniper slot spam?

[Powerbits]

Hmm ok…They did not put a gunmaster exclusion in it…maybe something to feedback to the developer…

But its nice to give peeps an option

 

About GM and sniper limit, i know…but i think we need to play it like this 🙂

[VVidow_Maker]

I haven’t noticed, but does the new squad leader get a message to inform them they now are the leader?

[Powerbits]

Have not noticed that

[Myx1982]

I think you guys might have a problem, I was made squad leader (not sure if leader was ‘demoted’ due to inactivity or left), as soon as I got notification I was squad leader I selected an objective to attack and was kicked from game straight away! 🙁 🙁

[VVidow_Maker]

Guess that just needs a request order.

The merge partially filled squads between rounds could help with the first spawn on modes like rush.  It was also help players who arn’t really aware of it’s advantages in modes like obliteration.

[VVidow_Maker]

I got demoted in my first game and took it back.  Never got kicked.  Might of been unlucky in that a PBS member joined.

[Myx1982]

Ok fingers crossed 🙂 I wasn’t breaking rules or anything lol 🙂

[Powerbits]

Indeed this plugin does not kick anybody… please provide anymore feedback so we can finetune this nice plugin.

[Powerbits]

I removed the “dynamic messages” wich did allot of spam..

[Powerbits]

I removed the “dynamic messages” wich did allot of spam..

[magicxly]

nice, but u need to repeat the order even when u r still fighting, so u will get the lead or it will take out from u with out u take notice !

[Powerbits]

Yes but normaly its set on 10 minutes (is this the case in reality?)

Besides this, all PBS can simply take the squadlead by typing !lead

[Myx1982]

I updated my punkbuster and no more kicks 😀

[VVidow_Maker]

10 mins is a little long for orders, thats probably a third of a game.  I would say 6 mins.  Are Rush/Obliteration/CTF modes set to ‘true’ to exclude them?

Have you tried the merge squads between rounds?  Be nice to get rid of 5 squads of 2/5.  Although I see it’s still in testing in the notes.

Developer said they would be back end of march fingers crossed with some developments … Force “Semi-Normal” Squad Spawn on Classic Mode.  Which I’m hoping is on squad leader only.

[Powerbits]

I think orders must be present in rush , obl or even ctf.

Squads dont merge yet

 

 

 

 

[Robin Brimalm]

They do, It says “youre now the squad leader” in chat

[VVidow_Maker]

Thanks Frank.

They do, It says “youre now the squad leader” in chat

Thanks Robin.  Wondered if it’s possible to make it another colour?

[Myx1982]

Ok guys so the kick issue was sorted with punkbuster, but I still think your plugin is not configured properly.  I was squad leader earlier and got messaged in chat saying I needed to give orders or be removed, even though I was giving orders.  I even spammed orders to a few different objectives but it made no difference and removed me :(  I also saw a couple of other squad leaders get removed who were giving orders, I think something is broken in it.

[Powerbits]

It seemed to do the job yesterday..

And you get a notification of a warning message when you are about to loose your squad leadership.

Different colours are not possible, its embedded in the game’s code

Thank you Aidy for pointing this plugin, realy good

[Robin Brimalm]

Im with you myx, noticed that too.

[Myx1982]

Like I said powerbits, I got the warning that I would lose my squad leadership even though I had been giving orders.  I then started just spamming a few orders just in case but it still removed me as squad leader after a minute or so.  Something is definitely not right somewhere…

[-Xiezz-]

Pls remove it, the plugin is irritating. If you want to be squad leader create your own squad.

useless plugin thumbs down, keep it original.

[Powerbits]

I find the idea behind it very good.. How many times do PBS member go in a squad and a visitor is squadleader?

Or you see guys spamming “requesting order”

But if the sensing of commands is so bad…that part can be disabled Then at least pbs peeps can take squadleader position by typing !lead Or you pass sq leader to whom you want.

Must provide some feedback to the developer then

 

[Powerbits]

The setting “dismiss squad leaders giving no orders” is disabled, so you will not see the warning message again.

The features that are left are:

• Squad command enforce : all people in reserved slots wich is PBS can use the command:   !LEAD

• Squad command invite: you can invite players in your squad with the command:  !invite playername

• Squad command givelead: Give the squad lead to someone else with the command:  !unlead playername

• Vote your squadleader: squadmembers can vote their squadleader by typing the command: !newleader

• And finally all squads are not private, this happens when some players join on each other in BBLOG and the squad goes private

 

 

[VVidow_Maker]

Frank, is it possible to have a screenshot of the settings?

Orders can only be detected if a Squad Leader uses Commo Rose to set Attack/Defent Orders. Commands set without a Commo Rose don’t trigger any event that could be captured.

[Myx1982]

That might be my problem then, I just press Q when aiming at objectives.

[Powerbits]

the option dimiss squad leaders giving no orders via commo rose is set off now, like i posted, thats the only option actualy

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