XASECO stands for Xymph's ASECO and is the new name
for the system formerly known as ASECO/RASP for classic TMN. It now
supports TrackMania Forever as well.
ASECO is an abbreviation of "Automatic SErver
COntrol", a system for TrackMania Original, Sunrise
and (especially) Nations and Forever servers to keep
track of player records and provide useful player and admin commands.
RASP is a sizable set of plugins for ASECO that adds server
ranks, a track jukebox, a karma voting system, and lots more.
As evidenced by the many TrackMania (Nations) servers running it, the ASECO/RASP system for TMO/TMS/TMN remained a very popular package to keep track of records and offer players various useful commands and features. But its original authors have moved on to TM United, so I have been working at the system on my own since May 2007 to improve and expand it. The number of changes is so large that I decided (somewhat presumptuously perhaps) to call this system XASECO version 0.8, subsequently updated to v1.14, many major releases since ASECO 0.61b and RASP 1.5 that together combined into version 0.7. TrackMania Forever is also supported since XASECO v0.96. I don't believe there's a point in running a barebones (X)ASECO system without at least the RASP plugins because those add so many basic and useful features and commands which players enjoy, so they are not released separately like before but as one combined system. The remaining plugins included in this v1.14 release (Mistral's idle-kick, and Jfreu's plugin) are however optional, as are the series of new plugins I developed myself. My overall goal remained to stick to 'core functionality' as much as possible, rather than include into the base system any of the variety of 'niche' plugins that exist out there, while still providing a complete and integrated solution for server control. For a high-level outline of all of XASECO's features and plugins, see the Overview page. For screenshots of many of the TMF interface features, see this preview thread. For a comprehensive overview of the new stuff, see the v0.8 initial release notes, v0.81 - v0.95 oldest release notes, v0.96 - v1.03 older release notes, and v1.04 - v1.14 current release notes. And here is a complete overview of all available commands in HTML and Word. |
<tmserver>
and <masteradmins>
(renamed from the original <admins>
) sections, the
MySQL settings in localdatabase.xml, and the flags and variables in
includes/rasp.settings.php. For details on the new settings in v0.8 -
v1.14, see Configuration options below. To get
up to speed, you can first check this TMN
& XASECO quick start guide or alternatively the TMF & XASECO quick start guide.
<masterserver_account>
section from
your server's dedicated.cfg (TMN) or dedicated_cfg.txt (TMF)
file into the corresponding section of the dedimania.xml file,
and add the 3-character nation abbreviation. Instead of the
password you can also use the community code for your server by
using the server login/password on the official
site for your game (TMO/TMS/TMN) or on this page for
TMF. Also, open port 8002 on your firewall/router for
communication with the central Dedimania server.
<masterserver_account>
section from your
server's dedicated.cfg (TMN) or dedicated_cfg.txt (TMF) file into
the corresponding section of the dedimania.xml file, and add
the 3-character nation abbreviation. Instead of the password
you can also use the community code for your server by using
the server login/password on the official
site for your game (TMO/TMS/TMN) or on this page for
TMF.