Donator Ranks

Hey, sorry to sound like a noob but I have been trying to setup my first server and having been working on donator ranks. But the problem is I can't seem to have them and another rank, I tried setting myself into a subgroup as one of the donators but it doesn't work, I can set it as a normal group but if I promoted someone they would lose the rank. I have looked up on google and youtube how to do this but there is nothing there on how to do this. If someone could just tel me how I can have someone in two groups that would be great
Thanks in advance

 

which plugin are you using? (The best one in my opinion is GroupManager)

 

I am strongly against GroupManager. Use PermissionsEx, it is by far the best permissions manager I have ever seen

 

Oh sorry I was meant to put that in, I use group manager

 

Oh, I don't know how group manager works, but what I would do is set it up where donators inherit player perks and simply change ranks.

 

That would be an idea so I would do something like HelperDonor

 

capn_cabbage You need to use inheritance

zachoooo Why? I feel like GroupManager is a good plugin?
I cannot personally say anything about PEX, but I've heard nasty things:
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/whats-with-all-the-permissionsex-hate.91135/#post-1261628

 

It's hard to explain, so I'll make an analogy. GroupManager is to Mac like PermissionsEx is to Linux.

 

and I feel Mac is superior (ease of use mostly)

 

So I guess its personal opinion. I would choose Linux over Mac any day simply because Mac falls quite short in extreme customization and advanced user options. Ease of use may be an advantage of GroupManager, but it doesn't have the extreme customization that I enjoy with PermissionsEx

 

I can agree with that. Macs don't have the most options, but other OSs are better in most aspects. But with macs, I know we won't get something stupid like Windows 8

 

just give donator group as a subgroup.


zachoooo in what way pex allows more customization? multiworld permissions exists in GM (and in more advanced way) aswell as all the standard permissions features.

 

• Native SuperPermission support with no bridge needed!
• Multiple types of backends supported. Currently included backends: File (YAML) and SQL (MySQL, SQLite). It's also possible to add your own.
• YAML backend, with a new config scheme design. Now all user, groups and their permissions are stored in one file - permission.yml. The file name used can be changed as well. (see Plugin Configuration)
• SQL backend, most delicious. Currently MySQL and SQLite is supported, but other DB-Servers (like Postgres) are possible. PEX deploys the DB scheme (tables and initial data) automatically. This means that you only need to provide data on how to connect to the database, everything else will PEX handle by itself.
• Flexible architecture and API - you can change a lot programmatically. (see Native API example)
• Compatibility layer with TheYeti's Permissions version 2.7.4, implemented as a separate plugin. Most plugins that use Permissions 2/3 will also work with the PEX Compatibility Layer plugin. (See Installation)
• Rich chat/console command interface. You can do almost everything ingame or from the server console. (See Commands section)
• A restrictions mechanism we call "ModifyWorld", implemented as a separate plugin, provides very fine grained control over the players abilities and events. Actions such as destroying/placing blocks, riding carts and boats, getting spotted by mobs, and much more, can be enabled or disabled (think of it as anti-build plus!). Disabled by default. (see ModifyWorld) *Multi-group inheritance. Users can be a member of several groups, and inherit their permissions, options and prefix/suffix. (see Basic Permissions Setup and Advanced Permissions Setup)
• Permission nodes based upon regular expressions. This mean you can use regular expressions to combine multiple nodes into a single one, saving space and making it easier to manage your permissions. (See Advanced Permissions Setup)
• Multi-World permissions. Don't specify the world and permissions will work in any world (global permissions). See the Multiworld section of the Advanced Permissions setup page for more.
• Easy migration from Permissions 2.x (Permissions 3 requires manually converting the file back to a Permissions 2.x format)! Converters for both YAML and SQL are embedded into PermissionsCompat. Just use simple instructions as described in Migrate from Permissions.
• Performance friendly. Low-level caching helps a lot when you have 100+ online users
• Promotion/Demotion system. You can assign ranks to groups and promote/demote users to higher/lower ranked group.
• More to come ... stay tuned

Just look at that. And thats not even close to all the features it has

 

I have always disliked groupmanager and any of that essentials pack, I guess its just my bias. When I first used GroupManager it was terrible, buggy, unsupportive, and lacking in features. Perhaps it has changed.

 

When you say unsupportive, what do you mean? It has a permissions bridge now

 

Few plugins supported it a while ago. and maybe it has changed

 

I am strongly against PermissionsEx. Use GroupManager, it is by far the best permissions manager I have ever seen

 

GroupManager is a superperms permission plugin..

before superperms, it used permissions bridge, any plugin that supported permission 2/3 supported groupmanager.

 

Use pex every time group manager is the past, forget it.

 

yet groupmanager still gets actively updated while PEX is stuck on 1.19.4..?

 

might want to consider leaning how to run a server b4 trying to get people to donate >_> just saying