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Network

With a proxy (Velocity or BungeeCord) every game can get its own server. The players wait on a lobby server and are sent to a free game server; after the game they come back.

                ┌──────────────┐
  players ────► │  proxy       │
                └──────┬───────┘
          ┌────────────┼─────────────┐
   ┌──────▼─────┐ ┌────▼───────┐ ┌───▼────────┐
   │ lobby      │ │ sg-1       │ │ sg-2       │
   │ mode: lobby│ │ mode: game │ │ mode: game │
   └────────────┘ └────────────┘ └────────────┘

The proxy

Add the servers to the proxy as usual. The plugin sends players with the plugin messages of the BungeeCord channel – on Velocity turn on bungee-plugin-message-channel = true in velocity.toml (the default).

Game servers

Every game server runs the plugin with the same arena:

network:
  mode: game
  lobby-server: lobby   # name of the lobby server in the proxy config (empty: players are kicked)
  arena: castle         # the arena of this server
  • The game of the arena is created on start; there are no other games on the server.
  • Players who connect join the game right away – or watch it while it is running.
  • Players who can't play are turned away before they connect: the lobby is full, the game is running and nobody may watch, they are out of the Varo or have no play time left today. Operators and players with sg.network.bypass always get in.
  • After the game, with /sg leave or when the play time is over, players are sent to lobby-server.
  • The MOTD of the server shows the state of the game (SG;LOBBY;3;12;castle;survival-games) – the lobby server reads it.

Same maps everywhere

Copy plugins/SurvivalGames (with arenas.yml and maps/) to all game servers, then set network.arena on each.

Lobby server

network:
  mode: lobby
  servers:
    - name: sg-1                  # name in the proxy config
      address: localhost:25566    # address the lobby pings for the state of the game
    - name: sg-2
      address: localhost:25567
  • The lobby server has no games. It pings the game servers every 2 seconds.
  • /sg join sends the player to the fullest server whose game is waiting, /sg join <server> to that one, /sg spectate to a running game. /sg list shows all servers.
  • Signs with [sg] in the first line and the server name in the second show the state of that server and send players there.