Minimum Players

Unity Engine
1

Any way of forcing a Network lobby to wait for a minimum amount of players before it’ll start?

Thanks,

Lukas

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2

I want know this too.

3

this is in for 5.2. along with a callback to allow custom handling when all players are ready.

4

Thanks for the reply. Any sort of estimation how long it’ll be til we receive 5.2? It would be useful as well if we could have a mechanism on the server to force a game to start regardless of whether players are ready if too much time has passed.

5

You could very easily write a function so that every time someone connects it adds to a variable (and minus 1 every time someone disconnects) and compare it to your desired minimum players.

int minimumPlayers = 4;
int currentPlayers = 0;

//Called in OnServerConnect or OnServerDisconnect
public void PlayerCheck (int x){
   //x = 1 on connect and -1 on disconnect 
   currentPlayer += 0;
   if(currentPlayers == minimumPlayers){
      StartGame();
   }
}

This could probably be put in a bool function but that’s how I do it.

6

I don’t think that works as if a client calls SendReadyToBeginMessage(), the server seems to automatically check that all players are ready and then start the game. As far as I’m aware you can’t override that behaviour.

7

Since yesterday the “Networking Lobby Example” is available:

In the LobbyManager script is the variable MinPlayer ( in SpawnInfo)!
The PlayScene is a simple Ping-Pong game → 2 Players.

May be it helps!