alright so this is an idea that came to mind when practicing for clan league

basically, while making a server private ensures that only people who are welcome can chat and play.
however, it still allows for spectators which eliminates the possibility of, as an example, practicing for clan league.
lowering the maxclients and adding VIP spots can be a hassle, along with raising the maxclients whenever your friend wants to join.


this picture shows how i'm thinking it would work

to explain a bit more detailed, a normal player can't see any hint of the hidden servers existing.
although they can still join it by writing "/jo *roomname*"
however, to prevent hidden servers doing nasty stuff against the rules, the gamemasters and
what not are still available to see these servers but with some kind of way showing if they are hidden.

EDIT:

did not think of the /sa *playername* option. in my opinion this command could simply say "this player is in a hidden server" or something
but yeah if a gm and what not does it, it shows what it does normally

What's the point between this and /passwd

/passwd disables whispers, disables shouts, no one can join you dont want. Also a lot of the farming people are reported from user reports I think, so that would just make it a bit harder. I doubt any GM looks through all the servers to find out if someone is farming.

Yeah setting a password is basically good enough. I think that would be complicating things. But then again it won't hurt anyone not having it emplimented

i would enjoy not getting mobbed by people when i play. /passwd isn't the same, sometimes you just want some intimate alone time with your friends while you "experiment".

Why isn't /minbelt 100000 or something like that an option? That makes all non-admin players unavailable to join the room yet you can always /vip add those who you need in it.

this still doesn't support having the server completely hidden, as people will still see it on the server list

also your solution is an alternative fix that's annoying to do, if you have a big amount of friends joining in you'll sit and /vip everyone which is a hassle

/minbelt 100000
/vip add <friend>

I don't think is very hard to do. It's a maximum of 39 characters if you include spaces (or 43 if you include pressing enter to start and end the command twice with spaces) for two people and setting the minimum belt to 100000. I don't think this is all too difficult to do.

In my opinion, the implementation is unecessary.

How many friends do you want to invite to your server and keep it hidden? 20?
Also I don't see any reasons why there has to be an option to hide rooms at all. That would only result in farming as most farming cases are being reported by regular users. GMs or any other staff members don't check the server list each 10 minutes.

you say "two" people

i wouldn't imagine doing this for 22 more people.

Besides, the server is not hidden when you do that.

Its a lot easier if you just copy the command, and then paste in the name of who you want to be vip.