Alternating SteamID's Or Stupidity

[xomaxhox]

Recently my friend had been creating a map and was going to test it with others, however the rules he asked of them were simply overlooked which resulted in me creating a very quick gamemode to limit what we needed

I created a function in shared to only return true if the players SteamID matched that of the ones in the code:
[lua]local PMETA = FindMetaTable( "Player" )

function PMETA:HasAdminPower()

return self:SteamID() == "STEAM_0:1:26086634" or self:SteamID() == "STEAM_0:0:31884175"

end[/lua]

However, it seemed this had only been working on the clientside functions and then serverside had no effect
So I created a simple code ingame in an attempt to debug the system by doing:
[lua]if SERVER then
print( "=================RUNNING SERVER STEAMID CHECK=================" )
elseif CLIENT then
print( "=================RUNNING CLIENT STEAMID CHECK=================" )
end

if ( player.GetByID(1):SteamID() == "STEAM_0:0:31884175" then print( "True" ) else print( "False" ) end[/lua]

And when running this shared I got the result in console of:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/SteamID_Checking.png[/img]

So my SteamID clientside returns true, but it returns false serverside

Am I just being stupid now, or has something gone VERY wrong? (Please let it be the last :P)

[Brandan]

If you only need it for serverside, try using UniqueID.

[fnox]

You could have solved this out quite easily by making it print the SteamID it's fetching.

On singleplayer games, your serverside SteamID will be STEAM_0:0:0. Try on a listen server and you'll see your SteamID fetching correctly.

[TheFreeman193]

Are you testing this in [B]Single Player[/B]? player:SteamID() returns [I]STEAM_0:0:0[/I] serverside when run in Single Player.

[editline]15th July 2011[/editline]
Ah, beat me to it :v:

[xomaxhox]

Ah, it has been done in single player, so thanks for telling me that it was my stupidity that made this fail :P