The best practice of simple repeater server question

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FENG LI asked Oct 8, '19

The best practice of simple repeater server question

I'v read the document of Playfab Multiplayer again and again.

Before trying to start coding, i just wondering is there any suggestion to me, because my server is so simple it is just:

1. A lobby that players can create/join room to play.

2. Each room is a repeater that just broadcast all incoming messages to others who in this room.

As simple as i can do, the lobby and the repeaters should be just one server program(a simple C# builded exe), and there should be serveral servers runs at different regoins to gain low delay for local players.

For my knowledge, the playfab multiplayer system can works since it can mantain regoin servers, but is it suit for my case, if i just instance one server for all region players - maybe thousands players connected in, good choice?

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FENG LI commented · Oct 08, 2019 at 10:57 AM

I mean one server for all players in a regoin.

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Answer 1 · 2019-10-09T06:50:28Z

Seth Du answered Oct 9, '19

The new PlayFab multiplayer server service, including the new matchmaking system, is designed for match based games. The size of matchmaking queue is up to 100 and it suits MOBA games or PUBG like games. If I understand it correctly, what you intends to implement is a MMO RPG game. The new multiplayer server 2.0 doesn’t have lobby system feature and it hosts each game in a queue and the queue will be dismissed after the game is done. We are planning to add more functions like Lobby feature for Multiplayer Server 2.0 but it doesn’t support lobby yet.

The legacy multiplayer server (with legacy matchmaking) does support lobby, however, we have put more resources to Multiplayer Server 2.0 as it is the replacement of the legacy one. Those features that are lack of in Legacy one, like scalable server capacity, will be less likely to add.

3-rd party multiplayer service like Photon is another feasible solution.

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FENG LI commented · Oct 09, 2019 at 12:05 PM

Thanks for the reply, but i may not describe clearly my situation in the first post.

My game is not MMO RPG game, it is more like a match based games, 2~5 players matched to a game for just 1~3 minutes a round, i prefer lobby other than matchmaking, and i prefer to host thouthands games in one server matchine since my server is just a simple repeater(server do not do logic).

I will wrote a lobby by myself with C#, based on playfab's player account, I guess I can do it through GSDK. Not very sure.

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Seth Du ♦ FENG LI commented · Oct 16, 2019 at 05:40 AM

I believe you need another server to host the lobby since the multiplayer server 2.0 is match based server instances, the number of players in waiting status is predefined.

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