Steam Group Rewards

Reward players for joining your Steam group with a rank.

Features

• Plugin checks every RefreshTimeSeconds if player is in Steam group specified in configuration.
• If player is in the group, he gets a permission group specified in configuration.
• If player leaves the group, he loses a permission group specified in configuration.
• Optionally, you can enable announcement when player joins the group, so everyone can see it.
• All calls to Steam API are done in a separate thread to not block the main thread. So it won't cause any lag on your server.

I recommend adding a /steam command to your server that will open a link to your Steam group. You can create a steam permission group as well with permissions you want to give to players for joining, for example special kit or vault access.

Unfortunately endpoint being used to fetch the members list is cached by Steam, so even if you set RefreshTimeSeconds to 3 minutes for example, it usually takes 10 minutes for the plugin to notice when someone joined/left the group. From what we noticed Steam caches the request per IP or client, so even though someone might appear to be on the list for you, it doesn't mean that Steam didn't return a cached list to the client.

Endpoint used to fetch Steam IDs of group members in the plugin:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/RestoreMonarchy/memberslistxml?xml=1

Credits

Soer for the idea and sponsoring the plugin.

Configuration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SteamGroupRewardsConfiguration xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <MessageColor>yellow</MessageColor>
  <SteamGroupName>RestoreMonarchy</SteamGroupName>
  <PermissionGroupID>vip</PermissionGroupID>
  <RefreshTimeSeconds>300</RefreshTimeSeconds>
  <EnableAnnouncement>true</EnableAnnouncement>
</SteamGroupRewardsConfiguration>

Translations

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Translations xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <Translation Id="Announcement" Value="{0} received {1} for joining {2} Steam group!" />
  <Translation Id="Added" Value="You received {0} for joining our Steam group." />
  <Translation Id="Removed" Value="You lost {0} for leaving our Steam group." />
</Translations>