Steam-Style servers

[Orange_Slime_]

Steam has it set up so if a server has steam workshop supported mods, the client will download those mods instead of you having to download mods for a server manually, and have a server finder too?

[Red Iron Crown]

There is no official multiplayer or built-in mod management yet. Multiplayer is in development, haven't heard about mod management.

[Orange_Slime_]

that's why it's a suggestion

[Red Iron Crown]

Fair enough, sorry for the grumpiness.

Robust mod management would be a great feature, and having it manage required mods for a given multiplayer server would be a useful function. It's a good idea.

[Orange_Slime_]

Yeah, Maybe squad can get tehgimp666's permission and build off of that to get a head start.

[KerbMav]

Usage of the steam drive would be nice - so I could play my save at home and at my friend's computer, without having to copy it over first.

Or is there a way to make steam cloud save manually?

[Orange_Slime_]

Makes sense, my only problem with steam modding is you have to download the mods every time you load a world. and it seems to me that server connections thru steam would be slow. so maybe find the server with steam and then directly connect to it?

(I hate it when I disagree with my own ideas sometimes)

[Eric S]

My biggest concern when I see this brought up is that by my understanding, incorporating any of the major steam functionalities means including steam DRM due to the way it's all structured, and that would be a not-insignificant downside to me. I haven't found anyone that can show me a game that includes steam workshop, for example, that doesn't also include DRM.

Doing their own launcher with game management features would probably divert too much of their development time. After all, it was easier for them to pass off the SpacePort functionality to Curse when the SpacePort2 developer left than it was to finish development.

Not saying the idea itself isn't good, just that there are potential issues.

[Redjoker]

My biggest concern when I see this brought up is that by my understanding, incorporating any of the major steam functionalities means including steam DRM due to the way it's all structured, and that would be a not-insignificant downside to me.I haven't found anyone that can show me a game that includes steam workshop, for example, that doesn't also include DRM.

Games don't have to use Steam Drm to use the workshop. Examples: Prison Architect, Skyrim, Goat Simulator, EUIV, CKII, space engineers. I'm 90% sure about these, but I may be wrong about a few.

Also, the Devs have said previously that they will not do features specific to one version.

[raidernick]

The idea isn't good. Not everybody who owns this game has it on steam. These people would not be able to access the servers or the mods. Not everyone wants steam and forcing those who bought it directly from ksp site and not steam is rude.

[Red Iron Crown]

I don't think it will be implemented through Steam, that would alienate all the players who don't use it.

[Orange_Slime_]

Steam has been implemented with ksp, my idea might come true

[Orange_Slime_]

I think there are ways you can have your non steam one deactivated and be given a key for steam

[Red Iron Crown]

I think there are ways you can have your non steam one deactivated and be given a key for steam

That's only for store purchases bought before Steam was an option. At any rate, as far as I know there are no plans to go Steam-only for KSP, which is a boon for those of us who don't use it.

[Orange_Slime_]

Okay, I didn't know that, I only would use steam for broadcasting or workshop, maybe move curse stuff to workshop or at least mirror it