There is something I forgot to add into the recent development update: I’m currently working on premium slots. Premium slots are a limited number of slots, that is reserved to a special set of players. These players will need to authenticate and can then join your server, even if the maximum number of players is reached.
Since CubeWorld doesn’t have a global account authentication, everyone can rename his character. This prevents us from identifying users with their character names. As a workaround, premium users will need to authenticate in CWSWeb. Their IP is then entered into a special table, and MITM can check on new connections, if a player has premium access. In MITM, you’ll need to specify a number of premium slots. These slots add up to the number of maximum users. If you want a premium only server, you can set the maximum number of players to 0. This way you can use the premium system as a whitelist replacement for users with dynamic IPs.
The system itself is currently in a very early stage and not functional. But if everything works well, it should be ready at the end of the week.
On a sidenote: I finished the logging overhaul in MITM. It can now log to your file system as well. I’ll explain the new system in an upcoming post.
Chris created the first CWSRestart version in July 2013. In real life he is a student in Germany. He can be usually found on Reddit under the same name /u/ChrisK91. Besides CubeWorld, his frequently played games are of course Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program.