Questions about teleporting players to different players from a lobby

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#1

I am at the point in the development of my game to where I am ready to start teleporting players to different places. My game uses a separate place as the lobby which is the central hub for teleporting to the game worlds where the actual game is played. The lobby is the starting place that players join. In my research on how to do this properly, a number of issues have come up:

  1. So if I just teleport to the PlaceId, I just get a random public server.
  2. To force teleport to a new server, I have to reserve a server.
  3. Roblox documentation states that once players have joined a private server, new players cannot join.

Here’s the posts that I have read:

Teleport to a new server
How to forcefully teleport a player to an empty server when they join the game
How to teleport a player to a new server of the game?
Teleporting player to a new game instance
How do I teleport all of the players into a newly created server that still allows new people to join?

And there’s a feature request:

Add a method to guarantee players will be teleported into new/updated servers

So from what I can gather, if I reserve a new server, I get an access code for that specific server to teleport players to. So far so good. But Roblox documentation states that new players cannot join the server, which seems to be asinine to me.

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Because I’m using a lobby, and teleporting to different places, I have the following requirements:

  • When players join from one of the queues, they MUST be teleported to a new server.
  • There is a servers list and a list of servers the player’s friends are on, so a player should be able to teleport to those servers if they want to.
  • In the case if player get’s disconnected, the player should be able to connect to the last server they were on.

Now I know I can teleport to a specific public server using the server’s JobId. However, I have a number of questions about private servers:

  • When I initially teleport players to a private server, can I teleport more players to that same server or will a new server instance be created if I use the same private server Id and access code?
    • If I can, then what exactly does Roblox’s documentation refer to?
      • Is it just the code sample that doesn’t allow new players to teleport?
      • Or, is it any instance of a private server?
    • I have read that a number of people stated that you cannot directly join a private server from the website, which is perfectly fine by me. But, the above questions still apply.
  • If I reserve a private server and get the private server Id and access code, does Roblox provide an API that returns a list of id/code pairs assigned to the experience or do I have to store them myself. Roblox documentation states that the codes are indefinite which to me means they do not expire.
  • I have also seen comments that private servers do not know what their own access codes are (or the access codes are not available on the private server). Is this true? If so, then it’s another asinine decision, but whatever. I can work around that.

Cheers

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#2

Yes you can teleport more Players to a private server but you will need a access code to join it but it depends how you customize your teleportation for players.

#3

Additionally,roblox does give you a code from the :reservedserver method which you can save the code in a Datastore for more players to join.