http://toxikk.com/newspost/lan-play-and-dedicated-servers/
ToxikkOriginally, we intended to limit match hosting for players who have purchased Clan Admin Privileges (CAPs) for TOXIKK to our own servers. However, as we saw that this plan was poorly received by the community (e.g. here and here), we started to discuss alternatives to liberalize the system and came up with a new plan which goes as follows:
If you have purchased CAPs, you will be able to set up a private dedicated server on your own machine. This server may literally be online forever. Besides the dedicated server option, you will also be able to host a match through a simple listener server on your machine via the game’s GUI, which will be online for the time you play (i.e. have the game running). A listener server will not only allow you to quickly host online matches, but also to host LAN-play matches. Happy LAN-partying everybody! :)
Still need to pay for CAP to host but apparently their idea is that most people aren't interested in hosting a dedicated server so why make them pay extra for functionality they won't use. Personally I think that functionality doesn't really cost any extra but this is a step in the right direction.
http://toxikk.com/newspost/lan-play-and-dedicated-servers/
[quote=Toxikk]Originally, we intended to limit match hosting for players who have purchased Clan Admin Privileges (CAPs) for TOXIKK to our own servers. However, as we saw that this plan was poorly received by the community (e.g. here and here), we started to discuss alternatives to liberalize the system and came up with a new plan which goes as follows:
If you have purchased CAPs, you will be able to set up a private dedicated server on your own machine. This server may literally be online forever. Besides the dedicated server option, you will also be able to host a match through a simple listener server on your machine via the game’s GUI, which will be online for the time you play (i.e. have the game running). A listener server will not only allow you to quickly host online matches, but also to host LAN-play matches. Happy LAN-partying everybody! :) [/quote]
Still need to pay for CAP to host but apparently their idea is that most people aren't interested in hosting a dedicated server so why make them pay extra for functionality they won't use. Personally I think that functionality doesn't really cost any extra but this is a step in the right direction.
Atleast they're listening.
Atleast they're listening.