Help wanted / HowTo: Dedicated hosting

[Licho]

Also /kill - can it be done so that it exits clients instead od displaying stats screen?
It would be very usefull for rehosting early - often people are AFK and rehost fails because people failed to close spring and cant join rehosted game.

[Auswaschbar]

Also /kill - can it be done so that it exits clients instead od displaying stats screen?
It would be very usefull for rehosting early - often people are AFK and rehost fails because people failed to close spring and cant join rehosted game.

No

[Licho]

Why does it work without dedicated then?
If host exits game before game starts, clients quit instantly..

[Licho]

Also it seems that dedicated is sending "ready" to autohost even before people select point and click ready

[bibim]

Currently, the dedicated server only sends PLAYER_JOINED messages when players manage to get in the game, not when they really connect on the socket. However, when a player timeouts, the dedicated server sends PLAYER_LEFT message. So if the player timeouts at start, without getting in the game, then the autohost receive a PLAYER_LEFT message with an unknown playerId since the PLAYER_JOINED message hasn't been received.

Also it seems that dedicated is sending "ready" to autohost even before people select point and click ready

Are you sure ? It seems to work for me: the dedicated server sends "PLAYER_READY,<playerId>,0" to set ready status to 0 when player joins, then it sends "PLAYER_READY,<playerId>,1" when player clicks on ready.

[Auswaschbar]

Why does it work without dedicated then?
If host exits game before game starts, clients quit instantly..

Didn't remember it does this when hosting normal. Will fix it when I have time.

[Licho]

Also it seems that dedicated is sending "ready" to autohost even before people select point and click ready

Are you sure ? It seems to work for me: the dedicated server sends "PLAYER_READY,<playerId>,0" to set ready status to 0 when player joins, then it sends "PLAYER_READY,<playerId>,1" when player clicks on ready.

This used to work for me up until recent versions.
Note that I run dedicated server without actual map or mod file.

[Mephistos]

Spads development went in stand-by mode some time ago, due to various reasons (new Lobby server coming, dedicated server no longer compiling with scons, BuildServ evolutions, less free time etc.). I will go back working on it, but not right now. And I don't think it's really a problem for AutoHost owners, since Springie works with dedicated server too.

I'd like to try an alternative to springie that doesn't involve coding in .NET if I need to make changes. This applies to Mono as well.

[Licho]

Also it seems that dedicated is sending "ready" to autohost even before people select point and click ready

Are you sure ? It seems to work for me: the dedicated server sends "PLAYER_READY,<playerId>,0" to set ready status to 0 when player joins, then it sends "PLAYER_READY,<playerId>,1" when player clicks on ready.

This used to work for me up until recent versions.
Note that I run dedicated server without actual map or mod file.

This works, probably some wrong going experiment with dedicated server.

[very_bad_soldier]

I tried and failed to compile the dedicated server with Debian. I did a complete checkout of the spring-svn from svn://caspring.org:3691/trunk and ran cmake like stated in the first post.
This is what I get:

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nxxs@stan:~/spring/trunk/tools/DedicatedServer$ cmake . && make
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:49 (install):
  install TARGETS given no LIBRARY DESTINATION for shared library target
  "springserver".


CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
  No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code such as

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)

  should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified may be lower
  if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.  For more
  information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring done

What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

[Auswaschbar]

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cd ~/spring/trunk/
cmake .
make spring-dedicated

[andre]

Can you also add a replay-saving feature to the dedicated server (it could also use a cli-argument to enable it if someone doesn't want replays of the dedicated server)

[Licho]

Yeah, this would be great.
Better yet as a script options.

[andre]

I want ask again for a replay support of the dedicated server.. so it would be possible to generate some statistics for autohosts out of them.

[Licho]

Andre, if you want ingame statistics, its now possible to send data from spring to springie. Its being used by planetwars.

But you need modside support for this (to send you data)