Whitelisted Server

Lately, as I've been working on my community- and browsing the Cloud Sixteen forums with things like http://forums.cloudsixteen.com/threads/clockwork-dying.11677/ and discussions with friends via steam, I was thinking about possibly making something like my community a whitelist-only server.

What are your thoughts on a whitelisted server? Do you think it could be viable given enough people are whitelisted before the server begins?

 

I recall Green Pepper doing it before and those who participated really enjoyed it; The only downfall was that there wasn't many people involved.

 

It could work as an idea.

 

Make it a greylist.

 

The fuck is a greylist

 

Anyone can connect, but pretty much can't really do anything until they apply. People generally aren't interested in checking out a server if they can't even join it.

 

What do you think would be the restrictions? Would you just be in something like observer only with acess to OOC after creating a character?

 

That's abusable as fuck.

 

In the second iteration of roleplay created by GreenPepper, everything was managed through a community Steam group. Basically, members were able to invite their friends since the community trusted their judgement for new members; they just had to be invited to the group and they'd be added to the whitelist.

I do agree that being in a whitelist server isn't perfect, as RJ said. I don't think it matters much the amount of people you've got, things will get boring if there isn't an influx of new players or regulars.

 

@Fixxer was actually talking to me about managing it via a steam group (he was planning on using it for his server).

I suppose something like that would work- if you got enough people to get the invitations such and rolling before a server like that launched.

However, the idea of greylisting also seems nice.

Possibly a combination of the two?

 

You have to have actual players first, and that's something i don't think you actually have or will get.

What are you going to do, start with three people?
It's not viable unless you have a whole lot of people really.

 

The second bit of the first sentence along with the second sentence weren't really necessary.

However, I see your point.

 

The average on GreenPepper's projects was of 2-6 people and the experience was golden. However, you might need a good deal of active people to begin with if you do not want to end similarly to Freedom4Gamers.

But if it's going to be a low people average, I deeply recommend to not use an urban setting if it's for HL2RP considering that the required factions need some people more than 3 or so. In outlands, you can pretty much do anything with any amount of people considering that the area isn't meant to be so populated.

 

I would love to- but first I need to find a viable whitelisting model to run, along with that... The features need to be coded in.

 

The idea of a group-based network does seem relatively gnarly.

 

If you're going to try and make an elitist server, you'll have dwindling to no populace. Numbers make a massive difference when it comes to RP.

 

I'd love to see this. A server that doesn't have random minges joining would be the greatest

 

Basically checkpoint admin.

 

I don't think people realize that this cannot and will not work until you actually have a playerbase, and a sizable one at that.

Believe me, i've seen it.

 

I could try this.