How to create a server (Handbook Guide)

[AnimatedAnt_505]

Dear Martians,

We've put together this updated step by step guide for you on how to setup your own server.

http://505games.com/wp-content/uploads/Handbook-Dedicated-Servers-Memories-of-Mars-V1.12.pdf

Thank you,

505 Games & Limbic Entertainment

[KittenPurrr]

this guide didnt help with us who run private servers, again but thanks anyway just gona take a break from all this frustration

[Das Emu]

We haven't patched the private servers yet, we are still trying to fix the issue. The above handbook is just the unfortunately very late handbook for the beginning of the season. We will soon update this page with a new handbook as soon as we fixed and patched the servers :)

[Deklyn Hunt]

in a guestimation, when do you think an update for them will occur? :/

[Das Emu]

The announcement for the next major patch should happen very soon. The release date for the patch isn't announced yet, but I don't think it should take more than the end of the month. But I honestly don't know yet.

[Deklyn Hunt]

Originally posted by Das Emu:

The announcement for the next major patch should happen very soon. The release date for the patch isn't announced yet, but I don't think it should take more than the end of the month. But I honestly don't know yet.

thank you for the reply, its more than satisfactory :)

[strixington]

Any update on the private server patch? We haven't been able to get it working for 6 month and really want to play on our own server soon.

[Deklyn Hunt]

Originally posted by strixington:

Any update on the private server patch? We haven't been able to get it working for 6 month and really want to play on our own server soon.

unfortunately if you read the previous comments, you will see they know as much as we do until its actually released

[DreadPirate]

Documentation looks good, better than most servers I've had to get running. I understand that the server needs work so I will be keeping an eye on it.

Quick question (if the mods/devs are monitoring this thread). Can you enable an option for us to choose to use either your account number or Steam64IDs for blocklist, allowlist, perimssions etc... All of my current scripting work with the Steam OpenID system (to allow us to make sure a user "owns" the Steam64ID they want added to our other servers). I'd like to keep this automation and validation system with a MOM sever.

Unless you happen to have either an OpenID system or API I can use to add to our automation... if so, please let me know how I can get more information about that.

We run quite a few servers for our community and have too many players to do it by hand.

Thanks!

[Das Emu]

@DreadPirateDuo

Unfortunately we don't use steam for verification anymore. We have our own backend for authentification and don't support any OpenID system yet. The server actually does not require or even speak to anything steam-related so we can't verify steamids on server-side. This is mainly due to the multi-platform-support we are currently working on, so our servers need to be able to handle players from all platforms without shipping with a multitude of libraries.

I will talk in the team about the possibility to open up a simple authentification API for public use. Something like confirming that a steamid and mars account id are linked. I don't think we can go deeper than that because of european privacy laws, but we will discuss this.

[DreadPirate]

Originally posted by Das Emu:

@DreadPirateDuo

Unfortunately we don't use steam for verification anymore. We have our own backend for authentification and don't support any OpenID system yet. The server actually does not require or even speak to anything steam-related so we can't verify steamids on server-side. This is mainly due to the multi-platform-support we are currently working on, so our servers need to be able to handle players from all platforms without shipping with a multitude of libraries.

I will talk in the team about the possibility to open up a simple authentification API for public use. Something like confirming that a steamid and mars account id are linked. I don't think we can go deeper than that because of european privacy laws, but we will discuss this.

Awesome, thanks for the reply.
Just to give you an idea on what we do, we use the Discord ID of our members as the Primary/Unique ID, then we record their SteamID in their record. This allows us to allowlist based on Discord role in our community. The only info we really need is some sort of UID that the server checks against the allowlist. We try to record as little information as possible.

I've put together some modules that will either update the allowlist using the game's RCON, or update the file directly (for those games that will pickup allowlist\blocklist file changes on-the-fly.

I totally understand something like this is not a top priority. I just appreciate that you took a look at my post ;)

Going multi-platform can be difficult, it's important to try to not diminish the advantages of one platform just to support another... which is really hard to do. Some of the limitations that supporting PSN and/or XBL can place on the PC Gaming side can cause a pretty big rift in your community. I hope the process goes well, there is never a truly right answer so "getting it right" is 100% subjective.

[KittenPurrr]

I tried new update for setting up my Private server, and still it keeps running into an error loop and wont load the server on my other pc since i use that for hosting games like always.i read your new how to set up on your new updated page but theres something wrong or i just dont get it anymore, i host tons of games using steam CMD method and i havent been able to get this game to work since like season 7??? last time it worked waas before those seasons, some help would be appreciated.

[Das Emu]

Very sorry, but it seems we broke the private servers in a last minute fix for a different issue after we finished testing the private servers. we are working on a hotfix for them and try to patch as soon as possible. Really really sorry for this :/

We hope to have a hotfix either today or tomorrow at best.

[KittenPurrr]

Originally posted by Das Emu:

Very sorry, but it seems we broke the private servers in a last minute fix for a different issue after we finished testing the private servers. we are working on a hotfix for them and try to patch as soon as possible. Really really sorry for this :/

We hope to have a hotfix either today or tomorrow at best.

ok, patiently waiting again, hope you guys get this fixed this time, i miss playing since a good 5 months or so ago.
also, if you can, when i download the files using Steam CMD and start server to get the other files and stop server to set up settings for it.... do i need to add anything in the server config lines or just leave it and it should work? i been trying different commands in the server config lines because i thought it was my end.

[Das Emu]

We might have a hotfix already today, we just found the issue and are waiting on a new build to test if everything is fine now.

A blank new server just needs a name and should run as is locally now without additional arguments or config lines. For internet servers it's a bit more tricky still, but we should have a solution for this very soon as well.

[KittenPurrr]

Originally posted by Das Emu:

We might have a hotfix already today, we just found the issue and are waiting on a new build to test if everything is fine now.

A blank new server just needs a name and should run as is locally now without additional arguments or config lines. For internet servers it's a bit more tricky still, but we should have a solution for this very soon as well.

thanks, so i dont need any port numbers in the command lines then>? ill just clear out the folder and start fresh again when you get this fix out :)