How do you kick someone with spaces in their player name?

A friend set up a 32 man server on a T1 this week and I'm one of the admins. I have the in game admin password, and I can VNC into the game server to directly access the console.

Anyways, the kick button doesn't work in game. I know that's already been reported. There have been people reporting that the server console "admin kick playername" thing doesn't work while others say that it does. I have now had both experiences. I was successfully able to kick someone with a single word name. Unfortunately, one asshat, named Jack the Lipper, seems unkickable through in-game buttons and through the server console. I have tried the following commands:

admin kick Jack the Lipper
admin ban Jack the Lipper
admin kick "Jack the Lipper"

Using quotes causes an "unrecognized command" error.

Anyone know how I may be able to kick someone, no matter what their name is?

You probably have to put the ascii code for a space in there, or something like that. The admin stuff is lacking/buggy anyway, needs some work. What I always do is I keep the webadmin pages open for our servers, then alt-tab out of the game to kick and ban.

You probably have to put the ascii code for a space in there, or something like that. The admin stuff is lacking/buggy anyway, needs some work. What I always do is I keep the webadmin pages open for our servers, then alt-tab out of the game to kick and ban.

Currently, the place we are having the server hosted at has all ports except for the T:V game port closed so in order to do webadmin, we need to VNC in and do the http://localhost thing. I can use the server console in the webadmin but for some reason when I VNC in and look at the web page, the actual list of players does not scroll so I can not select players to kick.

I have no problem using escape characters, specifying the name in hex, or whatever else needs to be done. I just need to be able to do it.

Currently, the place we are having the server hosted at has all ports except for the T:V game port closed so in order to do webadmin, we need to VNC in and do the http://localhost thing. I can use the server console in the webadmin but for some reason when I VNC in and look at the web page, the actual list of players does not scroll so I can not select players to kick.

I have no problem using escape characters, specifying the name in hex, or whatever else needs to be done. I just need to be able to do it.
How do you VNC if the VNC ports are closed?

Just asking. :roller:

How do you VNC if the VNC ports are closed?

Just asking. :roller:

The magic VNC fairies let me in.

I had that happen to me once, I ended up using the webadmin to ban the effer.

I had that happen to me once, I ended up using the webadmin to ban the effer.

currently I can't get the webadmin bans to work through VNC though. I can't scroll to see all the names. I can still do webadmin console bans though.

come on! Someones gotta know how to console ban anyone, no matter what their name!

Why dont you just acces webadmin from your machine without vnc?

Russ']Why dont you just acces webadmin from your machine without vnc?

Because we would need to get the people that have the server sitting in their office to give us access to another port to run the webadmin. Currently, they have no other ports set up for us. So until they do set up a port to run webadmin through, I need to VNC into it.

Jack"""the"""ripper


^ try that, I'm serious :)

I can't believe the not being able to kick people with a space is their name "bug" is still around today. it's been around forever in many games

I just put a space before and after my name...I am immortal!!

port 80 is the standard http port.

port 80 is the standard http port.
Unsolicited HTTP requests wouldn't be automatically routed to the T1 box, though.

would Jack%s%The%S%Ripper work? i remember seeing this code thing somewhere. though i am talking outta my ass here, seeing as actual code makes my eyes bleed.