StarvedKasad Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 So I didn't have internet connection for a few days and I noticed how I cannot play my 350 don't starve together hosted game because I'm offline.I had a few questions regarding this matter: 1]Why do I have to constantly be online to play my world? 2]Why is this not fixed yet? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarvedKasad Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 Did I write this really really bad,or people just don't know?Maybe they don't care? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumina Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I'm not sure if world set to "offline" could be set to online after, maybe there is a reason why you choose what setting you want when creating a world. Also, i think i remember an option to put an online world to offline but it was irreversible if i remember well, so not an option if you just want to play alone a couple of days and with friends after that. Why it's this way ? I totally don't know, maybe some technicals issues ? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electroely Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 It's for security. On an offline world, people can easily connect using a cracked version of Don't Starve Together through LAN. Online worlds check if you have a Klei account, a Steam account, and if whether you're already connected to the server or not. Why a world can't be switched from online to offline and vice-versa is beyond my understanding. Hopefully someone with more knowledge could explain this. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarvedKasad Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 How can people connect easily via a cracked verison of Don't starve together? The cracked versions are always outdated. I thought there was a version mismatch problem,which would partially solve the issue. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer nome Posted January 29, 2017 Developer Share Posted January 29, 2017 17 hours ago, Electroely said: It's for security. On an offline world, people can easily connect using a cracked version of Don't Starve Together through LAN. Online worlds check if you have a Klei account, a Steam account, and if whether you're already connected to the server or not Close. Online worlds check you are who you say you are (using your steamid, PSN ID, Tencent Rail ID, etc, etc) while offline worlds just let you claim to be whomsoever you please, including people already in the game. It's fine if you're playing a friendly LAN game with your sister, but you wouldn't want to expose that to public play where you could be anonymously griefed by someone kicking you from your own server all day long and have absolutely nothing you could do about it. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarvedKasad Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 1 hour ago, nome said: Close. Online worlds check you are who you say you are (using your steamid, PSN ID, Tencent Rail ID, etc, etc) while offline worlds just let you claim to be whomsoever you please, including people already in the game. It's fine if you're playing a friendly LAN game with your sister, but you wouldn't want to expose that to public play where you could be anonymously griefed by someone kicking you from your own server all day long and have absolutely nothing you could do about it. What if playing on online hosts was allowed offline for single player use only? A message that prompts "you can only play single player game in online worlds while offline". Or is there some issue here as well? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer nome Posted January 29, 2017 Developer Share Posted January 29, 2017 There are things we could in theory do, it all boils down to resources. Doing that feature would take a bunch of programmer time and would mean we don't do something else, something that would maybe please more people. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rily Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 you can actually switch the online mode to offline mode in the cluster.ini file I think (it worked the last time I did it), however I don't understand very well why this cannot be switched in game, but as @nome said I think this is unnecesary right now, the ones who need that feature (I am included) are just a few, lets wait until the game is finished and klei team is a bit less busy to ask for this feature again Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarvedKasad Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 I'd sacrifice this feature for a less delay when using caves tbh. But I fear that would require even greater resources,the size of..rewriting the entire game in a more advanced language? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesyBuesy Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 On 1/28/2017 at 6:20 PM, Electroely said: It's for security. On an offline world, people can easily connect using a cracked version of Don't Starve Together through LAN. Online worlds check if you have a Klei account, a Steam account, and if whether you're already connected to the server or not. Why a world can't be switched from online to offline and vice-versa is beyond my understanding. Hopefully someone with more knowledge could explain this. I think it has to do with the naming conventions of the user. In offline mode, the user's data is saved in a file/folder named OU_BunchO'Numbers (OU = offline user), but when you're online, it's saved in a file/folder named KU_BunchO'Numbers (KU = klei user). You could open up your saveindex file and manually assign online_mode to true/false for whatever slot you want, but you'll lose your character's save data since your user identification will change, and the save data you had before will no longer be relevant. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer nome Posted January 30, 2017 Developer Share Posted January 30, 2017 It can be done. It is in no way against Klei's terms of service for you to convert your world from offline to online. We have even given vague instructions for doing so in the past. However, it's not something we've ever had time to automate, and we don't want people messing up the reasonably complex process and then coming to us for tech support on fixing their broken world. So it's unsupported. Feel free to do it, but only if you're sufficiently technical that you understand what you're doing and won't look to us to fix it. Much like mods. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73672-about-onlineoffline-worlds/#findComment-862426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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