Is there a way to seperate the vip steam ID's from everyone else? I ask because I have the full backpack and backpack saves for my VIP's each month and is a pain to search through 100+ steam ID's each month for my VIP's to save and to delete everyone elses.. Thank you love the plugin
Exempt VIPs from backpack wipeSolved
Are you wiping the map or just the backpacks every month? If the map, I think a good way to implement this would be to add a keeponwipe permission which exempts certain players' backpacks from being wiped if they have the permission when the wipe occurs.
If you are wiping backpacks on a different cadence than map wipes, we could consider adding a command that wipes the ones that dont have the permission, but this might ideally be under a different keeponmanualwipe permission for flexibility.
If you are wiping backpacks on a different cadence than map wipes, we could consider adding a command that wipes the ones that dont have the permission, but this might ideally be under a different keeponmanualwipe permission for flexibility.
I'm wiping the map and all backpacks that are not in VIP each month which means I have to search through 100+ steam ID's each month for my VIP's to save there backpacks (steam ID's) from being wiped
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Is there a way to seperate in the data file for those that have the vip permission to be seperated from those that dont have the vip permission?
a simple:
Steam ID
Steam ID
---VIP--
Steam ID
Steam ID
would be nice
There are several issues with your proposed solution. One is that there is no universal concept of VIP. Many servers also have different tiers of VIP. We could conceivably allow you to configure specific groups in the config, which the plugin would use to store the backpack data files. However, groups can change so additional logic would have to account for this complexity, so this approach is likely not worth the effort and maintenance burden. This problem is also not specific to only the Backpacks plugin, so implementing it here would likely result in duplication of effort ad people attempt to solve it for other plugins.
I'm not sure if you understood my previous post. I asked a question to understand more about your situation and proposed an alternative solution that is far simpler. Now that I understand you are only wiping backpacks when the map wipes, I can confirm that this solution will work for your use case.
Here is how it would work. You enable the configuration option to wipe backpacks on map wipe, and you give permissions to the VIP group to prevent specifically their backpacks from being wiped. This will allow you to avoid having to manually delete the data files each wipe as they will be cleared by the plugin automatically. The permission feature still needs to be implemented but I should be able to do it this weekend, and it will take some time for the plugin author to review and merge it.
I'm not sure if you understood my previous post. I asked a question to understand more about your situation and proposed an alternative solution that is far simpler. Now that I understand you are only wiping backpacks when the map wipes, I can confirm that this solution will work for your use case.
Here is how it would work. You enable the configuration option to wipe backpacks on map wipe, and you give permissions to the VIP group to prevent specifically their backpacks from being wiped. This will allow you to avoid having to manually delete the data files each wipe as they will be cleared by the plugin automatically. The permission feature still needs to be implemented but I should be able to do it this weekend, and it will take some time for the plugin author to review and merge it.
I think I understand and thank you for taking the time
Marking as solved since Backpacks v3.3.0 and later have the backpacks.keeponwipe permission which seems to address your particular use case.
The way to use this it to set the config option Clear Backpacks on Map-Wipe (true/false): true so that the backpack will wipe when the map does (in your case, every month), and grant the backpacks.keeponwipe permission to your VIP group(s) so that those players are exempt.
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