[CS:GO] Store Beta (ended) / Improved Chat Handling!

Part 1 - Store
After being announced some months ago, I am now proud to present to you the public Store beta!
It is currently available on the Surf 1-3 server, and will be expanded to all our CS:GO servers (with some exceptions, see below) the next week - given everything runs smoothly.

Core features
- Automatic earning of Store "credits" - once every minute, or one for every kill
- Built-in trading/gifting system
- Ability to refund bought items
- Ability to buy items, see the spoilers below!
- Donators receive all items for free while they have that status

Notes
- You will not earn any points while being in spectator, this is to prevent excessive point farming
- Once the system will be rolled out now rolled out- a AFK mover plugin will also be installed - not moving/doing anything for more than 5 minutes will get you moved to spectator
- FFA (and for now, KZ) will not receive the Store system at all - first one is mainly a warm up server, latter one requires some extra plugin modifications
- Trails have been left out (for now), as they are mainly annoying on Surf/Bhop and add (in my opinion) unnecessary downloads on other servers (such as ZE).
If there is popular demand for them, I may consider adding some in the future.

Planned
- Adding 1-2 buyable skins on surf/bhop (will cost around 2-3k credits) - suggestions welcome!
- Make one zombie/human model restricted to the Store (please suggest which ones) - see https://forums.f-o-g.eu/threads/cs-go-store-public-beta-improved-chat-handling.13850/#post-96780 done
- Add the ability to buy credits for real money - requires a own web page to be made, so will not happen that soon.

All prices can be viewed in the store menu itself.

Items
Chat tags
Available on: all servers
Adds "custom" chat tags in front of your name - similar to the donator plugin, just with pre-defined tags.

Spoiler

Equinox

420

Ex-Con

Wannabe

Pleb

Potato

Savage

Hottie

Name colors
Available on: all servers
Work the same as in the donator plugin

Spoiler

Example:

Available colors:

Message colors
Available on: all servers
Same as name colors

Spoiler

Example:

Available colors:

Accessories (hats and face masks)
Available on: all servers
Hats/masks will no longer be obtainable for free through !hats, but can be bought in the store.

Spoiler

Actual hats (which are placed on your head):
Available hats:


Face masks:

Available masks:

Pets
Available on: all servers
These are parented on your player model and follow you whereever you go.

Spoiler

Example:


Available pets:

Tracers
Available on: ZE
For each bullet shot, a line will be drawn in the direction the bullet went.

Spoiler

Example:


Available tracers:

Laser Sights
Available on: ZE
Similar to tracers, sights are simply lines drawn in the direction you are aiming while using a zoomed-in sniper rifle.

Spoiler

Example:


Available sights:

Grenade trails
Available on: all servers where guns are available (ZE, Retakes)
Draws a trail after each thrown grenade (flashbang, smokes, regular HE nades)

Spoiler

Example:

Available trails:

Grenade skins
Available on: all servers where guns are available (ZE, Retakes)
Replaces the default grenade skins

Spoiler

HE:


Flash:


Smoke:

Those are all items for now, new tracers/trails can be added easily, as long as they are using built-in CS:GO materials.
If you also have any chat tag suggestions, please post them down below.

Part 2 - Improved chat message handling
Alongside with the Store system, the entire way how chat messages are handled by our various plugins has been redone.
Instead of each plugin rewriting the chat message on its own (in a global forward), a central plugin is now responsible for that.

This, for example, allows you to disable each chat "tag" (or plugin if you want) on its own.
So if you want to show off your l33t Store tag, but are a donator, you can simply toggle off the latter one, and all your messages will have the Store tag!

For that, a new option has been added to the !settings command, called "Toggle chat tags":

The example from above would work with the settings above. To toggle each setting, simply select it, just like in every other menu.
Greyed-out items cannot be disabled and will be always on (Timer in this case).

Another option is the synchronization of the above settings, so you have the same state on all our CS:GO servers.
With synchronization disabled, and toggling the "admin" tag on ZE, it would still be enabled on Surf.
To have the same state everywhere, select "Synchronization options" in the "Toggle chat tags" menu, and click on "Enable".
Upon selecting that item, the settings from the current server will be set to be global, so all per-server settings will be overriden (e.g. admin tag enabled on ZE, on surf disabled; toggle global on ZE => will be enabled globally).
Menu:


Some examples:
All enabled:

Admin disabled:

Donator disabled:


Last, but not least, a standalone plugin for handling admin tags has been implemented, therefore implementing a long wanted feature (@BurkHart / @Avaritia)
Nothing more to add, they basically work the same as in TF2, by adding a tag in front of your name and changing your name/message color.

The following tags are available, JA/TA have to share a color, as CS:GO doesn't support RGB colors (yet):

Code:

Owner - {darkred}*Owner*{default}
SM - {darkred}*SM*{default}
SA - {blue}*SA*{default}
JA - {yellow}*JA*{default}
TA -{yellow}*TA*{default}

Your name color will in all cases be dark blue, doesn't matter which rank.

The second part is also only available on Surf 1-3 for now, and will be rolled out together with the Store next week.
If there are any questions, feel free to ask! Especially the chat coordination system took a good while to make.

 

Probably gonna add these as store-only models: http://gamebanana.com/skins/152563 (humans) / http://gamebanana.com/skins/144041 (humans) and http://gamebanana.com/skins/146879 (zombie) / http://gamebanana.com/skins/146584 (zombie)
Also gonna remove police/female zombie, barely used skins and will reduce the downloads a bit.

@Jak http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/server_guidelines/
While custom model + custom skin is apparently allowed, I don't really want to risk it - some people already got banned for that.

 

a.) yes, the cost of items are customizable, but only across all servers.
Currently, chat tags are between 380-800 credits, could maybe double that (so lowest would be ~750, highest 1600)
b.) Credits are shared between all our CS:GO servers. Please keep in mind though that the entire system is disabled on Surf Donator/Expert, Bhop Donator/Test.