Connection between multiple servers

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Hey Guys,

What are the current ways to work with an other server? Lets say I want to send a global announcement on all servers or print that player X joined server 1 in server 2.

MySQL with Delay every X seconds or even socket?

[iPlayer]

Socket would be the way to go.

I'm currently working on a CCP - Custom Communication Port custom package. It will be the main dependency for MOTDPlayer package, but it suits your case perfectly.

With it, you would be able to do something like this (code on server #2):

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import json

from messages import SayText2

from ccp import RequestBasedCommunicator


@RequestBasedCommunicator('my_plugin')
def my_plugin_communicator(data):
    dict_ = json.loads(data)
    
    if dict_['action'] == "ANNOUNCE_NEW_PLAYER"
        SayText2(
            "Player {} has joined Server 1".format(dict_['player'])).send()
        
        return "OK"

    return "ERROR"

API for external apps (those who are connecting to the SRCDS - including other SRCDS's, too) has yet to be designed.

Either wait for CCP or make something with sockets on your own - for the sake of simply sending an announcement across servers, it should be not that difficult.

[Doldol]

You could use a database, but that isn't optimal and not what a database is designed for.
Peer to peer also isn't optimal, because every server will have to keep a connection open to every other server, which is wasteful.

Best thing to do would be to have a centralized server to which all your servers connect & to design your own protocol to communicate between game server and your central server. One of the most useful advantages over using a plain db is that you can shove heavy calculations or i/o bound operations to this server, keeping your game server lag-free. Another advantage is that you also tighten the gaping security hole an open database connection on the game server is (for larger communities especially).

I like to use websockets and then communicate using JSON encoded strings, JSON & websockets (especially with modern libraries) take a lot of low-level work out of regular sockets and are supported virtually everywhere.

Personally I have this implemented using Django + Daphne on a web server and websocket-client with SourcePython on the game server.

[decompile]

Thank you for your responses, but im personally waiting for @iPlayer to finish CCP which sounds very interesting.