[Feature]: Introduce Mute Functionality Across Games

[magge-faf]

Describe the Feature

Request to officially implement a mute system for players across games.

The idea is to prevent affected users from:

• Using in-game chat (most important)
• Placing text markers
• Drawing on the map
• Using Aeolus

The feature should be applied via our tool Mordor. It had a mute-ish feature in the past, but it broke. Parts of the old code may be reusable, and will be referenced.

Proposed Outline:

1. Game team reviews implementing the mute feature.
2. Raise follow-up issues if server-side, client-side or Mordor changes are required.

FYI: Frontend Screenshot in Mordor

Note:

If minor Mordor changes are required for testing/debugging, I can take a look and implement them before involving any FAF senior developer.

References:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFAForever%2Ffaf-moderator-client%20setBanInfo&type=code
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFAForever%2Ffaf-moderator-client%20BanLevel.CHAT&type=code

[Garanas]

Mmhh, I think the biggest hurdle is that this would require the game to have access to some file that is generated by the client. And that the content of this file is on the server. This means the client needs to:

• Fetch the necessary data.
• Generate the Lua file (e.g., muted-players.lua).
• Zip it, call it 'Generated.nx2' or something similar, to clearly mark these files as generated files
• Put it where the other game files are (in gamedata)

The game needs to extend the init file(s) to mount this new zip file. Then the game can (carefully) try and import the generated file. Perhaps via a pcall, as the file may not be there depending on the client that is used. This file can never be imported by the sim, for all obvious reasons it will be different for each user.

All of the previous probably needs to be done in https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client (and maybe also https://github.com/FAForever/client)

Now the work in this repository can start, which is extending the lobby and the in-game logic to automatically mute all players with matching player names. This won't be 100% foolproof, but it may be sufficient for the far majority of users.