Features

Here's a list of B3 features. We've divided our features into core features, core plugin features and some of the features that 3rd party plugins bring. With the ability to create your own plugins, the possibilities are endless. Let's not go there in this feature list.

All commands can be issued while you're ingame! No need to alt-tab and use a GUI or program interface that is not linked to your gameclient, nope, ingame, right there where you are gaming!

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Core features

Technical features

  • Can read game log files live for Quake 3 based games such as the Call of Duty series, WoP, Smokin Guns, Open Arena, Enemy Territory etc.
    • Can read gamelogs on the same file system and over the network (FTP / FTPS / HTTP / HTTPS)
  • Direct communication with the gameserver through rcon sockets for the Frostbite engine (BattleField Bad Company2 and Medal of Honor 2010).
  • Direct communication with the gameserver through an asynchronous socket connection for the HomeFront engine
  • Stores all player related information in a MySQL database
  • Stores all issued warnings, kicks, tempbans and bans in the database to keep track of players history

Practical features

  • Comes with 8 different user groups and levels
    • Super admin
    • Senior admin
    • Full admin
    • Admin
    • Moderator
    • Regular
    • User
    • Guest
  • You can assign players to a group
  • You can assign commands and abilities to each group
  • You don't have to give your RCON password to your clan members, B3 deals with access control
  • You can use partial name matches, you don't need to know the exact name, if more matches are found, B3 will present you a list with possible players for you to pick from

Depending on the level as configured you can:

  • kick a player or a group of players at once
  • (temp)ban a player or a group of players at once (even if the player is not online!)
  • warn a player (3 warning means kick/tempban)
  • send serverrules to a player or all players
  • lookup a player that is not connected, but in the database and penalize or unban
  • enable/disable automatic functions from within the game
  • restart the bot, reload the configs or pause the bot for a period of time
  • spank a player
  • check when a player was last online
  • find clientinfo such as ip address, guid, first connection time etc.
  • do several tests such as admintest, warntest, leveltest etc
  • extract baninfo or warninfo for a player
  • clear a players warnings

Core plugin features

Are you tired of those guys that come on your server while no admin is online and push your server down the popularity ladder? Here are the core plugins that add automated features. These features either check for misbehaving players and penalize them, or they add positivity to your server.

Censorplugin watches your server for racism, faul language or other language (mis)behavior. 3 warnings means an appropriate tempban length. This length can be related to severity by linking them to different warnings.
Spamplugin checks if players are spamming your server chat. Warns them to stop spamming and penalize appropriately after 3 warnings.
Advplugin displays your important information or community RSS feed items to your playercrowd at regular intervals. It can also display the top players in XLRstats ranking for your server.
Welcomeplugin can send new players a warm welcome, or your returning players a 'good to see you again' message. Adds a personal touch to your server. Different levels are supported, even personal greetings are customizable for higher level members if you like.
Tkplugin keeps track of teamkill and teamdamage information and penalizes player accordingly.
Statusplugin can store current playerinformation and serverinformation in a status.xml file (store it locally or remote) or even in the database. It represents an actual status of the server
Statsplugin can keep track of simple mapstats for your players, the stats are not stored, so they are gone when the maps ends or the player disconnects.
Pingwatchplugin keeps an eye on your player pings (when available). It sends out a warning ingame when a playerping is higher than you like it to be.
Punkbusterplugin adds a few extra facilities to punkbuster enable gameservers, like rebuilding of the PB banlist from the B3 penalty database. (Don't use this when you are using a streaming or shared bans feature by other 3rd party toolsor communities!)

3rd Party plugin features

Here's just a few of the many features that are added by 3rd party (external) plugins. Plugins were created to add game specific features or just features because they can be done.

XlrstatsXLRstats plugin is a statistics collecting plugin that also has a webfront available so you can add playerstats to your community. 'You make the kill, we calculate your skill'. More information available at www.xlrstats.com
PowerAdminPowerAdmin is a series of plugins that are available for several games (Not all games though!). Poweradmin translates known and available engine specific commands to B3 commands. This way you can level the game specific rcon commands for your moderators and admins. Also in some versions of PowerAdmin additional functionality is included, such as teambalancer or matchmode switchers. It all depends on the game PowerAdmin was developed for.
Countryfilter is a GeoIp based plugin that announces a players country on connection. It can also allow or deny countries just like the allow/deny mechanism in the Apache webserver. Geowelcome plugin is a variation on the welcome plugin which ads country info to a connecting player. (These plugins are only able to function if the gameserver communicates a player IP address to B3)
Translators plugin provides a translation layer using the Google Translate API. You can use it to translate foreign chat messages to your prefered language. Are you tired of players that just won't listen to what you say to them? Answering 'No speak English'... This plugin enables you to translate your message to the language the player does understand.
Echelon is the complete player investigation webfront for B3. Want to see how your playercrowd behaves? This is your online tool to investigate and control.

These features have also been developed in several plugins: 

logging ingame chat to the database (chatlogger) - autoresponses to chat messages (chat) - disable certain weapons/perks (antinoob) - keep track of sequential headshots (aimbotdetector) - share bans among communities (banlist + echelon) - tweet your bans (bantweeter) - execute server configs based on gametype and/or mapname (config manager) - tag suspicious users for other admins to know (follow suspicious users)  - link gamers to forum profiles (forumlink) - link to mumble server (mumble) - IRC connector (irc) - schedule rcon commands like cron does (scheduler) - initiate and vote for kick or map (voting)...

and many, many more.

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