How to set up Dedicated Server?

[TheCorellian]

I cannot for the life of me get a dedicated server to work for this game. I press the launch button for the dedicated server and it opens a blank dialog box for the server with no options or buttons. My ports are open, my firewall is open, my game is updated. I open Task Manager and it is taking up a huge amount of memory, but nothing is happening. There's no settings to tweak or anything, just Shut Down Server.

I can't find a single tutorial on how to do this anywhere that's less than 8 months old and hopelessly outdated. The Wiki page simply says something stupid like "Step 1: Run Server....Step 2: Friends Connect".
Seriously, how is there not better coverage of this component??

 

[Captain Tankman]

the local dedicated server takes your singleplayer settings. If you wanna tweak stuff take a look at the server.cfg file in the starmade directory (simply open with notepad or something).
Hope that helps a bit

 

[TheCorellian]

the local dedicated server takes your singleplayer settings. If you wanna tweak stuff take a look at the server.cfg file in the starmade directory (simply open with notepad or something).
Hope that helps a bit

That's helpful for tweaks, but I still don't know how to actually START a server since the box just comes up blank. I feel like I'm missing something super important here haha.

 

[SmilingDemon]

the blank box .... is the running server

with just no connected client
start a client and use the online connection part to connect to your server

 

[DrTarDIS]

start a second copy of starmade and connect "localhost:4242" in the "online" options manual entry -> lets you connect to server from the same macheine.

If you want someone ELSE to connect, you use "[your IP address]:4242" if you're behind a router learn to port-forward. if you're on a LAN use the LAN IP. if you want the server to show up on the server list then edit your .cfg to broadcast server to the list.

 

[TheCorellian]

Got it working. Thanks guys! I didn't really understand the system for how it picked a save file for a server and how it determined if it was hosting or not before. It's still a stupid and weird system to be honest, but at least I get it now haha. It's almost TOO simple to the point where I didn't believe it was working =D

 

[Syno]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP! I know this post was a long time, and I understand everything but my problem is I cant open a second copy of starmade, please help.

 

[Captain Tankman]

Why would you need to run a second starmade copy?
If you wanna play local with a friend, just hit normal singleplayer, it automatically runs a local server where other people can join