Administrator

An Administrator (usually "admin") in the Tremulous world is someone who has the ability to alter the game server situation in ways that a normal player can not.

Example for a low level admin ability: They can use the "allready" command to continue on to the next match at the end of the current match, when the server is waiting for 30 seconds or until everyone has acknowledged that they are ready to move on.

Example for a more advanced admin ability: They can "ban" players from a server so that they cannot connect any more.

Example for a high level admin ability: They can set the admin level of players, hence make someone to an admin, give them more commands or entirely take their admin status away.

Whether or not someone is an administrator or how high of an admin they are is defined by the admin level. An admin level of 0 does not mean that someone is an admin with few abilities. It means that the person is not an admin at all. A level of 1 usually also does not mean that someone is an admin. It rather means that a person has registered themselves to the server so that their name is now protected from anyone else having the same. An admin level of 3 can still mean that the person is not an admin but rather someone who is acknowledged as a "nice player". Where "being an admin" really begins is different from server to server because which abilities a certain level has or what name a certain level is called can be defined by the server maintainers (highest level admins).

Oftentimes, people claim that they are admin just because they have an "admin level" of 1 or 3, but the "admin level" number is, as described, only a one-fits-all solution for the rights problem.

The original Tremulous 1.1.0 client does not have a GUID, so it's impossible for a user of such a client to be an admin or even just a registered player on any server. Most other Tremulous clients, however, do have the GUID feature.

If you want to be an admin on a server, the usual way is to visit the WWW forum of that server and to write an application in the right forum section and in the right format, so you have to study the forum a bit before your apply. Many people just ask while playing on the server, and that's not a good way. One of the reasons for that is that the currently present admins have to tell the 100th person that the forum is the right place to ask.