Message of the Day

Overview

Provides a basic message of the day when a player joins your server. Players can accept it to no longer see it which will be saved between sessions.

Players with access to sh_showmotd will not be shown the MotD on connect.

The HTML MotD will look like this (obviously loading your set URL instead):

Config

The default config file should look something like this:

{
    "URL": "http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/",
    "Mode": "TEXT_ONLY",
    "Delay": 5,
    "MessageText": [ "Welcome to my awesome server!", "Admins can be reached @ mywebsite.com", "Have a pleasant stay!" ],
    "MessageColour": [ 255, 255, 255 ],
    "Accepted": {
        "123456": true
    },
    "__Version": "1.3"
}

The file should be called "MotD.json" and should be placed in the directory defined as your plugin config directory (default is config://shine/plugins).

Modes

The MotD plugin has three modes available:

1. Text based only (TEXT_ONLY). Shows your set messages to players that join.
2. Web page only (WEBPAGE_ONLY). Opens your set web page when players join.
3. Hybrid (TEXT_ON_CONNECT). Shows your set messages to players that join, but opens your set web page when they open the MotD from the vote menu or using !motd.

Option	Description
Mode	Choose one of the modes above.
URL	If Mode is set to 2, this is the URL that will be loaded as the MotD.
MessageText	Contains the lines of text you wish to display to the client. This should not exceed 5 lines, otherwise some of it may be cut off.
MessageColour	Sets the colour of the MOTD text. Values are R, G, B colours, between 0 and 255.
Accepted	A list of all players that have accepted the MotD. You can manually add players to it if you want.
Delay	The time in seconds to wait after a player connects before showing them the MotD.

Commands

Command	Chat Command	Arguments	Description
sh_motd	!motd	N/A	Shows the MotD to yourself.
sh_acceptmotd	!acceptmotd	N/A	Accepts the MotD so you no longer get shown it on join.
sh_showmotd	!showmotd	<player>	Shows the MotD to the given player.