Base Commands

• Added "sh_listgags" command to print all gagged players to the console.

• Team preference can now be accounted for during team optimisation. Set the "TeamPreferences.CostWeighting" to one of "LOW", "MEDIUM" or "HIGH" to control how strongly to consider team preference. Higher values may result in slightly more imbalanced teams, but should better respect team preferences.
  
• Improved behaviour when team preference weighting is "NONE" to no longer ignore potential swaps when players have a team preference but are not on the team they want.
  
• Team preferences are now automatically set whenever a player intentionally joins a team using either console commands or walking through a team door.
  
  • This is set even if they cannot yet join the given team.
    
  • This preference is reset at the end of a round.
    
  • The existing team preference option is used as a default if no team has been selected.
• The vote menu now displays the current team preference if one is set.

• Fixed the name filter plugin not always renaming players correctly.

• Fixed script errors in server rate commands.

• Fixed error when shuffling if debug logging is enabled.

Adverts

• Triggered adverts can now specify a game state filter.

• Altered the format of the warning message when enough players are present to kick and "KickOnConnect" is not enabled to no longer use the vanilla AFK message.

• Fixed rate settings not applying correctly on the high rate alpha build and for any future changes to default rates, and moved them to their own "Rates" section of the config.
  
• Added "Rates.ApplyRates" option to control whether rate values in the config should be applied or not. Set this to false to always use the default rates.

• Updated "sh_teamstats" to indicate when the shuffling algorithm has been modified, and to show the number of players that got their preferred team in the last shuffle.

• Fixed votes "passing" when the server becomes empty.

• Fixed vanilla votes being blocked when no default group exists.

• Fixed an error in the badges plugin when checking forced badges with user data yet to load.

Adverts

• Added new advert triggers:
  
  • "COMMANDER_LOGGED_IN"
    
  • "MARINE_COMMANDER_LOGGED_IN"
    
  • "ALIEN_COMMANDER_LOGGED_IN"
    
  • "COMMANDER_LOGGED_OUT"
    
  • "MARINE_COMMANDER_LOGGED_OUT"
    
  • "ALIEN_COMMANDER_LOGGED_OUT"
    
  • "COMMANDER_EJECTED"
    
  • "MARINE_COMMANDER_EJECTED"
    
  • "ALIEN_COMMANDER_EJECTED"
• Each of the new triggers may be formatted with the commander's name using "{CommanderName}".

• Badges can now be forced[github.com] by adding a "ForcedBadges" entry to either a user or group.

• Eject votes can now have different percentages[github.com] of the team required depending on how long a commander has commanded in the current round.

• Added an option to make the outer chat follow the chatbox when moved.

• Players nominating a map that has conditions that may mean it does not appear are now informed that conditions exist.

• Players will no longer be auto-assigned to a team when both playing teams are empty.

• NS2 votes can now be blocked for users/groups by assigning permissions of the form "sh_ns2_<votename>". See the wiki for a list[github.com].

Adverts

• Advert cycles and individual adverts can now be started/stopped at specific system times/dates[github.com] using the "SYSTEM_TIME" trigger type.

• Fixed chat commands accepting too many possible characters to be triggered. They can now only be triggered by either "!" or "/".

AFK Kick

• Any activity now immediately prevents a player from being eligible for kicking when using "KickOnConnect" and strict mode, rather than requiring activity relative to the time AFK.
  
• Fixed a rare script error when attempting to move players into spectate/ready room.