P-G-QVM v1.6.2 released at Paradox Designs

Well, this is an important release of the qvm, because it features changes that will hopefully allow the qvm to appeal to more members of the community. 1.6.2 removes a number of the abusive commands[1. That is, !switch, !mix, !trade, !steal, !explode, !drug], and duplicates some of their functionality with non-abusible counterparts. Read on for details.

Paradox Designs is not responsible for any damage that is caused by the contents of the following post. By reading this post, you waive all liability against Paradox Designs. Basically, use this at your own risk.

Growing up

P-G-QVM had these features for a long time, since its initial development. Many other members of the community lauded these as features of non-serious qvms, and failed to adopt it. The commands were fun, but even people who supported them got tired of them and wished to move on. So they have been removed. Sort of. The functionality they served has been replaced by some commands that are much harder to abuse.

First off, !grab. !grab can only be run from spectator, preventing players from giving their own team an advantage. !grab is designed to pick up players and move them, eg the person sitting in the deconned team’s base durning a pause.

Then there is !bring. Bring replaces switch in a way. When 2 players are spectators, and player1 says Hey, look at this, i think i found a bug and player2 is an admin, player2 just runs !bring player1. That puts player2 in exactly the same position as player1. This only works from spectator, and really cant be abused in any way.

Changelog

Teamstatus now flood limited, via cvar g_teamStatusTime, and updated quite a bit ( Issue 121 )
New Marauder obituary (toggled via cvar g_maraObituary) ( Issue 125 and seperate cvar)
Added !fireworks command, flag Y ( Issue 126 )
Added nobuild series of commands, !nobuild and !nobuildsave, flag L ( Issue 128 )
Added /allstats command, cvar g_allStats controls who can see it (0=off, 1=teammates only, 2=serverwide) and g_allstatsTime controls the rate at which players can repeat command. ( Issue 123 ) ( Issue 139 )
Cleaned up name sanitize to filter ALL non-visible ascii characters (boxes) ( Issue 131 )
Added !grab command ( Issue 135 ) ( Issue 135 ) ( Issue 138 )
Removed !mix, !switch, !trade, !steal, !explode ( Issue 138 )
Added !bring command, brings the admin who ran it as a spectator to another spectators point of view. ( Issue 138 )
Added cvar controlling many wallwalk hovel glitches, g_wwNoHovelBuild ( Issue 136 )
Hardcoded !info credits into qvm, now server operators dont have to upload 2 files. ( Issue 140 )

Details

!nobuild

!nobuild is a command designed to allow server operators to fix glitches in maps. It was originally created to fix an annoying bug on Ethereal, and has since evolved.

We do not reccomend placing nobuild items in game, best to do it in a devmap