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I was toying with the idea of removing the possibility of running an 25Assist Server from within the 25Assist Client.
The only option to run a server then would be to do it from the Dedicated server(Windows/Linux)

The reason for removing it from within the client would that it would provide a cleaner interface for clients.
And it would simplify the coding for me, resulting in better code allaround.

One issue I can see is that some that are running a server is not as comfortable editing the ini file for the server with a text editor as to changing the options inside the GUI.

What I suggest is this:

I remove the option to Config/Start Server from within the 25Assist Client.
I build a new GUI to allow server owners to edit/start/stop dedicated server.
The only Server option would be Windows/Linux Dedicated server.

What do you think?

exactly this part of assist did fascinate me, therefor i play assist and aa2.
if you stop it, then i stop playing aa2. so simple it is for me.
would be not really a problem to start a dedicated server on a home pc with a virual machine. but the handling of dedicated servers is so poor.
sorry, but true

No need for separate "dedicated" server for running Dedicated Assist Server.

You can run 20 separate dedicated server.exe on the same machine you are using your client on.
No need to run in a virtual machine, the only thing it means is that it's started from a separate folder than your client. That is the dedicated part.

Let me show you what I mean with then Assist Dedicated servers:

I have 5 folders with AA installs, where I copied the Dedicated servers exe files into:
All I did was to change processed and port, but you have to do that in the client version as well


There is 6 cmd files, 1 for each server, and 1 to start them all:
Here is the content of server01-BridgeCrossing.cmd
.\DedicatedServer01\System\server.exe GLOBAL BRIDGE
exit

And here is the StartAllServers.cmd

start .\server01-BridgeCrossing.cmd
start .\server02-BridgeCrossing.cmd
start .\server03-BridgeCrossing.cmd
start .\server04-BridgeCrossing.cmd
start .\server05-BridgeCrossing.cmd

Here is all 5 servers started:


Here are the servers listed in the Client:



Even with the current Assist version , you should run "Dedicated Server" instead of the "Client Server", especially if you run many instances on the same machine, the client.exe is much larger than the Dedicated.exe

thank you ELiZ for showing me that.
then for sure it is ok for me

Only real disadvantage with the current version of the Assist Dedicated Server is that it's not as easy to setup a server, some files has to be downloaded manually.

But if the move is done, I'll make sure that it's as easy as it is in the client to setup a dedicated server.

you are still my hero !
gj

I'll support this idea as well. Clearer interface and better code sounds good. As long as there's a way to run own server(s) from home I don't think anyone should have anything against this.

This would be identically great idea, mostly everyone agrees with this option as long as they can run ''Home server''.