is there a private server option?

[Rucky]

I'm looking at buying the game because it looks like a great concept, but is there a private server option where I can host it for friends off my machine? or do I have to join an official or rented one?

[76561198140868886]

we will be working on private servers at some point soon, when we do allow them they will be through a designated hosting provider. This is to protect our server code not for monetary reasons. We rent our servers as well.

[Rucky]

ok cool, I'd like to at least rent one so I can control potential griefers/hackers/etc...will the the hosted servers have decent admin controls?

[Loot Toot GameWorks]

We're looking at implementing RCON within the next 5-6 weeks. Until that point there will be admin creation and ban commands available through web console (we still need to look into setting that up with our server provider also. Stability and Persistence is top priority at the moment. Construction saves are actually working quite well its player saves that are having the most problems. We are going to give a shot at making it so that timed server saves won't be needed at all - construction parts will just simply save themselves. A backup of those files however will most likely have to be implemented since long periods of uptime make it wise to do so in the event of server HD failure.

We're on player saves tomorrow and optimizing code(got about 15-20% of that done at this point). We've done a lot of work today on getting strain off of the server (not that its really strained right now but it would be later). We had a crash on one of the servers today while 5-6 people were on it due to a network view limit that needed to be set. Other then that things are getting pretty stable server wise.

More patch notes and an update to them coming most likely tomorrow morning. I've got about 2-3 more hours in me to try to wrap the net zone client side move.

[Poboop]

Can Assume that this patch is never coming. If Jim ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Sterling didn't real his ugly face or you guys would have ignored his ugly face then maybe.