Can the Ulysses team PLEASE make a Prop Protection suite? Pleeeeease?

[BrandonR]

Okay, I'm officially fedup with all the other prop protection suites.  PropSecure no longer works and is unsupported, PropProtection is broken (or at least the menu is) and I never found it to be a workable option as it never told the prop's owner whenever you looked at it... Combine all these problems with this script being an absolute necessity for any server, and the fact that the developers of the previously mentioned scripts seem to release one version and subsequently disappear/forget it ever existed. I propose the Ulysses team make a prop protection suite of their own... Now hear me out!

Perfect integration with UClip and ULX would be possible, and I've said it before and I'll say it again, this team is/has easily been the best for regular and consistent updates for Gmod-related scripts. It can't nearly be as much work as a big script such as ULX must be, and I'm positive it'd be a very welcome addition in the Gmod community. Any other ideas? I'm sure you guys are busy, one developer to another... I hope this post didn't come out as ungrateful, quite the opposite was intended... Just that the Ulysses team is THE best Gmod coders and I think they could dominate yet another admin script category if they really wanted to. 

[Chironex]

I'm writing one (i've named it UProtect as it uses ulx.logString lol) but i've problem with a timer that won't want to delete players things :/.

Also i'm beginner so it will not be as great as prop protection, so i don't know if i will release it or no.. but at least it show the owner :p

[wooly]

What the perfect propprotection script needs (from my point of veiw)

-Actually protects all your props from both moving / removal.
-Has an integrated Buddy list which allows others to modify stuff on request
-Has an administration panel which allows admins to remove all of a persons props (prevents spam)
-Removes props after 180 secs (unless kicked when it removes it instantly ((anti-spammers))
- Shows which item belongs to who.

That would be perfect

[BrandonR]

Couldn't agree more! Also, not sure if it'd be related to the Prop Protection script, but a way to protect map's default props and entities from being physgunned or owned by various people on the map...

[atomicspark]

Okay, I'm officially fedup with all the other prop protection suites.  PropSecure no longer works and is unsupported, PropProtection is broken (or at least the menu is) and I never found it to be a workable option as it never told the prop's owner whenever you looked at it... Combine all these problems with this script being an absolute necessity for any server, and the fact that the developers of the previously mentioned scripts seem to release one version and subsequently disappear/forget it ever existed. I propose the Ulysses team make a prop protection suite of their own... Now hear me out!

Perfect integration with UClip and ULX would be possible, and I've said it before and I'll say it again, this team is/has easily been the best for regular and consistent updates for Gmod-related scripts. It can't nearly be as much work as a big script such as ULX must be, and I'm positive it'd be a very welcome addition in the Gmod community. Any other ideas? I'm sure you guys are busy, one developer to another... I hope this post didn't come out as ungrateful, quite the opposite was intended... Just that the Ulysses team is THE best Gmod coders and I think they could dominate yet another admin script category if they really wanted to. 

The menu isn't broken, there is just a small bug because of the latest update. He has been busy with work and hasn't gotten around to fix it. We put up with this little annoyance for now because it is and always has been the best prop protection solution. It is used on all Ulysses, WCA, and my servers. 'Nuff said.

What the perfect propprotection script needs (from my point of veiw)

-Actually protects all your props from both moving / removal.
-Has an integrated Buddy list which allows others to modify stuff on request
-Has an administration panel which allows admins to remove all of a persons props (prevents spam)
-Removes props after 180 secs (unless kicked when it removes it instantly ((anti-spammers))
- Shows which item belongs to who.

That would be perfect

Prop Protection by Chaussette does all of that.

Couldn't agree more! Also, not sure if it'd be related to the Prop Protection script, but a way to protect map's default props and entities from being physgunned or owned by various people on the map...

Most admins allow physgunning and shooting of shared props because grenades and combine balls are under the same category.

[BrandonR]

Are you sure about PropProtection saying the name of the prop owner whenever you aim at it? I tried it out and it lacked that feature so I immediately deleted it since that's such a vital feature to a Prop Protecting script (and for admins to know whos props is whose, and to know what props are yours too).

[atomicspark]

No. It tells you when you touch it with a physgun or shoot it. It's more accurate that way. You may disagree but I found PropSecure to be very annoying.

[Megiddo]

We have a stool we made for our server that the admins can use to see who owns a prop with Prop Protection. If you want, I can post it here.

[MrPresident]

I would love to have that Stool. There was an instace tonight where someone spawned a huge amount of Exp barrels and by the lack of any structure to them I was assuming they were going to blow them up.. or try to.. simultaneously. I had no idea who spawned they as I was doing something else at the time and had a split second to make a decision before he blew them up.

I would have been able to shoot the prop, determine the owner, and then kick/ban accordingly rather than wait for someone to make a move that could potentially crash the server.

Long story short.. i would love you for that stool and.. no he didn't crash my server, I made a lucky guess and got  him before he could blow them up.

[Chironex]

Spacetech released his prop protection, and i can say it works fine (but as it's new there is probably some small bugs) and have all Prop Protection features, + show the owner (see my post here if you want to solve a 'bug'), and + others features to come, i hope. This is really nice.

[BrandonR]

Yep I just downloaded and am testing the Spacetech protection... But I don't think UClip works with it so I'm back to my flying mode script for the time being.... 

[Megiddo]

There's so many new prop protectors all the time it's hard for me to keep Uclip up with everything.

[spbogie]

I agree, too many prop protectors. It's time garry integrates prop protection, or at least prop owner tracking.

[Chironex]

I don't understand why SetOwner() makes the prop no collided at all (can't physgun it, only others objects can move it) . Without this 'bug' we could do a proper prop protection.

[atomicspark]

I changed my mind.

Thanks, I just rad your topic (with Conna's normal reaction ) I saw your screenshots, that sounds good, I didn't have the time to script anything in LUA anymore, so I hope your protection will be good.

If someone want to translate my script in english, it's very easy, I used simple french words, so you can use google translator for example.

And spacetech, you can use all of my lines of code, if I released it, it was for everyone.

See you guys

So if someone from the Ulysses team can fix it and optimize it (maybe translate it too), that would be great. Oh and bug Garry to make one too, unless it will turn out to be crap.