How to Kick and Ban Players on Your Quake Live Server

You remove players through the console of your server in the dashboard, or directly in the game if you hold admin or moderator rights there.

Note

To learn how to grant rights to yourself and other players, see Add Admin.

Find the client ID

All of the commands below expect the client ID — the number the server assigns to a connected player.

1. Connect to your server
   Connect to your server in the game and open the console there.

2. List the players
   Enter the following command:

   /players

   The output shows every connected player with their client ID and their SteamID64.

Note

In the console of your server you enter the commands without a leading /. In the game you use the same commands with a leading /, for example /tempban 3.

Remove a player

Quake Live has no dedicated kick command. To remove a player, use tempban instead:

tempban 3

The player is removed from the server and cannot rejoin until the current map ends. After that, access is open again.

Warning

Widely circulated forms such as kick <PlayerName> do not work on a Quake Live server — there is no kick command, neither in the server console nor in the game. A kick is only available as a player vote (callvote kick or callvote clientkick). As an admin you remove players with tempban or ban.

Ban a player

ban 3

The player is removed immediately and locked out permanently. The ban is stored in the file /baseq3/access.txt, in the same format as the admin rights:

76561198012345678|ban

Lift a ban

If the player is still connected or is trying to reconnect, you can lift the ban directly from the console:

unban 3

For a player who is not on the server, remove the entry from the file instead:

1. Stop the server
   Stop your server via the dashboard.

2. Connect via SFTP
   Connect to your server via SFTP.

3. Edit access.txt
   Open the following file and delete the line containing the affected SteamID64 with the suffix |ban:

   /baseq3/access.txt

4. Start the server
   Save the file and start your server.

Important

Only edit access.txt while the server is stopped. The server rewrites the list before every map load — changes made while the server is running are lost in the process.

Command overview

Command	Description
/players (in game)	Show connected players with their client ID and SteamID64
tempban <client ID>	Remove a player from the server until the map ends
ban <client ID>	Ban a player permanently
unban <client ID>	Lift a ban
mute <client ID>	Mute a player
unmute <client ID>	Unmute a player
put <client ID> <red|blue|spectator>	Move a player to a team or to the spectators
lock [team] / unlock [team]	Lock or unlock teams
pause / unpause	Pause and resume the match
forceshuffle	Shuffle the teams
opsay <text>	Send a message to all players as the server operator
map <map> <factory>	Change the map and the game mode
quit	Shut down the server

Restrict kick votes

Players can put each other up for a vote with callvote kick. You can prevent that.

1. Stop the server
   Stop your server via the dashboard.

2. Open server.cfg
   Open the following file via SFTP:

   /baseq3/server.cfg

3. Disable the vote
   For g_voteFlags you add up the values of the votes you want to block. Kick votes have the value 16:

   set g_voteFlags "16"

   If you want to disable voting entirely, set the following instead:

   set g_allowVote "0"

4. Start the server
   Save the file and start your server.

Values for g_voteFlags

Value	Blocked vote
1	map
2	map_restart
4	nextmap
8	gametype (factory argument for callvote map)
16	kick
32	timelimit
64	fraglimit
128	shuffle
256	teamsize
512	cointoss/random
1024	loadouts
2048	end-game voting
4096	ammo (global)
8192	timers (item)

To block kick and map votes, for example, you calculate 16 + 1 = 17.