Planned Better Server Info

[MacThule]

I would very much love to see servers be allowed to post a substantial amount of text to be displayed in the information section when browsing online play options. It would be nice to see the server guidelines, unique rules and other stuff up front before ever wasting time joining then finding out an hour in that, for example, there's a rule against uploading blueprints or spawn stations or some other deal-breaking nonsense.

Currently server descriptions are one-liners that tell you almost nothing. You have to go into each one, read the spawn dialogue, read any rule boards posted, then spend time in chat asking about common issues, and even then there are often rather important mods or rules that aren't clear up front. It's a frustrating waste of time.

It'd be super awesome if servers could even insert a single page of HTML into the section that'd be displayed within the main menu while browsing MP servers.

 

[Sachys]

It'd be super awesome if servers could even insert a single page of HTML into the section that'd be displayed within the main menu while browsing MP servers.

YES!!!

 

[Erth Paradine]

Servers can somewhat already do this, by adding info to the server-message.txt file, which is that popup everyone ignores/quickly-closes upon logging-in.

Although it would be really nice if that same server-message.txt info was available in the "Server Details" portion of a launcher's "Online Play" list; click on a server, show contents of server-message.txt. As right now "Server Details" is limited to a max 128 character string.

 

[HolyCookie]

Hai,
Congrats! This suggestion has been recognised by the council and the devs, it has been added to the phabricator workflow. You can check out all the accepted suggestions that have been added to the planned list over here Group Council · Workboard
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I hope many more fine suggestions will come from you.

For reference:
T1743 A button to see the extended information about a server in the server list

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- Andy