beforeConnect - To Prevent Limbo Connections

[Stuyk]

Suggestion An event like beforeConnect that has a list of ip, hwid, etc. of the incoming connection and you can return false to prevent the connection and that will allow them to continue browsing servers.

Use cases

• Preventing connections from banned players immediately rather than later in the codebase.
• Waiting for a database to initialize various classes, functions, etc.
• Waiting for data to come down from some external apis.
• Setting up classes, colshapes, etc. before a player joins.

Describe the solution you'd like An event like beforeConnect that has a list of ip, hwid, etc. of the incoming connection and you can return false to prevent the connection and that will allow them to continue browsing servers.

Describe alternatives you've considered Kicking through the playerConnect event if a boolean is true. If the client is not in debug mode they get stuck in the limbo between not being able to reconnect and not being able to rejoin without restarting their client. It's not a good solution and it needs to be something with better control.

[Stuyk]

This was discussed in an internal development channel.

[zziger]

Would be also nice if there would be any possibility to provide custom "disconnect" message to the user

[mrgharabaghi]

Player.socialID could be one of the main elements that beforeConnect event can returns.

[FabianTerhorst]

Added in next release.

[FabianTerhorst]

But the user can only go back to main menu when the server isn't using early auth.

[ThePawlow]

Wuhuuu