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Instant Invite links to servers - lmcdo - 04-20-2019
It'd be nice to have instant invite links for Xonotic in a similar manner to joining a Discord server or other chat server. They could link to servers or even specific teams on the server.
To do this, you'd (we'd?) need to handle a protocol (xonotic:// or something of that nature).
This feature would greatly improve the pick-up-and-play nature of the game, one of its strengths, for casual players.
A beta implementation would probably just use IP addresses (toggle between public and private IP address in the Xonotic UI to generate the link), while a release version would need to hide this (I think, though I'm happy to be corrected).
RE: Instant Invite links to servers - BuddyFriendGuy - 04-22-2019
Good suggestion. We can write a gateway (shell?) to parse the server address and call Xonotic launcher.
Yes, we'll have to do all OSes: Linux, OSX, and Windows. Very doable actually.
RE: Instant Invite links to servers - Freddy - 04-23-2019
Afair unvanquished(daemon) already has that functionality, so one more reason to switch engines to daemon.
RE: Instant Invite links to servers - lmcdo - 04-24-2019
Out of the gate, links could auto expire at 24 hours, then more granularity could be added if the functionality seems promising and/or widely used.
Default non-expiring links doesn't seem good though. A checkbox for expiring vs non-expiring links would also work.
I don't know etiquette for opening a feature request in gitlab -- I can try my hand at it though.
RE: Instant Invite links to servers - BuddyFriendGuy - 04-24-2019
(04-24-2019, 12:08 PM)Lyberta Wrote: The usual thing would be that xonotic://connect:1.2.3.4 just call the xonotic binary with say "-connect 1.2.3.4" command line parameter or something. I dunno Xonotic parameters for direct connect.
What do you mean by direct connect? Isn't it the same as connect?