[request] limit characters

[subzero22]

I been trying to find a certain mod, and if it exists then I can't find it. I would like to have a mod so if someone is playing one character another player can't play that same character. So you don't get like 3-4 wigfrids for example.

[Maris]

What if someone join as wigfrid, then goes offline. Nobody can play as wigfrid?

​And if you let abyone to play as wigfrid if there is no active wigfrids..., what if that dude goes online again? 2+ wigfrids will be on the server. 

 

So if two friends want to play as wigfrid, one of them will take it, then will go offline, then another will take it too, then first friend will go online.

[subzero22]

well then when someone rejoins they would go to the character select screen. Not sure if its possible to do that while keeping your items or maybe add the feature to drop your stuff when you leave and do a reset command so they go to char select when they rejoin?

I was thinking of this mod more for rp reasons than long time survival or for friends type thing it wouldn't be for everyone.

[RealStarver]

I agree with @Maris it's quite complicated with random people joining and leaving...also if I join the server as Wilson, and then leave and someone else joins the server as Wilson and I want to rejoin but the character select screen welcomes me I would be super pissed because I can't play the character I want also I loose all my progress just because someone else also wanted to play as Wilson.... I would probably leave the server period......I understand your RP idea, but I think it's almost impossible any other way then kick the player immediately if he/she tries to join as a character which already there...but then again it would be rude and not really player friendly

Edited July 22, 2015 by RealStarver

[blubuild]

It's a little complicated, but it's still easy to come up with a working design for it.

Mid-game character switching doesn't necessitate losing everything and starting over (it even exists in the singleplayer Don't Starve...), only that you may lose progress specific to your current character (such as beard length or WX upgrades), if the new character doesn't have those same specific properties too - and even then, it can be done so that it's kept if you later switch back to a character that does.

A player selecting a character and logging out could have it reserved to him for an amount of time (unless he's banned). You could also allow configuring rules to allow 2 instances of a character, etc.

Something more basic that should've been there from the start (I hope it exists now, I haven't verified if it does) is allowing disabling specific characters in the server configuration.