[Feature Request] [TF2] User-initiated join to Steam community group associated
with a server.
Primarily oriented to TF2, but would be nice for any SCRDS (and HLDS?) game
server?
There are several servers out there that have managed to setup an automated
Steam Community Group invite whenever a player joins the server that doesn't
already belong to the group.
I have been tempted to setup something like that myself, but haven't for
several reasons:
1) The way its being done is probably against Valve's terms-of-service.
2) As a player, I hate getting group invite spam.
3) I would prefer something USER-INITIATED.
However, there is IMH(f)O, good reason to make finding and joining a group
associated with a server easier for players:
1) Most users a idiots who can't read and correctly type a URL.
2) There is currently no easy way to do this in-game (i.e. inside TF2 for
example).
3) Many serves link Steam group membership to extra in-game features.
4) It drives the utilization of Steam community groups - instead of just being
meaningless garbage.
What I would like to see is perhaps an extension of the "registration" system
that TF2 already uses, with enhancements such as this:
1) Add an in-game command that players can use to initiate their own request to
join a particular group - with the game automatically knowing what group is
associated with the server they are playing-on. Maybe like on the menu, or
bind to a key or, better-yet as an in-game chat-trigger ("!join" or "!invite")
or something like that.
2) The game client gets the information from Steam or from the server. Either
as another CVAR that server operators set, or better yet by automatically using
the Steam user that the server is "registered" to - and automatically using
that Steam account's "primary group".
Anyway, posting this in the GitHub and on the HLDS mailing list.
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