Question Multiplayer Dedicated - When no drivers on server

Discussion in 'Community Support' started by Stefan Mizzi, Jul 7, 2016.

  1. Stefan Mizzi

    Stefan Mizzi Well-Known Member

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    Hi Sector3!

    Thank you for giving us this API as you had mentioned in this forum section :)

    I have one question/request please. Currently, a MP session would only start (that this, the time starts ticking) when a player joins. So until a player joins, it would be like on pause.

    Is there (or will there be!) a setting somewhere where if no one joins, the MP session still starts ticking? This would be ideal to have a dedicated server with a standard session schedule as, as it is now this is impossible.

    Thank you for taking the time to read this and looking forward to your feedback! :)

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    Cheers
    Stefan
     
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  2. Sonat Ozturk

    Sonat Ozturk Well-Known Member

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    It's not something we had in mind but we might look into making it optional sure.
     
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  3. tobias.schlottbohm

    tobias.schlottbohm Member

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    +1 (it is really a bit annoying in terms of convenience; if you organize a league and want the race session to start at 8PM but want to have 120mins practice upfront, you will launch the server at 6PM. But if the first player joins at 7PM, race will start at 9PM which will force you to restart the server inbetween...)

    rFactor1/2 has an option "Do not idle when nobody is connected", AC servers start right away...so actually I see no good reason why NOT to just run the session instantly when it started.
     
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  4. Stefan Mizzi

    Stefan Mizzi Well-Known Member

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    Thank you Sonat :) Really appreciate your feedback and looking forward to it!