TL;DR: Add a new command that shuts down the server from inside the game, BUT, Brings it online again after it has completed the shut down to reduce potential down time.
As the title goes, From my time of being a member of the admin/Moderator staff of the StarSide community, this included assisting in the running of the Starmade server, Shattered Skies. Lets not get into polotics about it, though...
Most admin staff as far as I know (Except the owners and trusted individuals) do not have access to the Server's back-end, and are thus unable to initiate a server start, or update it, etc.
In my time of Moderating, there have been times I felt the server needed to be brought down temporarily in order to deal with an issue after it has restarted, Or, the server is starting to have issues with loading new chunks, or the missile explosives are no longer dealing damage and needs a reboot to get it working again.
Time and Time again, there wasnt anyone who HAD access to the back end of the server online in order to reboot and fix these issues. As the Fix for the issue is just shutting down the server and it never coming back online for another 3 hours...
This allows admin staff "basic" control of the server itself. Of course, when the server is down, they cant activate it since they cant join an offline server, so we are still waiting for a "Super-admin" or Owner to come and reboot the server in the event of a sudden server crash.
This will also reduce the reliance on "Wrappers" by a small fraction. Only a small fraction.
As the title goes, From my time of being a member of the admin/Moderator staff of the StarSide community, this included assisting in the running of the Starmade server, Shattered Skies. Lets not get into polotics about it, though...
Most admin staff as far as I know (Except the owners and trusted individuals) do not have access to the Server's back-end, and are thus unable to initiate a server start, or update it, etc.
In my time of Moderating, there have been times I felt the server needed to be brought down temporarily in order to deal with an issue after it has restarted, Or, the server is starting to have issues with loading new chunks, or the missile explosives are no longer dealing damage and needs a reboot to get it working again.
Time and Time again, there wasnt anyone who HAD access to the back end of the server online in order to reboot and fix these issues. As the Fix for the issue is just shutting down the server and it never coming back online for another 3 hours...
This allows admin staff "basic" control of the server itself. Of course, when the server is down, they cant activate it since they cant join an offline server, so we are still waiting for a "Super-admin" or Owner to come and reboot the server in the event of a sudden server crash.
This will also reduce the reliance on "Wrappers" by a small fraction. Only a small fraction.