Just drop the client and develop it later as an optional downloadable content? The greatness of lugormod, ja+ and so on comes with a pure serversided mod which allows each player (with and without clientsided modification or alternate userinterfance) to join the party What about cvar? You can still store those Information into a bitfield. g_skillpoints "6" // 0 = admin only, 1 = killing player, 2 = killing npc, 4 = killing faction marked as hostile