Enabling Players to Join any Place in your Experience

[xeno_mouse (mankey)]

Some good work, this is a good update

[Ryxku]

This is ALMOST a good new feature but it’s for all the places or only root place.
I beg you, add advanced settings to be able to choose which place can be reached and others not.
In my games I sometimes need to prevent access to certain secret places.

[HealthyKarl]

Ah, this announcement sounds like they worked on this issue

TeleportService changed? Can no longer join public subplace server open lobbies through website. Clarification from staff required

Roblox has generally not allowed joins to non-root places (sub-places) from different universes. For example: if you try to play with your friend from their profile and they are in a non-root place we will redirect you to the root place. We noticed that the server browser was not following this restriction and fixed that discrepancy. The good news: we have an item on the Creator Roadmap to enable devs to explicitly allow joins to non-root places. See “Flexible Join Destination” from Roblox Crea…

Very cool!

[tareyza]

Thanks everyone for your comments and feedback.

A ton of your comments are on adding the ability to toggle joins for individual places. We hear you, and I’m excited to say that we’ll be working on this moving forward. Look out for an update that makes this possible in the future. I can’t say definitively when that’ll happen yet, but stay tuned.

[M1Jy (zzzstandsforsleeping)]

this took roblox 6+ years to enable since i saw first post asking for that feature to be back…

[tareyza]

Hi sam (and also the others with similar comments) - thanks for this feedback. I can’t promise anything concrete yet, but I’ve forward all the comments here on this topic with the people who can make this happen so that we can make sure this avenue for exploits is addressed.

[fkonsk]

Awesome! Looking forward to enabling this in my games when that’s available, it’ll be a huge help for organizing events without being at the mercy of TeleportService making new servers all the time.

[minkmink]

ironically this will be a little iffy for people who have “unprotected” test servers.
it is a good update though, i was getting rather annoyed of being locked out of my own test servers.

[LifeDigger (Life)]

I think this is great and as long as it’s somthing we can toggle I think this will really help however what would be even better if its not already like this is being able to choose what places we can allow them to join for.

[SantinooWasTaken (SantinoWasTaken)]

finally a good update!!!

[BrawlBattle]

YES! I find it annoying to work with multiple places especially testing in-game when I have to go from one place to the next.

What if I want to work with teleport data? Usually when having multiple places, teleporting to a place from the root place with data can be important. Since now the teleport can be skipped.

[minkmink]

since you dont appear to be doing that already (which you should, for a couple of reasons) have default values. This is not something roblox should or needs to care about

[royee354 (Royee)]

@tareyza Hi, can this be addressed please

[Gimchi578 (Gimchi)]

Read this man’s comment Roblox!

[RoyallyFlushed (Royal)]

This is excellent news! This has been something desperately needed ever since the release of multi-place experiences.

[jelloman]

Direct friend following to a place is great, but some places in my game are end-game story sequences. I wouldn’t want someone to accidentally follow their friend to a place full of story spoilers.

But as a workaround, I could including special teleport data for every place teleports my code initiates. If a player join a spoiler place without my special teleport data, I can assume Roblox matched the player directly with their friend and teleport them out immediately before spoilers are witnessed.

Any flaws with that plan?

[RoyallyFlushed (Royal)]

That sounds like a good idea, however, I’d be tempted to check the player’s access requirements to said place when they join a server, and then teleport them back to earlier worlds if they do not have the requirements to be in the later stages of the game.

This would only work though if you had some kind of metric to measure one’s progress through your game.

[MatkeFTW (Matke)]

Great addition! However there is still stuff that the developers want.

Usering pretty much mentioned it all:

@Usering

1. Exposing available sub places on the main place page.
2. Setting a custom description & place name on each sub place page
3. Support for sub-place VIP servers (right now the only solution is building out a custom private server system)

Here’s a feature request from 2021, which mentions all this in detail:

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

As a Roblox developer, it is currently impossible to create multiple standalone spin-off games that all refer to the same data (DataStore, not sure if MemoryStore, MessagingService are shared) in the same universe. My grand vision for my entire “franchise” is to have a series of independent off-shoot games with shared data. I want players in my games to be able to unlock customization options for my custom alien characters in different games, and be able to customize their characters and use th…

@MatkeFTW

It would be great if they add something like shown in the image below.

[codelead (Emre)]

Joining places by their link (“www.roblox.com/games/1234”) still falls back to the starter place. Furthermore, using LaunchData links (“www.roblox.com/games/start?placeId=1234&launchData=”) on places other than the start place kicks you from the game by throwing a permission issue.

I think those cases should be allowed if we enable this setting. Would be really cool! We have an experience with a lot of developer places inside, being able to join and test them from the website would be really good!

Overall its an amazing feature, thank you for adding!