Oops, guess I posted to the mailing list after-all. Hopefully nobody DoS's my URLs.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Weasels Lair <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
