Are VIP servers working properly?

[VitalWinter]

I have a lobby place for my game that allows for the use of VIP servers.

If you join the place by joining through a vip server, the game is able to detect which VIP server it is with the game.VIPServerId property.

What I am trying to do is immediately teleport players who join the place through a vip server, to a reserved server of the place for other game related reasons. So I have the vip server create a reserved server for the place, and then teleport players to that reserved server.

The reserved server also has a game.VIPServerId?!?!? This causes vip servers to make a new reserved server and teleport the players to it and then repeat because each reserved server thinks it is a vip server too.

What do I do to recognize the difference between a natural server, a vip server, and a reserved server? This looks very much like a bug, but maybe it was intended for some usecase?

Help and understanding appreciated!

[Corecii]

@einsteinK

Currently, this is how you determine all server types:

if game.VIPServerOwnerId ~= 0 then
	print("VIP server")
elseif game.VIPServerId ~= "" then
	print("Reserved server")
else
	print("Public server") -- "public" includes "Friend only" places
end

• VIPServerId is an empty string for regular (public) servers, and a persistent unique ID for reserved/VIP servers. If you join the same VIP/reserved server twice, VIPServerId will be the same. (JobId is still dynamic)

• VIPServerOwnerId is 0 except for a VIP server, where it’s obviously the UserId of the buyer.

(from here)

In other words:

Server Type	VIPServerId ~= ""	VIPServerOwnerId ~= 0
VIP Server
Reserved Server
Regular Server

[VitalWinter]

Thanks a ton!

Can we document this on the wiki somewhere? @UristMcSparks

[VitalWinter]

Does anyone know if you can teleport players to a VIPServerId as if it is a reserved server id? If you could, it would allow me to not have a vip server redirect players to a reserved server immediately after they join.