Dedicated Server?

[finalfantasy]

Will there be self hostable dedicated servers?

[Bobman]

I think they would need a larger map for dedicated servers. The map is large for a few people but if you add more then 5 players it will get clustered and resources will be hard to find.

I'd like to see more islands and maybe an option for pvp village raids.

I also like how in valheim you could share worlds, which allows me and my bro to play off the same world, at different times which is a great way for people with only one computer to still play multi-player. Enshrouded does that too.

[SOI Sweeeet]

So disappointing. My friends and I bought the game tonight only to find that dedicated servers aren’t a thing. I didn’t research first as I assumed dedicated servers were standard for these types of multiplayer/coop games. We’ll be requesting a refund. This should never have went to EA with out the option. It’s like it was launched without the ability to move your character. Such a dumb decision.

[tomatenantenne]

for me and my friends it is bad without dedicated server. Because we do not have always time when the other one is online. OH GOD NO... multiplayer has no Autosave.. FUU.. all gone

[Nez]

Might be worth for you guys to take a look at the way Icarus is doing dedicated servers, the game simply unloads after a short while when the last person logs off.then when someone logs in again, the game picks up from where it was, and you can continue from where you (or the last person online) were.

[The DutchT]

main reason i will not support devs like this is for the may reason, they make a co-op game yet do not support servers... how dumb can you be...

[antifraction]

What about creating a shared save file system? Example like Grounded by Obsidian comes to mind. This would allow friends to share and play on a continuous world.

[Pengchon]

Publicado originalmente por Dutchwise:

main reason i will not support devs like this is for the may reason, they make a co-op game yet do not support servers... how dumb can you be...

You guys are crazy to ask for dedicated server, this game runs quick on time, 1 full day is less than 10 minutes of game play, you can't see the flaws to have this in dedicated server? The flaw is, you may log on, and your whole village are all dead from invaders, base destroyed, and depending on which of your friend are always in the game playing, you may log out in the summer, and find yourself the next day in the winter with nothing to prepare for.
I cannot see this game having a dedicated server, for these types of environment.

[Riot]

I would love to be able to have this in a persistent dedicated server, regarding the timeline/invasions etc. A solution would be the same way that other similar games do it - it's paused unless a player is online (however being a dedicated server would allow anyone to do that!)

Another would be to maybe run slower when no players are connected, or possibly rate limit invasions etc to a set number of players being online.

Just some ideas on how other games have done it, no need to re-invent the wheel.

[Major Incident]

Have to say atm we dont have any problems using p2p and are not missing a dedicated server in any way. P2p is passwordprotected and the hoster is online when the other players are online too. For us there is no real reason to setup a DS setting byside a possible .config to load. If this (later) is not true for p2p i would prefere a DS.

[Luck+Aimbot=Skill]

+1 for dedicated server, only possible way to play propperly, as specially in a group of 3++ the host can't be there all the time.

[Apokh]

I prefer official servers with a persistant world. A good system is like Myth of Empires but with more than 2 weeks upkeep so someone still can go to vacation in real life.

[Major Incident]

So, maybe you dont have noticed...This is for 4 players max... this is not aka ARK

[Apokh]

Yup, and that's the problem with most of the survival games. Co-op only for a few players in the steam friends list.

[finalfantasy]

Publicado originalmente por Apokh:

Yup, and that's the problem with most of the survival games. Co-op only for a few players in the steam friends list.

That's not a problem, that's a decision.

PvP or MMO has many additional and/or different requirements that just may not be the focus of the developers. Games which fullfill that on the other hand are often less enjoyable anymore for players who just want coop.
So were talking about different games that address different kind of players.

[Downy]

Searched through the thread and didn't get any hits on this idea. Would it be possible to "share" the saved world locally? I dug into the installation files, but I'm not seeing where the world is backed up as a single file so either maybe this isn't possible or maybe the file is saved cloud side?
Thought here would be friends would have access to OneDrive or UnRaid file share and basically anyone who wanted to play the world would need to "pull down" the world from that share, then upload the new file whenever they call it for the day.

just comment to the devs though, this game is legit. survival games have been my friend's group bread and butter for quite some time now. within 12 hours of playing, we already know we are willing to sink 100+ hours into this game. sincerely, great work. looking forward to how yall continue to improve the setup.