Originally posted by La Chest:

Devcommands only work when you are the host of the session.

Meaning, devcommands don't work on dedicated servers since the server is hosting the game and you are only a peer, even with admin rights.

You can get around it by either

- transfer the savefile to your local machine, run in SP, modify what you want to modify and transfer it back to the server

or

- use a cheat mod

How are you supposed to admin servers hosted on remote data centers? Start a telnet session?

And what is the use of the adminlist.txt file on the server if not to let remote clients have admin right?

if it really is limited in the way you describe then whoever programmed the server at IG is completely incompetent since it goes against every single concept of a "server" I've ever heard of in 20+ years managing corporate server rooms.