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What's new on Alama this week: ranks from the panel, DarkRP in one click, and a clearer order page

If you run a game server, you know the feeling: a small job that should take a minute ends up costing an evening. You have to join the game just to change a player's rank. You get a pile of red lines in the console and no idea which add-on they come from. You wonder how many people were really online last night.

This week we worked on exactly that kind of job. Here is what changed in the game panel (panel.alama.host), in the shop, and on the site.

Six tiles: Ranks, Game modes, Players over time, Script errors, Maps and config, Add-on security

Change a player's rank without joining the game

A player has earned a promotion, and you are not at your computer. Most Garry's Mod admins know that day.

Comic in three panels: an owner wants to promote a player and thinks he must launch the game, the Alama llama says to open the Ranks tab instead, and the change is applied in 30 seconds

A new Ranks tab in the panel manages your groups, their permissions and their inheritance, and the group of each player, straight from the panel. You do not need to be in the game.

The Ranks tab of the Alama panel (shown here in French): the list of groups with their parent group and their privileges, then the form that puts a player, given by SteamID64, into a group

Changes reach the server in under 30 seconds, and the history keeps who changed what, with the value before and after.

The orders sent to the server and the change history, in the Ranks tab (shown here in French): each line says what was done, by whom and when, with the value before and after

Four steps: you pick the group in the Ranks tab, the panel sends an order to the server, the server applies it in under 30 seconds, and the history keeps who changed what

If your server already runs ULX, SAM, xAdmin or ServerGuard, the tab shows your groups as they are, read-only. We do not touch what another admin tool manages.

DarkRP in one click

The Extensions tab has a new Game modes category, and DarkRP is the first one in it. Before you confirm, the panel shows you its licence and its source, so you know what you are installing and where it comes from. Your darkrpmodification is never overwritten: what you configured stays yours.

See how many people play, over time

The status page of your server now draws a curve of the players online, sampled every five minutes. It appears on your own screen and on the public page, if you chose to publish it.

The players curve of a test server over the last 24 hours (shown here in French): a peak of 25 players, an average of 11.7, and a gap where the server was stopped

A stopped server, or a game that does not answer, leaves a gap in the curve, not a zero. A gap means "we do not know", and a zero would say something false. Click the picture to see it full size.

Script errors, sorted

Lua errors raised by your add-ons now arrive in a journal where they are grouped by add-on and counted, with the most frequent ones first, each with its full stack. When you have dealt with one, mark it as resolved, and the list gets shorter.

The script errors journal on a test server (shown here in French): each error with its add-on, its count and the time it was last seen, and the full stack of the first one with a button to mark it as resolved

Addresses and secrets are masked before an error leaves your server, so you can share a screenshot of this list with an add-on author. Click the picture to see it full size.

Pick your map from a list

On a Garry's Mod server, the startup screen now offers the maps and the game modes that your server really has. You can still type any other name if you want one that is not in the list. A new Server config tab lets you edit the server's config file from the panel.

Updates keep your settings

When you update one of our extensions, your config.lua is put back, instead of being reset to the defaults. No more reconfiguring after an update.

Add-on security goes deeper

The Add-on security tab has a new button for a full analysis. It reads every file of your add-ons, one at a time, and tells you plainly whether everything was read, so you know what the result covers.

In the shop and on the site

No player limit. No offer shows a player count any more. You set the slots yourself, within what your server's RAM and disk can carry.

A clearer order page. It now explains tier, RAM, disk, backups, Java and Bedrock in plain words, and names the server software once, instead of on every tier.

The order page for Garry's Mod: the explanation of what a tier is, and what RAM, disk, backups and players mean

The Garry's Mod Free tier: 1 GB RAM, no player limit, 5 GB disk, 2 backups

Write to us without an account. The contact form is now reachable from the help pages, the login page and the footer, even when you are not signed in. The footer also links to our support Discord.

Easier with a screen reader or a keyboard. Field errors are read aloud, the language list works from the keyboard, and links that open a new tab say so.

Terms in your language. The terms are now available in every language of the site, linked from the shop footer.

Three new guides on the blog

If you missed them, we published three guides on the blog recently:

Thanks for playing with us, and keep the reports coming. If something here does not work for you, write to us: we read everything.