How to run multiple hosts on single server? UNET

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Hi,
we are currently using UNET in simple mobile game where players can connect each other to fight together in groups agains monsters. So one of players is a host and other joins him. However we would like to take a step further and make our own dedicated server as host for all clients. What I am struggling to figure out is how to run multiple hosts on the dedicated server so everyone can joint his own game? It is easy to run single host on the server but we do not want every player connect to the same game. We need somehow tell UNET to create a new host for some players while let others join already existing host ( if they want to join the group and not create a new one). All these hosts must run on the same server (dedicated on VPS). Can someone help us? All I found out is the “visibility” feature of UNET which could serve as workaround solutions ( restrict what players can see and cannot see). But this would be quite a mess as all the clients would connect to single host and he must then manage what each client can see and what cannot, all running in one unity scene! There must be a better solution for this.

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Anyone?

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This is something I’ve also been looking in to but I couldn’t find much myself. I did find a few assets. I’m going to try one once I get my tax money.

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Thanks, will check the asset store. However can someone (idealy from Unity team) just confirm if there is a solution to this or not? Would help us immensely.

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Each server would be its own instance of the game application running in its own process.

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Did you found solution?

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Launch multiple server instances each listening on a different port. When I do this I setup the dedicated servers as headless builds and specify the port number to use as a command line argument to the server when it launches.

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hey, I’m using Mirror to do my networking. but as this post states, matchmaking is still an issue. I’ve seen tutorials on matchmaking on YouTube but even with Mirror’s matchId property, collisions still occur between gameobjects that I’m trying to separate by match ( i suppose since I’m only running a single server instance ). I’m assuming there may not be a workaround and that using separate ports is the answer, but if anyone has a solution for using the same server instance for multiple matches it’d really be helpful.