Launcher Suggestion: Favorites, History and Steam Friends

[MossyStone48]

The idea is to add several tabs and a new option to the server list.
The first tab will always be listed servers. The second tab should be dedicated to your favorites. You choose them using a check mark you place on their listing in the other tabs. The third tab should be listed servers online steam friends are currently logged into. Unlisted servers would not appear. The fourth tab would be for servers you previously joined as a way to back track easily. Additionally the tab would have a radio button or a pull down menu placed in the server list window indicating which tab should be presented to the user first when they open the server list. An alternative radio button or pull down option could also be used to indicate the user wants the last tab used remembered and presented upon reopening the server list.

 

[therimmer96]

Proper steam integration would do most, if not all of this

 

[Megacrafter127]

Idea: good
Execution: impossible/inconsistent
1: there is no steam-API for java, so integration would be clumsy at best.
2: what about the standalone launcher?

 

[MossyStone48]

I never said it had to be the java launcher.

 

[therimmer96]

It would need to be in the connection manager, which is Java, so that you can change settings and names and stuff before the game starts. Having it in the starter would just add another step that can go wrong.

 

[MossyStone48]

Starlaunch. Might be a good time to revive that project. Considering the Schine built launcher eventually paralleled it functionally. You can open the source. Mentor the next person who adds to it. Maybe a hacky but worky way of hooking into the steam api might be used until valve makes their own. I'm thinking python right away.