Profile Based Setup

[srobinson]

Hi there Darren,

Just talking to the server admin in our clan and he was telling me how clanforge (Multiplays game control system) works..

When they ordered the server it was deal time so they got a server cabable or running about 8 different games. The neat thing was though they could only run one game at a time (or x amount specified by the admin)

So i was wondering.. Would it be possible to have sometihng like the following..

Admin specifies a user for a game account
Admin sets what games the user can run
Admin sets maximum amount of profiles the user can have
Admin sets how many profiles can run at once

Then once its setup the user can loggin to there game panel
And if no profile is selected they select a profile. Lets call it COD4 for example. So there running a cod4 server and that is the only one visible in the gameservers area.. But then its match time for Battlefield two. So the user then changes the profile to BF2 - Match from a drop down.

This then stops the cod4 server and closes all running instances of it and takes it off the screen, and then shows the new BF2 screen for you.

Summary A profile based system where basically the user could for example have one profile running at a time. The profile can run any specified game and will have the config saved for it

[darren]

I think I see what you're saying, limit users by # of games running at any given time rather than specifically which games are possible, using a selectable profile to determine which games are available to them ? That'll take quite a bit of work, honestly, the underlying framework would need some changing. I'll put it on the long-run todo list, but I've got a lot of more immediate issues *coughbugs*cough* to get polished up first
It might be easier, until I can get around to looking into the full blown thing, to set a limit on total numebr of servers running, so if they are allowed 2 cod4 servers, 2 cs:s servers and a teamspeak server, they can be limited to 3 running servers at any given time, so teamspeak and 1 cod4 and 1 cs:s server, or 1 TS and 2 cs:s servers , etc ?

[srobinson]

Hm thats a nice little idea for the momment...

Do you think it would be possible to add a button on the front gameserver page..

A Start/Stop button and a Restart button? (And it works without having to press "Save IP" :P)