Mentor Guide
This information only applies to people interested in becoming a Mentor and teaching other players how to play Smashball. Most people will not need this information.
Smashball University
The only fully accredited Smashball school.
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What is the Smashball University Mentor Program?
It's how experienced players in the community share their skills and experience with newer players. We give Mentors access to Smashball servers so that they can hold classes and school noobs.
Pro Tip!
Pre-Approved
A lot of early users have been pre-approved for this position. If you're part of that bunch, you don't have to go through this process.
How to Become a Mentor
If you would like to volunteer to be a Mentor, please apply in the Smashball University forum with a nice description of why you would make a good Mentor and what type of skills you would be teaching. With enough positive response from the community you may become one of the few, the proud, The Mentors!
Posting guidelines at: http://forums.smashball.tv/showthread.php?t=716
Introduce yourself, explain why you want to be a mentor, what kind of classes you'd hold, and why you think you'd do a good job. League administrators will review your post, and your application will be approved when they feel comfortable you'd be a good mentor. They will take into account:
- Your posting history on the forums: helpfulness, general attitude, etc.
- How well you follow instructions
- Experience in playtest
- Any personal interaction
Pro Tip!
Class Postings
Please keep your class posting up-to-date. League admins will periodically condense the forum listing into an e-mail to the playerbase, and we don't want to send people a listing of dead classes!
Classes
Scheduling your Class
Decide what kind of class you want to hold and announce it to the world at large through our Smashball University forum:
http://forums.smashball.tv/forumdisplay.php?f=25
Cancelling or Delaying
If you have to take a break, or need to hang up your gauntlet, please update your post in the forums.
Running Your Class
The league is providing a number of servers designated for use by mentors. When it's time to run your class, you may commandeer one of these and set it up to your liking!
Pro Tip!
Developer Console
To use the commands here, you will need to make sure the console is enabled in-game. While in Smashball:
- Options->"Keyboard" tab->"Advanced" button
- Click the checkbox labeled "Enable developer console"
Finding Your Server
Check the server browser for any servers named 'SBU (region): Classes Closed'. Alternatively, here are the IP addresses of the servers we have reserved:
- US-EAST: 69.90.34.60:27015
- US-WEST: 69.90.189.20:27015
- EU: 85.17.222.181:27015
Find a server that is not being used by another mentor. If a classroom has accidentally been left open and is occupied, feel free to connect and take it over for your use -- some of the players might stay!
Pro Tip!
Enabling Super Rcon Powers
Do this to enable your SUPER RCON POWERS:
- Hit the ` or ~ key (usually in the upper left of the keyboard). This will bring down the console.
- Type
rcon_password "myrconpass"into the field at the bottom of the console and hit ENTER. Replace myrconpass with the actual rcon password. - You are now enabled! Use that same text field to enter console commands. You must prefix every command with the word 'rcon', like
rcon say "hi I am rcon"
Opening the Class
Use your rcon powers to change the server name so that prospective students can see it in the browser:
rcon sv_servername "put it here"
Use the following template for naming the server:
SBU (region): (name)'s (class) [(lang)]
Where: - (region) is US-EAST, US-WEST, EU - (name) is your name, so people know who is in charge - (class) is the name of the course you're teaching - (lang) are the language codes of what you can teach in: EN FR etc
Change the server password (not the rcon password!) to nothing, to unlock the classroom to the general public:
<code> rcon sv_password ""
Lock Up when you're Done
When you're all done with the class, close up the classroom so that it can be used by the next mentor. Change the server name back to what it was:
rcon hostname "SBU (region): Classes Closed"
And lock the server with the standard password:
rcon sv_password "(default password)"
You can find the standard password in your personal welcome email.
Useful Commands
Now, let's go over a short list of useful commands you can use to control your server. Also check out Server Variables for a bunch of useful settings you can change on the server to affect overall gameplay.
- changelevel <map> - Use this to change the level to <map>. Stats will not be run.
- status - shows a list of current players, their IP address, STEAMIDs, and server IDs. You will use the first number field for server ids, and the third field for their steamid. Note that because it takes a long time to type in a steamid, the serverid is often WAY easier to use in the below commands.
- kickid <userid or uniqueid> <message> - kicks the user based on userid or STEAMID. For example, to kick the player with id 1 because he is harassing newbs:
rcon kickid 1 "stop harassing newbs dork" - banid <minutes> <userid or uniqueid> - bans the user for <minutes> minutes. Use 0 minutes to ban them forever.
rcon banid 0 12 - sv_password "<password>" - This can be used to add and remove the password from the server to open it or close it. To clear it, do
rcon sv_password "" - hostname "<servername>" - changes the name that appears in the server list to <servername>. For example: "SBU US-EAST: Warmfuzzy's n00bs 101"
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