Matchmaker: how to prevent new players from joining game in progress

Hi,

I've been using the UNET matchmaking service, and have used networkmanager.matchMaker to create and join games successfully. However, I do have a question that I can't resolve by looking through the docs: As the match host (i.e. server), how do I stop the game from being advertised on MatchMaker, and prevent new players from joining my game, even if the number of connections is lower than the max connections?

Basically our game has a max of 4 online players, but once all the existing players are ready (even if there are less than 4), we want to start the game, and from there onwards, stop advertising the game, and block any new players from entering.

I guess this is a pretty basic question, but I have been looking over the networkManager.matchMaker docs and some forums but still haven't found the answer - maybe I'm just not looking at the correct place.

Thanks in advance!
regards,
William

 

Just thought I'd give this thread a bump. I noticed someone else asking a similar question on a separate thread:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/ho...es-in-unet-lobby-manager.387901/#post-2524453

Has anyone resolved this issue, through documented methods or a workaround?

Thanks
-William

 

Another thread here listing the same issue:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/un...fy-attributes-of-match-after-creation.371823/

This really is an issue since after the game has started and is under way, if we don't want drop-in, drop-out participation in our game, and the game is already in progress, other players will still see the match and try to join (and of course run into all kinds of issues when they do that).

Any pointers/workaround/references to docs would be much appreciated.

regards,
William

 

Have you tried the following?

• StopMatchMaker - I don't know if this will break everything. But, it's worth a shot, right?
• In your list of games, if the match returns a status saying the game is in progress then just don't add it on the screen.
• If there's no easy way to do the previous method, you can set the match name to contain this information. Sort of like a header. Then read the header but strip it from the player's view. So the player never sees it.

 

Anyone has solved this? StopMatchMaker do nothing, and changing name or any other attribute of the match does not work. They are still the same as they were at the time the match was created.

 

Anyone?!

 

This solution worked perfectly for me:
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1109215/unet-how-to-prevent-players-from-joining-a-game-in.html

Basically just changing isListed with NetworkMatch.SetMatchAttributes

 

Perfect! It worked for me too. Thanks a lot!

 

But isn't that "insecure"? Someone can still connect to your match, if they force the connection, right?