Allow a way to add another entry point to a Universe

Feature Requests Website Features
#1

Could we have a way to make like a second place for which people can enter our universes from?

Currently I have:

  1. a Hockey Universe filled with all kinds of servers, with shared data between them.
  2. Two ‘public’ hockey game servers that are not apart of the universe.
  3. A paid access hockey game server not apart of the universe

Reasons for this set up:

  1. It’s a lot easier for consumers to join there friends in a game from the website than it is from a lobby
  2. Being able to join into a game directly without using a lobby
  3. dem place visits

However, I have come to a point were I need to have shared data across theses servers (Dev Products). I would hate to set the two ‘public’ servers to inactive to allow them to be able to shard data with the universe, since I would lose the playerbase who are against lobbies and just want to join games quickly.

The best solution for me would be to allocate a place as another entry point to the universe, while also connecting it to the universe. maybe a max of 4 extra entry places so as developers don’t abuse it.

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Allow sub-places of experiences to be fully independent games that still share the universe's data
#2

Instead of saying “This place needs to be a start place in order to be active”, a perferred solution would be to have active, regardless of their standing in the universe, places able to be joined with the Play button, and inactive places not. We should ditch the idea of a start place too, as that is its only purpose. To transition from start places to none, all start places would become a normal place in the universe, but would remain active so they could still be joined.

Another example of usage for this would be:
A military base where you can buy weapons and earn money and a city where you can earn money. Weapons would transfer over to the city for roleplaying purposes and money would be a shared value between the two places. It is possible to accomplish this at the moment, but taking two whole games and combining them under a universe, forcing people to go through a lobby, is not the way to go.

#3

I don’t understand. Why do you need two start places?

#4

Because we have to use universes in order to transfer data between places. Read my example above about a military base and a city – both of those games should be joinable from their respective pages and not require players to go through a lobby each time they want to switch/join a place, as they’re two separate games only linked by the stats they share. Another example would be if I wanted to make a database type of thing where it just tracked stats from a variety of places, but I still wanted players to be able to join those games through the original places. It’s a matter of convenience – why have a lobby place when you don’t need one?

#5

I think what you really want is for roblox to stop discriminating between start places and sub-places, and instead a universe should just be a floating object that isn’t attached to any one place and you can switch out places whenever you like.

That sounds good to me. Modifying the current system to suit your purpose though, not so much. It would just be weird and confusing to have multiple designated start places. Any active member place should be automatically considered a start place instead.

#6

You could use Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub if they never implement it and just teleport to a specific spawnpoint in the “StarterPlace” which redirects to the desired :3

#7

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#8

[quote] I think what you really want is for roblox to stop discriminating between start places and sub-places, and instead a universe should just be a floating object that isn’t attached to any one place and you can switch out places whenever you like.

That sounds good to me. Modifying the current system to suit your purpose though, not so much. It would just be weird and confusing to have multiple designated start places. Any active member place should be automatically considered a start place instead. [/quote]

The problem is we can’t just make a game that is attached to a universe active. This is pretty much what I was suggesting, allow us to make up to 4 other places apart of the universe active, so that they can be joined straight from the website. Why limit it to 4? because if it was unlimited you could spam the Games tab with them.

Also for these sub active games, it should only show the player count at that place, not the total in the universe. However the Main Hub place should still show the total player count in the universe.