Rubidium wrote:

The major problem I see with this patch is that it adds yet another point-of-failure for the 'noobs' to get their servers registered. So I rather not see this as a setting.

Furthermore there is no real use for another master server/content server as it only duplicates stuff and splits the community, but if you really want to you can always instruct people to update their hosts file to point master.openttd.org to whatever IP you like.

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muxy wrote:

I think it's up to the server admin to decide to which master server he wants his openttd server to be registered. Instead of changing the master server, give the server a list of master server where the openttd server can be registered. The client side should also be able to set up a list of master server to request openttd servers list and remove duplicates entry (unique_id?) (it means that 1 openttd server can register itself to many master servers)

To avoid spliting community, add a function to the master server to register secondary master server. The master server will provide to the client a list of master server where he will be able to have a openttd server list.

This will permit local (national - French, Sweedish, Oz, or functionnal - OpenttdCoop )communities to be created. Then they can choose if they want to be linked to THE primary community (openttd.org) or not. Usefull to publish openttd servers to the local community only and to avoid people outside the community.

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Rubidium wrote:

So you want to add an extra layer of indirection (failure) to finding servers? First get a list of "master" servers from the "master master" server so the player can choose which of the "master" servers to search on? That only makes things more complicated for users.

Also I don't see the need to split communities into their own unique islands; most communities thrive on the fact that they can be found via the master server, i.e. it's a way they get into contact with them.

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Rubidium closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't implement

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