What is Universal Unreal?
Universal Unreal is a system by which players can better connect with each other for enhanced gameplay. Universal Unreal is a group, or 'Universe' of servers with a common player base. For example, UT Strangelove players and servers could make up a 'Universe'. By creating an account on this website, you can take full advantage of all the features of Universal Unreal, both in-game and online.
But enough with all that. The best way to tell you exactly what Universal Unreal does is to describe some of its primary features.
Features For Players
Buddy System
Get notified when a friend or clan member gets on a server that is part of the universe. From the website or in-game, get a quick overview of which buddies are online, and on which servers they are playing.
Intelligent Chat Commands
What if your buddy joins a different server than the one you are playing on, and you want to join up with him? Instead of taking the time to rummage through the UT menus and finding servers, imagine giving a short command and then being instantly be taken to a server without having to know its IP or even open the UT menus! What if you want to see a list of all players on a server, or find out what map is being played on a server? All this information can be presented to you instantly from inside the game! If you wish to see an extensive list of chat command features, head over to the Help & How To Use page.
Server To Server Messaging
Want to ask your buddy a quick question, but don't want to have to jump to another server to talk with them? Universal Unreal has the ability to bridge in-game private messages between servers!
For our semi-admins:
Universal Unreal allows you to look up online players and get more info about them, such as other aliases, IP/host history, playing logs, and even action logs like kicks, bans, etc (action logs actually aren't quite working right now and I'm not sure why, but I am confident I'll get it).
Example:
So this is a very powerful tool that we can use to keep track of repeat offenders. I highly suggest we start using it often, so we aren't assuming a person is who we think they are. For everyone, the buddy system is very cool, useful, and a lot of fun. I would encourage you to join Universal Unreal for that reason as well. Once you have an account, I can flag your account as being a "Query Admin", or someone who has permission to do advanced log searches, etc. Alexei I'd like you to have access to this feature, so register if you get the chance
Xero, I've already given you this ability as of today. Mox, you should also partake. To use the "Query Admin" feature you must have that flagged account as I mentioned eariler, then you simply log in and click "Query Admin" on the left navigation pane. Xero, go ahead and play around with it a bit to get familiar with it The whole feature list: http://www.ut-slv.com/universalunreal/index.php?p=help
The "About" page: http://www.ut-slv.com/universalunreal/index.php?p=about
The "Credits" page: http://www.ut-slv.com/universalunreal/i ... ?p=credits
Finally: Universal Unreal is open for any community to set up and use, open source and free of charge. Perhaps the RX community could get some use out of a ROS-hosted Universe Installation (Alexei) - just a suggestion? Universal Unreal comes in two flavors: one that is tied in with Nexgen and one that doesn't require Nexgen at all. Both can operate under the same universe installation.
Official information: http://www.unrealadmin.org/forums/forum ... .php?f=199
^^ I'm sure that's all a bit confusing to read, let me know if you have questions
