We have installed a new plugin on the Source-based servers at SunLit. The games we have currently running that are based on Source include both HL2DM servers (SunLit Team DeathMatch and SunLit Source of Horrors) and the SunLit CS:S server. The plugin, if anyone is curious, is called the Mani Admin Plugin [2].

The Mani plugin makes life easier for the admins, but also gives players a few of the features they're used to on our HLDS (i.e., Half-Life 1 based) game servers.

Here are some things you can try out on the Source servers:

• nextmap - shows the next map in the mapcycle.
• listmaps - shows available maps on the server.
• thetime - shows current time
• timeleft - shows timeleft on this map
• votemap - starts map vote, press esc to see list
• ff - shows friendly fire status
• rank - shows your stats ranking
• statsme - shows your stats
• top - shows top player stats

Please note that I have not had a chance to try all these things out yet, so don't be surprised if you find a few bugs. The plugin is also a beta plugin, so we may find some unexpected behaviour. Please post something in the forums if you find a problem.

The voting system is also very rudimentary at this point. There is no automatic, end-of-round vote. And there's no "extend map" vote either. The developer says he's working on improving the voting for the next release.

Try it out, and let us know what you think [3].