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[MordyT]

Since plugin admin is needed by b3 always to start, why its it a plugin? Make it part of the core, yes keep the xml, but it shouldn't need to be a plugin.

the only reason I can think of is so you can have plugins load before it, but I don't know of any that would ever need to.

thoughts?
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[Courgette]

the admin plugin is a plugin because the features it brings to B3 are to be implemented as a plugin to fit into the B3 framework.

I don't know if that statement makes it easier to understand :s Anyway, you could also imagine that the B3 framework is just something that translate game events (kill, connect, change map, etc) from different games into B3 events. Those events are then forwarded to plugins interested in them. Those plugins in turn take actions such as sending rcon commands to game server or writing stuff into the B3 database, etc.

So the B3 framework is just an event translator and dispatcher.

The admin plugin is what recognize in-game commands by listening to all chat event. It also read/write to database to check players level and decide if that player can use that command, etc

In the other hand, because features provided by the admin plugin are so essential to in-game game server administration and because it is the plugin that allows other plugins to register their own commands, the admin plugin is mandatory to make B3 work.