FactionChat
In the most recent versions of the oh so popular Factions (1.7 and above), you may have noticed that the faction chat feature was removed. Faction chat really comes in handy at times to easily talk with whole groups, whether you're planning with your allies to take down that faction you just hate that or discussing top secret plans with your clan. This plugin is there to fill in that gap and bring back this high demand feature, aiming to replicate what has now been removed from Factions.
The author of FactionChat is constantly updating to make sure that FactionChat is designed to work without any bugs and function at top-notch performance out-of-the-box.
Features.
- Faction-only, ally, truce and enemy chat modes
- Send a message to other factions, even if you're not allies with them
- Staff chat channels
- Ability to spy on all messages
- Easy to use chat-mode toggles/commands
Development Builds
Development builds of this project can be acquired at the provided continuous integration server. These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk.
Development builds can be found here
To-do/possible updates.
- Create a help command (/fc help)
- I'm always open to suggestions!
Support and like my work? Donate to keep development going.
I have spent many hours creating and perfecting this plugin for public use, and I expect many more hours still to come through updating and adding features requested by the community. You can even spare a buck or two, after all, every little bit helps! If you are unable to donate, it would still be awesome if you could let me know how the plugin is working for you and leave a thanks in the comments section.
Plugin demo: lolnet.co.nz
Author debug access.
In the v1.5 update, I have added a new config option called "AllowAuthorDebugAccess". If set to true and your server is running in online-mode, then it allows me, james137137, to use the follow commands: /fchatother, /fc jrmod, /fc mod, /fc srmod, /fc jradmin, /fc admin, /fc spy, /fc update, and /fc reload. Please note that this does not give me the ability to use any other commands. You may never even need to enable this, unless you personally need help and have invited me to test something for/with you. This feature is enabled by default, however it can easily be toggled through the configuration.
MCStats.
This plugin utilizes Hidendra's metrics system in order to keep track of the plugin's popularity, as well as other metadata. The following information is collected and sent to mcstats.org:
- Unique identifier
- Java version
- Offline/online mode
- FactionChat version
- Server version (i.e. Bukkit 1.6.4, Spigot 1.7.2)
- OS name, version and architecture
- Amount of CPU cores
- Amount of players online
- Metrics version
Opting out of this service can be done by editing the config.yml and changing MetricsOptOut to true.
Inbuilt Updater
This plugin utilizes an external version checking system, which means that the plugin makes a connection to curseforge.com and the following may occur:
- The plugins version checked
- Downloading of the plugin files
The update can only occur when a player with permission "FactionChat.Update" runs the command "/fc update" or any /FactionChat alias with "update".
FactionChat is a stable plugin that is used by about 1,400 servers worldwide; that's a lot! Thanks to everyone who make this happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xPtQvZEJBs
Repository Information for Maven Projects
<dependency> <groupId>nz.co.lolnet.james137137</groupId> <artifactId>factionchat</artifactId> <version>1.9.16</version> </dependency> <repository> <id>FactionChat-repo</id> <url>http://jenkins.lolnet.co.nz/plugin/repository/everything/</url> </repository>
New update 1.3 fixed a few bugs mainly
@lst96
Fixed in my next version (1.3) - (I hope)
@Mimikken
Fixed in my next version (1.3)
When i use /fchato <faction Name> example message, the faction seens it like this
[@Factionname] lst96: null example message
it puts null in front of all messages to another faction.
James137137
I cant change the config, even if i pull down the server, it always goes back to the old config, but i bypassed it with disabling everyones access to the spy command (which works but aint too good).
but when i go to faction chat with the /fc f command it gives me this command : Y1our chat11 mode has been changed to FACTION, <- Something is wrong, and still it wont let me see the msgs of my faction mates, but then again my allies can see our faction chat? and my own faction cant see that either.
@Mimikken
with the config file the main things you need to focus on is
AutoUpdate: & spyModeOnByDefault:
The next version will have theses on line 1 and 2. Everything else you don't need to touch as its just customizing stuff.
when you have changed spyModeOnByDefault: true to spyModeOnByDefault: false type /fc reload or just /reload if the plugin isn't letting you change the config file, try shutting down the server and then edit it
@Mimikken
/fc f is FactionOnly chat mode therefore the only ones that should be able to hear you are the online players that are in the same faction are yours.
The only time this should fail is if Factions is not 1.7 or 1.8 (or is not installed at all)
The only players that can see other factionchat/allychat (spy mode) are those with the permission "FactionChat.spy" it can be toggled in game via /fc spy but will change back to the default after re-login.
You will receive your Faction/Ally chat without "Spy:" as you its not spying
could you go in more details on what you mean by "buggy and "lols of weird things"?
Thanks
Hey again :)
Also even with spymode on, its rather buggy right now, when i try to chat to my faction using /fc f the only one who cant hear me is my faction?
Looking forward to a reply :)
hey James137137
It wont let me change the config file at all?
Everyone could read everything, so i tried to look abit into the config file and it showed that spymode was on by default? and when i tried to change it, it wont let me, whats up with that?
and it makes a lot of weird things? cant you make a very simple config file instead?
Thanks.
@Mimikken
yeah once they approve it
Thanks for a fast reply :)
I will implant this right away.
@james137137
Uploaded they are permission based
see: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/factionchat/pages/permissions/
@Mimikken
Yeah that's a good idea. (I should of thought about that awhile ago)
I will make it permission based or on config (changeable via command)
This will be added on the next version
hey james137137
i love your work here, but is there a way to disable enemy chat and the send a msg to a whole faction command?
we dont really want people having those to avoid spamming and being too rude to one another ?
Cheers mate.
@joshwenke
I have some customized output already in the config file. would you like me to expand on that?
Any way to see completely customized output messages for FactionChat? Like with tags and full control of colors and what each channel looks like? That would be epic!
Thanks for the update :)
@lokda
the public channel isn't really a channel it just the normal chat as if my plugin was disabled
Hi.
How it works with CraftIRC ? Any way to only have the public channel relayed to IRC ?
Well my downloads are growing very nicely. If you think anything is missing please feel free to suggest.
@Zombica09
it doesn't rely on heroChat. and HeroChat can't change any of its settings (use my config for that)
My plugin only requires Factions
Does this work with HeroChat?
Version 1.28 is out. http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/factionchat/files/29-faction-chat-v1-28/