Multi-Place Questions

[late iris]

Ok so:

• If i have 2-3 places, that can be moved to from 1 place, how does roblox create a reference to that "place's server" specifically

• If i do have a way to get the reference, is there a way to force for that place to have 1 server running at a time? For example:
  If i get a reference of the server of that place can i save it to a datastore and store how many players in it?
  If yes, if the max players is reached can i make roblox not create a new server instead just return with "Place is full Cannot enter", or make a queue to join that server (Without using roblox's one), so if a player leaves and 3 people were queueing to join that place, it grabs the first player and teleports them to it after making checks with both the other server and the current one he is in

• Can i re-use server references even if they get empty? So lets say 1 player entered the place and he created the first ever server, if i were to save that server into my datastore, but then he leaves that place to go to another, and then another player comes to the same place, can i make him join the same server created by the other player, or will i be forced to create a new one?

• Is there a way to save something specific between servers in 1 place, so lets say a player adds an item to an auction system, is there a way other than (Memorystores) to convey to all other servers that an item was added and automatically update the datastore effectively and per server local data so it shows all players part of that place the update?

More questions will be later, i just need these answered.

[half lake]

You can use memory store to keep track of let's say job id of current open server

I'd use Reserved server to have only one active in place
You can keep track of code by having private server Id as key in memory store

What do u mean by server refrence?

Jobid gets changed every time

But private server I'd is always same for that server if you're using reserved

[late iris]

Ohh, reserved exists? So basically i can create a reserved server, and if one already exists, i do not let it allow to create another?

[half lake]

You can create reserved server by API call in script

So basically

Just create once, save to memory store

And then never create again

U need to check game.matchnakingtype
To see if it's default (enum)

[half lake]

As cross play can be disabled for Xbox users resulting in 2 servers with same ids and stuff

[fast forge]

Server(s) also aren’t active unless at-least one player is in it so keep that in mind

[half lake]

This too

[late iris]

What could this lead issues to? As i want to have a system where there are territories per place that can be captured by a guild, in which it will make them points per day

[half lake]

About last part
Maybe u can use messaging service

[fast forge]

You would probably need to calculate points that would have been earned had the server been active; in the case the players left the server. (If you want it to accumulate even after they left the place)

[late iris]

Also, similar idea, if a player were to leave, as i know servers are created by region by the player who first joined

[late iris]

I mean it most likely will be a data saved to datastore of a guild, so guilds {id = "I3234" Territories = ...}

and i would use that to calculate points,

[fast forge]

Nice

[late iris]

is there a way to always guarentee of it being calculated

even if say, every single server has 0 players?

as i think, idk, if i do smth in studio it also can affect the game's datastore

[fast forge]

Aslong as you had the time it was captured saved persistently I’m sure the next time the server comes online you’ll have a way to track earned points

[late iris]

I see, that does make sense, and lastly for this

Do you by any chance know about it?

As i am planning on making the game have 3 major cities, in which the day of "Raid times" will be dependant on time zones

So city 1 will be for USA, City 2 will be for EU and city 3 will be for AS

[fast forge]

Yeah Roblox does that automatically and it cannot be changed sadly.

[late iris]

sadness

[mild geode]

can anyone help me make a game i cant pay tho

[fast forge]

You could force the server to be hardcoded for the time zone

so even if it generates in a different area you could check and have them sent to a server in the correct region

[late iris]

Ye thats what i am planning, but maybe a EU player doesnt understand english, and goes to the US servers, i dont want it to ruin the ping for actual us players trying to fight over a territory

[fast forge]

I wish more games did that

[late iris]

as i want the game to be global, 1 map, all players

[half lake]

https://jobs.mchire.com

[fast forge]

the amount of times I had like 100+ ping from it auto connecting me to like Australia servers was so stupid

[mild geode]

I just asked if someone can help me witha code or smt on roblox

[lucid kestrel]

** You are now Level 1! **

[half lake]

P a y

[late iris]

Sad that roblox doesnt let you choose a region per server

But i will have to ig just deal with it

wait, can i see if a player is inside a server

what the region is? @fast forge

[half lake]

Yes

Localization service

Well

Wait

[half lake]

This for players region

But for server it was uhhh

[late iris]

ye, i need for server's region

[half lake]

Apparently people using http requests

To figure out

Sooo

[late iris]

Alrighty, will research more on that, atleast i know its possible now

And last question, can i save smth about players till next zone? So if a player was not in combat, as soon as they enter the other zone, it checks what his status was in the last server, so it does stuff accordingly, so if he wasnt in combat he gets a shield for 30 secs, and if he was mounted it spawns him mounted, so on

[half lake]

Could prob use messaging service

Might not be most reliable

If player takes too long or so

[late iris]

I see,

ig i will also have to set up edge cases, if people leave before fully entering next zone and so on

as i have a system when a player leaves it keeps his body there for another 120 seconds

ehh, will see

[fast forge]

Best option is saving to a shared data (datastore or memory store) or attempting to call that server with MessagingService

[late iris]

I am probs gonna do the idea with memorystore, keep the stuff there, if they do not join/appear on a different server for 1 minute and delete the data from the memorystore, it will spawn his body on the last server he was on at last known location so he is able to be killed

[lucid kestrel]

** You are now Level 11! **

[fast forge]

Personally for my tracking of this I did a while back I used memorystore for updates to information on that server every few seconds and message service if a user requested updated information immediately

[fast forge]

nice