Mike - Hope you do not mind the directly-reply (instead of through the list). I didn't necessarily want to post all this publicly.
Obviously, HTML-based MOTD's are the key for this type of thing. Unfortunately, players can disable display of HTML-based MOTD's on their clients. So, there's no 100% guarantee that players will see it. Instead of putting the HTML text directly into the "motd.txt" file, you can put just a single line in the "motd.txt" file that is the URL of where to the client should go retreive the real motd information. For example, on my TF2 servers I might put just this single line in the "motd.txt" file: http://games.weaselslair.com/motd-rules.html Obviously, that is a pointer to a web-page that I control. It can be on any web-site you like. From there, you can link to anything you like. Maybe the initial page is just a table-of-contents for multiple pages with more detail on various rules or other information. For example, on my TF2 servers there are several URL's that players have access to via the MOTD: http://games.weaselslair.com/motd-rules.html http://games.weaselslair.com/motd-info-tf2.html http://games.weaselslair.com/motd-cmds-tf2.html On a related note, for players that have HTML-based motd's disabled, they will see the content of the "motd_text.txt" file instead of going to that URL. So, in the "motd_text.txt" file, is a smaller, simpler sub-set of the rules or other information - in plain (unformatted) text. Hope this helps, if you have any other related questions regarding this, please do not be afraid to ask. - Weasel On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Mike Vail <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Fellow Admins, > > Our community's list of rules and other info I want listed on the MOTD of our > TF2 servers is too much to list in the motd.txt file. It's really not that > much stuff, but Valve restricts the file size of motd.txt so much that when > incorporating all I need to put in there, the file exceeds the limit of what > it can be and the MOTD appears blank, even though there's text in the file. I > don't know why they do this!!!!! _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
