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>
@rtcabooservb
thanks rtcabooservb I thought that would happen. i'll fix it for Factions 2.0
Just a heads up. Broke with the upcoming factions 2.0 update. http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/factions/files/54-factions-2-0-0-mcore-6-4-0/
@james137137
yeah :D also i dont like "ally:", if you make everything configurable i will love it :D
@Nikkolo94
Glad you fixed it yourself :D I really need to make the messages more configurable than just the colour. ....After my exams....
i changed ally chat color from &a to &5 but ingame it is still light green, im using v1.52701
i did reboot,reload ectt but the color dont change :(
Edit :
Cannot load plugins/FactionChat/config.yml
org.bukkit.configuration.InvalidConfigurationException unacceptable character '�' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
in "<string>", position 1843
my bad :D fixxed
changed License to GNU General Public License version 3
@soysuva
yep thats quite easy to do just negate the permissions
e.g /mangaddp administrators -FactionChat.modChat
@james137137
then is their a way where only the owner(OP) of the server can see all chat modes? I don't want admin's to see the chat modes of others. If I have a job that I only want to talk with my mods, I don't want my admins butting into the conversation.
@scyzthe
Yep I think i can do that. At the moment I'm in my exam weeks so i wont be doing anything but i'll add this to my TODO list
Would it be possible to add the option to change how the chat messages are set up within the factionchat config file?
@mussonking
People with factionchat.adminchat can see Jradmin channel but not the other way around
so Admins can see mod chat for example. But Mods can't see admin chat.
Is there a specific permission for jradmin channel? because someone that have permission to factionchat.adminchat also see jradmin, so what the point of the jradmin channel? I would like to have separate channel so my server-admin can talk in private. Thanks alot. Awesome plugin.
It sometime happened to me, mod chat and admin chat, it was saying I was in the mod chat but was still talking in public. It got fixed on last update I think tho, or I just didnt had the bug anymore
@JohOply
I would try and create a mock up blank bukkit server and check if it's still the case with only FactionChat installed. I might be on the wrong config or another plugin is creating this problem
@james137137
When i do "/f chat" (with built-in chat), there is the message "... chat mode", but i'm always speaking in the public channel :/
@JohOply
ok let me check on 1.6.9.5. Can you tell me if there is any chat feature working in 1.6.9.5
Edit: after testing 1.6.9.5 /f c works by the look for it. could you explain to me how it is not working for you?
I use Factions's plugin for 1 year ago, and the builtin chat worked perfectly... before the 1.6.9.5.
So i search a plugin to replace the Faction Chat which doesn't work anymore
@KolbyGaubert
Plugman is essential for the modded server, not removing it to be compatible. It's doing that because I loaded the plugin in live, it does the same with a restart.
@JohOply
have you tried using the builtin Factions Chat?
i.e. Remove FactionChat and try /f c f
the Chat function in Factions 1.7 and 1.8 was removed. (reason why i made this plugin)
@james137137
Always the 1.6.9.5...
@JohOply
That sucks. what version is your Factions?
@Nikkolo94
Haven't got around to it but I have put the link of your comment to remind me on my TODO list