ER:LC

Sessions

Polls, startups, boosts, planned sessions and shutdowns, posted for your players, with numbers for every session you ran.

A session is a stretch of roleplay on your ER:LC server. Jellyn posts each step of it in your Discord, pings the roles you pick, and counts how it went.

Running a session

Open a poll (optional)
/session poll asks who will join. Players vote with a button; when enough have voted, start the session. votes: changes how many are needed this time.
Start it
/session start posts the startup and pings your session roles. Startup, boost and full-server posts have a Join the server button with the join code.
Boost it
/session boost asks for more players while it runs, at most every 10 minutes.
Shut it down
/session shutdown ends it, or cancels the open poll. It can end everyone's shifts and shut the game down too, if you set it up that way.

/session status shows the current session, and /session schedule in:2h note:Training night plans one ahead: Jellyn posts when it will be, in each reader's own time zone.

The same buttons are on the Sessions page of the dashboard.

The Sessions page

Overview

For all staff:

The session right now (closed, poll open or live) with its numbers and buttons: open a poll, start now (with another area of play), boost, shut down (press twice).
Coming up: sessions planned ahead, a form to plan one, and a way to cancel each. A planned session is a minute to 30 days ahead, 10 at a time.
Analytics: tiles with a small line of each number over time.
Past sessions: open one for its players, the most at once, the average, mod calls, commands, players over time, and what happened when.

Settings

For the Session settings permission, saved together:

Where Jellyn posts, and who startups, polls and boosts ping (roles, and @here or @everyone).
Pinging everyone who voted, and the votes needed.
Posting once the server is full.
Ending shifts at shutdown.
Ending the session once the server stays empty (on by default: only after people played, once nobody was in game for 3 minutes).
Shutting the game down too: a :m message, then :kick all 10 seconds later.
Kicking players who aren't moderators while no session runs.
The usual area of play, and what happens outside it (see Automations).

Channel locks

Up to 5 text or forum channels can be locked while no session runs: hidden, or read-only, and opened again when a session starts. Jellyn keeps how each channel was and puts it back exactly.

Jellyn needs Manage Roles to lock channels. It only ever changes channels of your own server.

Your own posts Jellyn+

Write your own startup, poll, planned session, full server, shutdown and boost posts: each a title, text, small print, colour and picture, with a preview. Messages when a channel locks or opens are Jellyn+ too.

Words in braces are filled in when Jellyn posts:

Word	Becomes
`{user}`	Who ran it
`{players}`, `{maxplayers}`, `{queue}`	Players in game, the most it takes, the queue
`{servername}`, `{code}`, `{joinlink}`	The server's name, its join code, and a link to join
`{aop}`	The area of play
`{votes}`, `{votesrequired}`	Votes so far, and votes needed
`{time}`	Now, as a Discord timestamp
`{scheduledtime}`	When a planned session starts

{time} and {scheduledtime} take a Discord timestamp style after them: t, T, d, D, f, F or R (relative, like in 2 hours). See all of Jellyn's words on Placeholders.