Adjust server details while ingame

[Kuldiin]

Sometimes I start a server with friends or open, and during the games progression we fancy alternating its status. At times we also fill every slot and need more open, or want to cap the amount allowed to login.

Could better control of the server amounts and its mode (friends/public) be made to allow better server conttol?

[Drakmour]

You can change number of players by rehosting your world.

[Kuldiin]

Which disconnects everyone on there. The ability to have more control while the server is operational is what I was looking for.

[Drakmour]

So start the server with max 6 players from start if you want random ppl to play. If you want to control who will play just pus password.

[Redpine]

It would be nice if a host could temporarily stop new players from joining the game, say, in the middle of winter when they'll just freeze to death anyway.

[Kuldiin]

So start the server with max 6 players from start if you want random ppl to play. If you want to control who will play just pus password.

 

I generally play with 10.

 

Once the rabble has filtered out and left early on its not unusal to find we are left with ten good people, but more want to join (ie from friends list), and the only way I could do that would be to pull the server down and set it to 15/20 etc.

 

Would prefer to be able to do this without disrupting everyone currently online.

[Drakmour]

Emmm 10 ppl? I only can make 6 ppl max when cr8 server...

[rezecib]

@Drakmour, tuning.lua:

		MAX_SERVER_SIZE = 6, 

But in reply to the thread, yeah, being able to do this would be pretty nice. I imagine it's trickier to solve on the back end than the front, otherwise it'd probably be in already. The next update is making certain changing details of servers available on the server listing, though, so the techniques should be there to change stuff like this...