Integrated Match-making for modders to use

[Nick]

Is there any chance to see an integrated match-making system, available for modders?

It could work like that:
The match-making finds, lets say 10 players that want to play the same gamemode then picks one player as a HOST and the others connect to him using p2p.

Is miserable existence would probably allow for new types of gamemodes to function like… ok maybe i can not think of an example but i am sure it will come handy to someone, lol.

Sorry for wasting your time and i hope it makes sense since i typed it from mobile.

[m0uka (Lukas)]

Garry already talked about it here.

Source 2 networking

I can definitely give access to the connection routine so you can have the player wait at the loading screen with a status message while you prepare their spawn on the server. I have a bit of a problem with other systems where you join a server then it redirects you to another server. I feel that these are problems we should be solving for everyone instead of putting the burdon on developers. You should really be able to create a 1v1 chess gamemode and have matchmaking just work, or a pubg type…

[nameofuser]

It would be interesting to have a lobby and matching system that worked regardless of the gamemode. It just finds an empty matchmaking-designated server(can be self-hosted) that everyone in each lobby has a good connection to.

Seems already that S&box is going to be about selecting gamemodes first and not servers themselves.