Itās actually pretty simple after scoping out the basic info. Hereās a few links that helped me:
sibomots & zmlās posts in this thread, #591 & #592 I believeā¦
Example provided by zml in that post.
MoeBoy76ās Quick Reference.
We can create āblankā groups by using a prefix as HassanS6000 said above:
/pex group [Group_Name] option prefix [Prefix]
or we can create groups with fake permission nodes:
/pex group [Group_Name] perm [FAKE.PERMISSION.TRUE] true
/pex group [Group_Name] perm [FAKE.PERMISSION.FALSE] false
Helps a lot with visualizing the .json and beginning editing it manually!
Edit:
If youāre working in-game and you may want to give yourself the ā*ā equivalent first through the console with:
/pex user [Username] def true
Edit2:
@zml
I canāt seem to figure out ladders.
Iām using a similar setup that you helped sibomots with, however, Iām trying to add a rank on the ladder under the rank that Iāve set as default for new players on joining. The only problem is that when I promote the user, they get moved into the ladder āa rank downā and I have to promote them three times to actually move them up to where they should be.
Group1 --group that inherits equivalent of -ā*ā (no permissions) from another group.
Group2 --default on join
Group3 --Desired group after doing /promote user [username], but they only end up here after 3 promotes: Group1 ā Group2 ā Group3ā¦
Commands Iāve run:
/pex group GROUP1 option prefix GROUP1 --create Group1
/pex default user parent add group [GROUP1] --set Group1 as default for new players on join
/pex group GROUP2 option prefix [GROUP2] --create Group2
/pex group GROUP3 option prefix [GROUP3] --create Group3
/pex rank default add group GROUP1
/pex rank default add group GROUP2
/pex rank default add group GROUP3
I came across p0wd3rās post and even tried:
/pex rank default add -1 GROUP1
/pex rank default add 0 GROUP2
/pex rank default add 1 GROUP3
but the results were the sameā¦
Is there a way to make PEX start new users on first join at a specific rank on the ladder? It seems that
/pex default user parent add group [GROUP1]
doesnt do itā¦
Help is greatly appreciated!
Edit3: (sorry for the wall of text Iāve created 
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I think I found somewhat of a solution to this. Iāve done the same setup, but I put GROUP1 in its own separate ladder.
The issue is that new players arenāt put on any ladder at the correct group position on join.
default: GROUP2, GROUP3, GROUPN
ladder2: GROUP1
Now new users that are in GROUP2 on join get promoted to GROUP3 without a problem on the first run of
/promote user [username]
Running /promote user [username] ladder2 on the same user puts them in ladder2 in GROUP1, and running /demote user [username] ladder2 removes them from GROUP1 on ladder2. During the time that the user is in ladder2 in GROUP1, PEX still has the user registered on the default ladder, so the whole time theyāve been on default ladder in GROUP3.
tl;dr - Couldnāt find documentation on this anywhere, trying to make a jail group for players that misbehaveā¦:
(e.g.)
1. I have GROUPS2-GROUPS10 on the default ladder, and GROUP1 on separate ladder named ladder2
2. New user joins with parent group GROUP2, user is promoted to GROUP3 (all on default ladder)
3. Promote user on ladder2 while they are in GROUP3 of the default ladder
In the permissions file the user now has 2 parent groups and exists in 2 ladders.
4. Promote the user on the default ladder twice (GROUP5)
5. (chat prefix (Hassan's essentialcmds) still shows PEX prefix for user as GROUP1 on ladder2)
6. Demote user on ladder2 'removing them from ladder2'
7. PEX prefix of GROUP5 of default ladder is shown on user.
Iām still testing this out, but does anyone know if (in the above scenario), at:
#3, Does the user still inherits permissions from GROUP3 on the default ladder?, or is inheritance in a heiarchy of parent groups?
#4, Does the user inherit permissions from GROUP5 now? or are they still permissionless from being in GROUP1?
What happens if user has multiple parent groups?
I guess my solution to having a ājailā group is to do the above setup, promote user to jail group on ladder 2, and manually remove them from standard groups on my default ladder (if they still inherit permissions from them.)ā¦