How do I demote someone and not have auto promote promote them back?

[conviper30]

I have auto promote installed as well as ULX and Utime.

Let's say for example these are my ranks I have on my server:

Client - 0-4 hours
Respected - 5 hours
Member - 10 hours
Senior Member - 20 hours

Someone ranked up to Senior Member by playing on the server and started to abuse the perks that are associated with the user group. So I want to demote them down to Client, once I do that auto promote promotes them back to Senior Member due to their time allotted on the server. How do I get around the auto promote and Utime affecting this? I love auto promote but it is a pain when trying to get this to work.

[iViscosity]

As far as I know, there's no simple workaround for this. If anything, I'm fairly certain you'd need to edit the actual code of APromote, especially around this area:

Code: Lua

1. local function checkPlayer( ply )
2.         local plyhours = math.floor( ply:GetUTimeTotalTime() / 3600 )
3.         local usrgrp = ply:GetUserGroup()
4.         local Rank = ""
5.         local Hours = 0
6.  
7.         for k, v in pairs( APromote["grp"] ) do
8.                 if plyhours >= tonumber( v ) and tonumber( v ) >= Hours then
9.                         if tonumber( v ) >= 0 then
10.                                 Rank = k
11.                                 Hours = tonumber( v )
12.                         end
13.                 end
14.         end
15.         if (!ply:IsUserGroup(Rank) and Rank != "") then
16.                 if tonumber( APromote["grp"][usrgrp]) != -1 then
17.                         if not tobool( GetConVarNumber( "ap_auto_demote" ) ) and APromote["grp"][usrgrp] != nil
18.                         and Hours < tonumber( APromote["grp"][usrgrp] ) then
19.                                 return
20.                         else
21.                                 if ply:IsConnected() then
22.                                         RunConsoleCommand( "ulx", "adduserid", ply:SteamID(), Rank )
23.                                         PlayRankSound( ply )
24.                                 end
25.                         end
26.                 end
27.         end
28. end
29.  
30. timer.Create("doAPUpdateTimer", 10, 0, function()
31. if not tobool( GetConVarNumber( "ap_enabled" ) ) then return end
32.         for k, v in pairs( player.GetAll() ) do
33.                 if (v:IsPlayer() and v:IsValid() and !v:IsBot()) then
34.                         ULib.queueFunctionCall( checkPlayer, v )
35.                 end
36.         end
37. end)
38.  

However, I'm not sure how to capture if a person is that rank and been demoted, or if they've never had that rank before. There may be some internal function that captures these changes, but I'm not sure.


Just realized I'm not really being helpful here, but I really am not sure as this was written a couple years ago, and not sure when it was last updated...


EDIT: There's probably a really convulted way of doing this... and just manually adding in a

Code: Lua

1. if ply:SteamID() == "the steam id you don't want to be promoted" then return end

but you'd need to do that for a lot of them if it happens...


Another way, that's not a very good idea as it messes with core files, is edit the 'removeuser' command to add like do something like

Code: Lua

1. SetPData( "repromote", "false" )

so then you could edit the APromote to be

Code: Lua

1. if ply:GetPData( "repromote" ) == "false" then return end

which is a much easier way, but not a very good one because next ULX update you'd need to do it again and you're editing core files which is never a good idea.

[MrPresident]

instead of demoting them, why don't you just revoke the permissions they are abusing?

Say billy gets !gag as Senior Member and they are abusing it..

ulx userdeny billy "ulx gag"
ulx userdeny billy "ulx ungag"

This will deny that single user's permission without affecting the rest of the people in Senior Member, also they get to stay the rank they 'earned'

[iViscosity]

instead of demoting them, why don't you just revoke the permissions they are abusing?

Say billy gets !gag as Senior Member and they are abusing it..

ulx userdeny billy "ulx gag"
ulx userdeny billy "ulx ungag"

This will deny that single user's permission without affecting the rest of the people in Senior Member, also they get to stay the rank they 'earned'

Never thought of it that way, that's some good thinking [emoji108]

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[conviper30]

not bad ideas at all, i guess it is more of the fact to demote them as a whole so they get reprimanded and lose the actual title you know? Do you guys know a way to delete their Utime in game or through the console? I was thinking that could also be another way since the Utime is the basis for determining which group they fall in.

[iViscosity]

I know there is a 'settime' add-on out there somewhere. I have it on my server I just forget what it's called.

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[conviper30]

is this it? /index.php/topic,6182.0.html

[MrPresident]

That's it.

[JamminR]

IMO, this question should have been asked in the autopromote release thread you're using, not the support section for ULib/ulx.
I'm not moving it at this time, because a ULX solution can be used, but, Apromote isn't recommended nor created by Team Ulysses.

[MrPresident]

This is true, and in fact, autopromote WILL cause issues with your server and ULX down the road if you use it due to how it works and some limitations of ULX. Use at your own risk.