For communities

WARDOGS server admin guides

Written for the people who run the servers. Each one ends in something you can do on this site.

• How to set up WARDOGS RCON (and why a shared password is a problem)

  What RCON is in WARDOGS, how the approved hosts expose it, what the single password can do, and how to give every admin their own login instead.

• WARDOGS whitelist and reserved slots across multiple servers

  How a WARDOGS whitelist works, how to keep one list across every server you run, how a clan roster carries a grant, and how seeding rules hand out slots.

• WARDOGS admin roles: who can kick, ban and change maps

  How to give WARDOGS server admins real roles instead of the RCON password: the built-in ladder, custom roles, seats, Discord role mapping and two-factor.

• WARDOGS ban lists: your own, shared lists, and how a ban reaches the server

  How bans work on a WARDOGS community server: kicks, warns and bans with evidence, subscribing to shared ban lists, and what the audit log records.

• Getting your WARDOGS server's matches onto public leaderboards

  How a WARDOGS community server gets its matches counted on BulletMeta's public stats: the free stats-only option, enrollment, what is recorded and what is not.

How the stats work

For players and operators alike: what the boards count, and what they do not.

• How WARDOGS rating works

  Glicko-2: a rating, and a measure of how sure we are about it. Kills do not move it.

• How the WARDOGS leaderboards are built

  Player and clan boards, and why the rating board averages while the rest sum.

• How WARDOGS stats are collected

  What a server already reports, read every few seconds. No client mod, no overlay.