Dedicated Server (Permission?)

[Alexis]

I love how this game has multiplayer, I just wish that hosting a dedicated server was a thing. I tried looking for dedicated servers and even the network protocols the game uses to communicate with other clients.

For games such as Minecraft, some third party developers worked out the protocol[wiki.vg] for Minecraft and Mojang even supported the third party work and dedicated servers that came from it (such as Spigot and the Sponge server). This started back when Minecraft was just lan based. This made Minecraft even better and more popular than before (I also bought Minecraft because of custom third party server support).

For the developers of The Escapists 2, I wanted to ask for permission to allow third party developers to make dedicated servers that people can join if they want to. Thanks!

[DKShadow_Team17]

If this were a thing for The Escapists 2, I assume it would need to come with full control over the gameplay experience? Sort of like how you can customise your prison in the editor, but an even deeper system. Right?

[Alexis]

Yes, that is right. Having a custom server would allow full control over all the functions that the server is responsible for.