AMS2 Dedicated Server Tool / SteamCMD Support

is or will there be the "-selectds" option for dedicated servers.
With this PC2 option you could create a hostsession and after clicking start there appeared a list of dedicated servers to be selected to host this session.

 

I still don't see the dedi tool in my library and
steam://install/447760
installs the AMS1 dedi tool.

 

It should be 1338040

 

Yeah, now it appeared in my library as well, it wasn't there early in the morning yet.

 

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Is there any GUI for setting up the dedi instead of having to edit config files?

 

you can edit next sessions and some things via IP and port that you have set which shows a nice web UI. But the initial stuff has to be in the cfg I believe.

 

The web UI is nice, but might have loopholes, so local access might be the answer. But, if you want to hosting a race, it is not good to connecting remote server, then opening a server, then opening a browser, then change settings.

 

Im just happy we have something for now, its clear there will be more work done on this.

 

@Dave Stephenson

I was trying to start a server on Microsoft Azure, just copied the file server_game_controlled.cfg to the root folder and renamed to server.cfg.

Edited the variable "name" to "AMS2 Dedi ClassicB" and started, unfortunately it's not showing on server list.

I opened all ports to see if there's some ocult port that i need to open beyond 8766, 27015 and 27016. No good.

Windows Firewall:



Azure security rules:



Server web console: (JOINABLE = FALSE ???)





I'm running a rFactor2 server in the same machine now, and it's working fine. Can you help?

 

I changed the vehicle, saved, and received the message on the right corner...



But, when i go back to "Current Session screen", nothing changes.

"Current state of the server does not allow editing attributes"

I left this screen for 10 minutes, refreshed, same thing.



I tried with other cfgs, same result.

 

you would have to setup cfg to force servee to be admin to see current config when 0 playets joined. Try switching LUA to false, at the end of config setup your session, then join in browser and web should display session details, when there is 0 players, you can switch stuff in the next session tab and it will always be current. As soon as people join, you need an empty lobby for it to work.

if you force server to be admin, you can change current stuff when people are in lobby i think but then no one in the lobby will be allowed to ( even if you tick the allow switch it doesnt seem to let anyone do it )

 

i cannot sign in.


I tried to set the user name and password in the server.cfg file but no luck.
Can anyone point me out to where i can change that properly ?

 

remove "//" before name and pw in server.cfg

 

I’ve been testing the DS that is basically the same as PCARS2. If someone is interested, you can use the spreadsheet I made for PC2 to calc the flags value for the SERVER.CFG file: Link

But I hope it could be improved by adding some options as:

- Send commands from the text chat for i.e. advance session or kick players by the host.
- Invite friends from DS's sessions
- Use web interface to blacklist rammers
- Option to save the server's setup from the web interface.
- Option to save the server player's status for if is needed to restart.
- Option to sort grids or set penalties from web Interface
- User friendly live status to follow the race standing, times, maps… (from browser)

But there is another option that would be very useful for communities and I think it's no very complex:

Random Pattern in LUA rotations

As we know, if we program a rotation in the sms_rotate_config.json file, we have two options in the parameter “persist_index”. If “true” the rotation continues from the last combo used in the lobby from those defined in the file. If is set to false, it starts ever from the first combo of the list when someone joins. The problem is that you know ever what combo will be the next after a few interactions.

I propose a third option for this parameter:

Index: Persistent (same as true, sequential order from last one used)
Index: Restart (same as false, sequential order from first)
Index: Random (pick a combo of the list randomly)

That makes that we can make a huge list of combos and we don’t know what we will get, because it doesn’t follow a sequential order.

But the most important target for the proposed option, would be to manage the weather conditions for community events. I’ll try to explain with my poor enligsh:

I.E., the next race of a community will be in Interlagos and they want to have a 10% options of light rain, and a 10% of rain. They can make a list of 10 identical combos changing only the weather option making one of them with light rain, and another with rain. If the index is random, the DS will pick one of the 10 possible scenarios in the rotate file. So we will get 80% of dry races and 20% of wet races randomly (10% light rain). We could control the probability of rain adding or removing combos from the list of the rotations. We can also exclude from the rotation weird weather scenarios, that we could get using in-game random weather.

Another option would be generace only 3 rotation (with the different weather options) and assign different weights (80/10/10), but probably that would be more complex to code.

 

Can you show that exactly in server. cfg, didnt get it, thx man