Checking for Single Player

[Belgarath]

Checking for Single Player

A lot of RPGs have a function that just boots you out if you play it alone. That's completely idiotic. Checking if a game is Single Player is SO incredibly easy. It's a single condition.

The Condition

Yes. Just one simple condition. It is:

• Single Player Checking
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
    • Current game is singleplayer Equals (==) True
    • Actions

You can find it by going into conditions: Boolean>Preset>Current game is singleplayer. That's it. That's all you need for it.

Boot Trigger [Optional]

If you actually want to boot people if in SP, just use this incredibly simple trigger.

• Single Player Checking
  • Actions
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
    • Current game is singleplayer Equals (==) True
  • Actions
    • Player Group - Pick every player in (All players) and do (Game - Defeat (Picked player) with the message: Use LAN or B.Net instead of Single Player)

That's all you really need for a system to disallow single playing. Thanks for reading.

 

[Just_Spectating]

Rofl, a system?

this is more like a Tip.

 

[Belgarath]

System? Where? Oh, that. I was kinda.. raging. Changed though, Lol

 

[Linaze]

Useful, but more of a "hint" than a tutorial.

 

[Septimus]

Haha... nice tips.. should be approve.

 

[PurplePoot]

It doesn't check for single player. It checks if there is one player in the game.

Also, this is far too short to be a tutorial.

Also, it doesn't really help anyone - they have to check if the game is single player in order to boot people in the first place...

 

[Belgarath]

Oh. Shit. I was so angry that I forgot to check it.
Graveyard it then, I suppose.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Best method I know is to use game cache, save it and then try and load it. If it is LAN or Bnet, it will fail to load and no values will be stored in the cache (thus you can tell it is MP). If it is single player, values will be saved and then loaded so a certain value would be returned.

Basically, store a value in a gamecache.
Save game cache.
Load game cache as a new variable.
Check if game cache has stored value.

I believe this is what SWAT aftermath uses. If it does not work then obviously they use the game cache in another way but it definatly uses one for single player detection.

 

[Pyritie]

Graveyarded.