ATG Link

ATG Link connects an Arma Reforger server to the ATG API - the service behind ATG's Discord integration. Three things rest on that connection. IDENTITY The API establishes that the server at a given address really is the one its owner enrolled. It sends a challenge, the server answers from a secret only the two of them hold, and the secret never crosses the connection. Nothing else works until this succeeds. THE GATE A server can require that players have linked their game account before they are allowed to deploy, or merely tell them how. Three modes: off, nag and block. The gate applies at the spawn rather than at the connection, so a player who is turned away can still join and look around. It is subtractive - whatever the base game or another mod already refuses stays refused. By default a player is admitted when the check itself cannot be completed. A server that locks its whole membership out because a web service blinked is worse off than one that briefly admits somebody unregistered. MODERATION A ban issued from Discord reaches the server, and the server hands it to Bohemia's ban service. SETTINGS One JSON file at $profile:ATG/atg-link.json: the registration secret you were issued, the gate mode and the fail-open switch. It is read directly on the server and is never sent to a client, so the secret stays off the wire. The mod ships inert. With nothing configured it registers its commands, reports that it is not configured, and does nothing else. It never contacts anything on its own - the API opens the connection, over RCON, and this mod only answers. LOAD ORDER Load ATG Core and ATG Commands BEFORE this mod. Both are found by load order rather than declared as dependencies, so a server that orders this mod ahead of either comes up with no commands at all - and with no commands, nothing can reach it. ATG UI is optional and also found by load order. Loaded before this mod, the gate and the nag appear on screen as a card as well as in chat, which matter...