Server browser features (sorts, filters, flags, official)

[Peptide90]

Description

As the title suggests there are a few things I think are mandatory for the server browser and some that would be fairly nice to have as the game starts to get more traction. In order of necessity:

• [ ] Official status tick - A blue tick or badge that shows which servers are official and that are up to date.
• [ ] Game version? - In relation to the above, a game version number or hash which will shown red if out of date and green if up to date. This way new players will know that a server may contain bugs. Can probably be disposed off near release as forks start to appear.
• [ ] Sort function - allows you to sort by clicking arrows at the top of columns. E.g. sort by players, country, gamemode, map, name.
• [x] Filters - similar to sorts but could filter for no full servers, no empty servers, region only, language only, gamemode only etc
• [ ] Flags - In addition to the server location tag it would be nice to have a small country flag in the server title as an option. Again just adds that little extra flair. Alternatively allow custom flags too for future forks.
• [ ] 18+ flag - Self explainatory. Little 18+ or ERP sticker in line with where the official tick would go just to show servers that are tolerant of it at a glance so it can be filtered out. Not massively necessary but we know a certain amount of the playerbase are into it.
• [ ] Map / Gamemode column - columns for map and gamemode so that you can effectively sort servers running your favourite gamemode or map to the top.

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[SweptWasTaken]

Would probably be better for the launcher repo although that gets less traffic.

[Peptide90]

Would probably be better for the launcher repo although that gets less traffic.

Think it's worth cross posting it or closing this one?

[SweptWasTaken]

Would probably be better for the launcher repo although that gets less traffic.

Think it's worth cross posting it or closing this one?

shrug up to maintainers really

[PJB3005]

Map / Gamemode column - columns for map and gamemode so that you can effectively sort servers running your favourite gamemode or map to the top.

The problem I have with this, as always, is that this feels like it lowers the value of actual servers as communities and encourages ignoring the server and just connecting to whatever hosts box.

Flags - In addition to the server location tag it would be nice to have a small country flag in the server title as an option. Again just adds that little extra flair. Alternatively allow custom flags too for future forks.

Could be neat but we'd need to source flag icons from somewhere without them looking out of place.

Game version? - In relation to the above, a game version number or hash which will shown red if out of date and green if up to date. This way new players will know that a server may contain bugs. Can probably be disposed off near release as forks start to appear.

I really don't think this is necessary.

[Acruid]

It would be nice to have a Region (us-west, eu-east, sea, etc) column, or a flag column, to let people know where the server is located. We really need a language column,

The goal should be to provide the info that ss13 servers are commonly putting in their server listing in tabular form. For the less common tags they don't need to be inline with the server list, we can have a details section like factorio with a standardized tag system.

The problem I have with this, as always, is that this feels like it lowers the value of actual servers as communities and encourages ignoring the server and just connecting to whatever hosts box.

It looks like most ss13 servers are advertising their map right now, so they seem to want to share that info. the Gamemode is a lot less common.

[Peptide90]

At the end of the day this project should be more accessible and effectively kill off byond SS13 so we should expect more servers and more players. And since it's all open I imagine there will be more than one server for example running CM or para station etc.

My thinking was the Garry's Mod approach but I understand most servers will probably run a hidden / dynamic gamemode, some RP servers will do extended and some will be unique.