Reserved Slot System

[P4sca1]

Hello Facepunch,
I'm doing a reserved slot system and want to ask you for a little help with it.
To determine how many players are online at the moment I'm doing this:

hook.Add("PlayerConnect", "egm_join_manager_connect", function()
	print("Player connected")
	EGM.JoinManager.onlinePlayerNum = EGM.JoinManager.onlinePlayerNum + 1
end)

hook.Add("PlayerDisconnected", "egm_join_manager_disconnect", function()
	print("Player disconnected")
	EGM.JoinManager.onlinePlayerNum = EGM.JoinManager.onlinePlayerNum - 1
end)

The problem I have is that PlayerConnect is not called for players that were online before the map changes.
So let's say 20 people are online and the map changes, EGM.JoinManager.onlinePlayersNum would be 0 even if 20 people are connected after the map change.

Is there any better method to get how many players are online? I can't use #player.GetAll() because players that aren't spawned (e.g they are in loading screen) need to count too.

[whitestar]

#player.GetAll()

Returns numbers of players? >w<

[P4sca1]

[QUOTE=P4sca1;50072912]I can't use #player.GetAll() because players that aren't spawned (e.g they are in loading screen) need to count too.[/QUOTE]

[Blasteh]

I use sockets to get around this limitation. It does the exact same thing as hlsw or server browsers, it just sends a source engine query and decodes the response.
requires bromsock
[url]https://github.com/blastehh/GModAddons/blob/master/sourcequery/lua/autorun/server/sv_sourcequery.lua[/url]

[P4sca1]

[QUOTE=Blasteh;50073128]I use sockets to get around this limitation. It does the exact same thing as hlsw or server browsers, it just sends a source engine query and decodes the response.
requires bromsock
[url]https://github.com/blastehh/GModAddons/blob/master/sourcequery/lua/autorun/server/sv_sourcequery.lua[/url][/QUOTE]

Just tested it and it is working fine. Thanks for the code!

[editline]5th April 2016[/editline]

Will there be any performace issues when I run a SourceQuery every player connect/disconnect?
I think there are a maximum of 3 connects/disconnects a minute.

[Blasteh]

[QUOTE=P4sca1;50073247]Just tested it and it is working fine. Thanks for the code!

[editline]5th April 2016[/editline]

Will there be any performace issues when I run a SourceQuery every player connect/disconnect?
I think there are a maximum of 3 connects/disconnects a minute.[/QUOTE]

you can try caching the result and limit to 1 query/sec ?
or put the query on the timer to update a global and just check the global when you need to...

[P4sca1]

[QUOTE=Blasteh;50073311]you can try caching the result and limit to 1 query/sec ?
or put the query on the timer to update a global and just check the global when you need to...[/QUOTE]

Okay, thank you!
I just spammed 20 querys in a few seconds with about 40 players online and everything was working fine.

Again, thanks for the code!