Enum ServerPriority

[GollyGreg]

It’s been a while since the post was made and it seem to be well received at the time.

It appears that something like this is still wanted throughout the community. This would circumvent having to shutdown all servers for an update (which I think it not allowed on xbox). I think Roblox’s official matchmaking handles stuff like new updates and slowly phases out old servers on its own, however this could be used beyond that. This would allow the developer full control of proper times for new players to join a server.

Bonus points if we could somehow query this Enum via JobId for TeleportService magic…

(x-post Unlock :Shutdown() - #56 by GollyGreg)

@Seranok

I can think of other use cases for exposing this to Lua. You might want to programmatically shut down certain game versions, perhaps because you released a bad update or because the new update has been live for a while and you want to automatically shutdown the handful of remaining servers.

Branching off of this:
I think we should set up a Server Priority with 1 of 3 Enum values. (names debatable)

Enum.ServerPriority.Normal --functions as of now with players filtering in and out

Enum.ServerPriority.None --no players can join the game from hitting the big green play button (or maybe even the server list and prevents following?) Good for trying to kill off a server. Simply change the priority and kick all.

Enum.ServerPriority.Low --potentially unneeded? players can join this game, however servers with Normal priority will be filled first. This is good if you want to have the big green play button send your players to a Normal priority server (if players are waiting for the next round in a round based game) and still allows players to either manually select the server in the server browser or follow via profile (may be set to low during the end of a round or competitive games)

This still allows us to kill off a server (No priority and kick all) and solves some basic match making issues when it comes to the big ol green button.

[GollyGreg]

More x-post stuff from @KerriNouveau

@KerriNouveau

Reasons you want to shut down your server gracefully and not immediately:

Save stuff to datastore
Ensure the server is correctly shut down and cannot be restarted
Give players a chance to realise the game is shutting down and not just boot them or crash them making them believe there’s a problem with your game.

Golly’s idea would work well with this, if your server needs shutting down for whatever reason you can get the players out of the way without crashing them, give them warning and prevent anyone from rejoining the broken server. Meanwhile the server empties either naturally or through automatic kicking and dies off. There should always be normal priority spaces available, if not a new normal priority server will be established as per normal routine and low priority servers are there for the times when an update has been rolled out and you don’t want to kick all the players or migrate them to a new server, thus keeping them together and still letting new people join if they really want too ie through following a friend.

[ScriptOn (Genya)]

@GollyGreg

This is good if you want to have the big green play button send your players to a Normal priority server (if players are waiting for the next round in a round based game) a

That’d be a really nice feature to have for so many of the round based games I see.

[GollyGreg]

@ScriptOn

That’d be a really nice feature to have for so many of the round based games I see.

Yeah, this is my major compliant with round games. I always seem to join the server in the middle of a long round.

[ScriptOn (Genya)]

I think it’d support a new genre for roblox in general. Now we could have long strategic matches (20 minutes?) or do something that can takes hours (think COD zombies) without complicated teleport stuff.