Player Login Log

First I want to take a moment to thank you guys for this awesome mod, I wouldn't even know where to begin making something like this and cant imagine running a server without it!

jpcsupplies mentioned wanting to determine the age of objects for clean-ups... #126. Another way of looking at ageing abandoned junk is determining when the owner was last present.

Log can be very light on information.

Player (steamid to ensure consistency and uniqeness)
faction(name/id/whatever) ..... to help check a grid against a faction
last login time
last seen time

Stored as xml for easy access/loading on server start.
Can record player's connection(or successful loading into) and disconnection to the server.
If the server doesn't see them leave (server resets/crashes with players connected)
-when the server loads up, compares last seen and last login times
-if they are the same then record the current time as last seen time (for safety if this is to be used for clean ups)

Then listships or a clean-up command can reference this to determine if the grids owner hasn't been on in two weeks, or if the grids faction...

I have the start of a clean-up command already etched out that ill show in a different issue. Includes a check for sub-type id/name with partial match. Calling your awesome getattachedgrids method (love it) once for each... "cluster" of grids.

At the moment its just (the player log) a thought, need to look into how to go about it.

Sandbox.Engine.Multiplayer.MyMultiplayerJoinResult.JoinDone();

at a glance looks promising for connections.

Disclaimer... I have only been looking at c# the past few months so if it looks like I doing something stupid don't be afraid to tell me so :D

Start by investigating Sandbox.Engine.Multiplayer.MyMultiplayerJoinResult.JoinDone() and the mod's existing server lifecycle or command code. Define how player identity, faction, login, and last-seen data should be stored in XML and recovered after an unclean shutdown. Done means the log records connection and disconnection state reliably and can support later cleanup checks.