I would love to help figure out how to fix steam auth but I don't like the playerbase being split like this.
yeah this is a valid point, but.. there's nothing we can do on our side to stop this from being an issue. unless if the actual master server supported all versions (with errors when trying to join other versions instead of confusing crashes) or if somehow we got everyone to move to our master server (won't ever happen) there's no way to get older versions back
without splitting the community
i completely understand the issue with splitting a playerbase - it makes both sides seem dead and i definitely know this from the activity of the b4v21 master server, but there's honestly nothing we could do to solve this while being able to play older versions on multiplayer
could an add-on that sends a request for both master servers and then merge both lists together be a solution? that's up to opinion.
EDIT: actually nah because players are still split between versions, which i imagine a lot of people would still consider splitting the playerbase
Uh, is that a thing? I haven't noticed any split in the player base due to this project.
not right now, but lets say half of everyone on v21 moved to our master server: that would make the v21 master server seem way more empty, making the game seem more empty because not all the servers are on the same list. the issue is that we have two sides of blockland where, because both sides have less players each then blockland does as a whole right now, it makes the game feel more dead.