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| M:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on November 20, 2009, 01:53:44 PM ---However with Blockland, you're operating with two possible variables - either the IP or the player's name. Both of these can often be subject to regular change, especially the IP because not many ISPs will give their residential customers a static ip. Furthermore, Blockland servers tend to change their themes quite regularly so you may favourite a CityRP one day and come back in a week to find the only thing in your list is "Freebuild, first here gets admin" and you think "wtf?" --- End quote --- You already have an ID list. Make RTB, when you start the game and the first time you refresh your favorites in any ten-minute period, post to you the names of the BL_IDs you have favorited servers of. Then filter the list by those names. And when you favorite a server (presumedly from ingame or via the server info GUI) get the ID associated with the host's name. Or of course, an RTB server tag system would be quite useful. Allow users to filter by tags, and use a list of tags you can select from. Some could be: * Team Deathmatch * Deathmatch * RPG * Events * Freebuild * Medieval Themebuild * Futuristic Themebuild * Modern Themebuild * CitybuildThere's likely a lot of other tags you could use, but by combining these tags you could probably get a decent idea of what a server is about (providing the host has accurate tags on - of course, if they don't, it's up to the user to determine things. Just because the system is there doesn't mean is has to be a catch-all idiot-proof system) |
| Destiny/Zack0Wack0:
If RTB was to include a favourite server list, it should be associated with RTB Connect - not an entire new module for RTB. |
| Space Guy:
--- Quote from: M on November 21, 2009, 01:19:37 AM ---You already have an ID list. Make RTB, when you start the game and the first time you refresh your favorites in any ten-minute period, post to you the names of the BL_IDs you have favorited servers of. Then filter the list by those names. And when you favorite a server (presumedly from ingame or via the server info GUI) get the ID associated with the host's name. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Space Guy on November 20, 2009, 02:22:36 PM ---When setting a server as a favourite, use the RTB list to find the BL_ID associated with the player's name. Loading the list of favourite servers looks up each ID you have on the RTB list to see if there's a server with their current name. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Destiny/Zack0Wack0 on November 21, 2009, 01:24:26 AM ---If RTB was to include a favourite server list, it should be associated with RTB Connect - not an entire new module for RTB. --- End quote --- Something like "Join Friend's Game", "View Server Info", "Invite to Game", etc. from Steam would be nice. |
| Ephialtes:
That is the second time I've had to remove a chain of derailing posts from this thread. Don't do it. |
| Ephialtes:
I've been making a bunch of changes to our chat server again to make sure it can store and hand out details about what server a user is on, since a "Join this player's server" button or whatever is obviously a really handy feature. I'm also re-coding RTB again for fun and changing the naming schemes/layout around a bit to de-duplicate a lot of code and hopefully make it execute a bit faster. Everything will be backwards compatible so no mods need changing for v4. And I'm also looking for a reliable method to bring mocheeze back from the dead for a few days to do the styling for the rtb overlay that we discussed a while back. Some of the ideas you guys were kicking around sound quite decent so I'll have a think about some reliable ways to implement a few of them. |
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