Dedicated Server Password or whitelist option

[Hand]

Ok so now we have dedicated servers i have already ran in to an issue. Basicly if you are running the dedicated server from a server box you can set it up as offline, public, friends or private.

well since im running the server off a dedicated box and not my steam account there is no way of setting it as friends only as the box wont know who my friends are. offline and private obviously wont show up in the serevrs list which leaves us one option, the dreaded public server..

Well im one of those people who have a decent number of friends who play Se but most of us dont want to play on an open public server.. (for obvious reasons).

Can we please have either a whitelist option where we can have the server set only to allow players on that are whitelisted or can we atleasd have a option to password our server so only my friends can join?

as we all know public servers full up with kiddies who like to ram stuff and im not investing my time in a game for some little brat to come along and ruin it.

im sure im not the only person who would like to see this in the future.

[No Nōryoku]

What about "private"? I think you can do something with that can't you?
There has to be an option, unless the devs forgot that.

[Hand]

Well when i ran a test server with the private option it didnt even show in the dedicated server list.

[MistuhG]

I would have looked for the option to join a server by ip (thereby bypassing the need to have a server in the list) but having looked myself I see there isn't one at present. By the devs own admission this is a very early iteration of dedicated servers (which includes the interface for joining them) so have confidence they will sort through these issues soon.

[MistuhG]

I did notice in the dedicated server settings that you can define a steam group id for the server. by the hover description it sounds like it works similar to a whitelist, by defining a group of players that can connect. Leaving it at the default of 0 allows everyone. Have you played with that?

[Hand]

no not yet, mainly becasue i dont have a steam group, but ill look in to it

[Hand]

so yeah tryed that steam group thing, created a test steam group, put its group id in the server setup, got my friend to check if he could see it in the list and he could still see it even though he isnt in the group so yeah were back to square one. personaly i think it would be easyer if they went with a passworded server option, whitelist or required ip address to connect, the steam serevr servis is crap at the best of times.

[MistuhG]

I don't think the steam group thing prevents people from seeing the server, it prevents them from being able to join it. Maybe you tried that and i misunderstood. But well sorry it didn't work, it looked promising.

[PhoenixTheSage]

If you are setting the steam group, make sure to edit your config settings manually, cause the GUI is bugged. It doesn't save your settings 50% of the time.

[Hand]

Yeah figured that one out quite quick and it keeps overwiting the configs with the defaults. what we have discovered is that when we have a group id in the config it wont let anyone join even myself and im in the group, but if i set it back to 0 we can connect no problem, so im gonna go out on a limb here and say the group id thing is borked.

[Petronas]

You could always run it public and as the admin, keep kicking people you don't want inside til they get bored and wont come back.

[Tal Maru]

you can set up the server to only allow people in a certian steamgroup to join

[Hand]

Lol dude why did you necro this post? it was made the day dedicated servers were released the problem was fixed with the steam groups the day after.