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>
This plugin looks promising with the default removal of /f chat from the newest factions update. But I do agree, it really needs to be global for faction chat but still able to have Essentials Chat radius public chat so people won't spam. Also, is it possible to change the chat commands from config to /f c instead of /fc?
I updated FactionChat today, and I got this error.
http://pastebin.com/5ct7K5bU
It has to do with "an invalid plugin.yml". Please check this out and fix this please.
@matagin
I'll see if I can increase the priority of the plugin. I should in theory fix this
Hi james. Whenever you set a chat radius in EssentialsChat, typing in faction or ally chat doesn't show up. So basically, I need to disable global chat but still have the various faction chat modes to be global.
@LuizGu
use /ff message maybe. it seems that livechat is overwriting all chat so there for there isn't much i can do. (to me it seems like LiveChat was poorly made)
I can't talk in faction chat because of livechat plugin... is there a way to fix it?
FactionChat v1.610 has been uploaded
Changes are:
@megasnipez_
Yeah the next release will have it :D i'm just testing it atm
Can you add Truce chat for the new factions then ill use this plugin
@joshua2013007
Yes, my plugin supports 1.6.1
and I will be uploading a new version too that will say so.
Does this plug-in support 1.6?
@james137137
I figured out the issue. Whenever you set a chat radius in EssentialsChat, typing in faction or ally chat doesn't show up.
@Matt19901
the JrMod, Mod, SrMod, JrAdmin, Admin stuff?
yeah... that was designed for the server i'm admin on (lolnet.co.nz). We just use essentials group manager for that.
@james137137
ah i am think you are misunderstanding me i mean the perfix for the ranks you are in the perms file
@Matt19901
I think with the prefix for public chat it would be better to use Factions built in one
If possible can you get prefix for the names in as fast as you can please i like this chat and do not want to move to a different chat plugin and i possible like towny have the faction they are in in front of their name in the public chat?
@matagin
i'll have to retest it but it should work perfectly with and without EssentialsChat. but i will test it and fix it.
Does FactionChat not work with EssentialsChat? I am using the latest dev version of EC and FC. It shows the message that chat mode has been changed when I type /f c a for example but when I type it prints to local chat. When I remove EssentialsChat it works fine. I would like to use both EC and FC if possible.
@mrchasez
the config is quite different now. could you try backing-up the config and removing it from the plugin/factionchat folder and then reload/restart the server then use the default config file for 1.59.
@james137137
In the latest version the colors don't work right. I have FactionChat set to &d (like i did in the last version) however FactionChat shows up as green. Same with Ally chat. I reverted back to 1527 and the colors are working correctly again.