MP suggestion: Enable admin to set spawn point for all new players

[SunGod]

Suggestion for multiplayer games: Enable the admin to set a fixed spawn point for all NEW players who join a game (i.e., configurable setting in serverconfig.xml). Existing players who have previously logged in would respawn at their last location as they do today. As a plus, it would be nice to enable multiple fixed spawn locations on a MP server, that way an admin can ensure not all players spawn at only a single fixed spawn point, but enable them to spawn in one of (x) spawn locations (as defined by the admin in the serverconfig.xml file). The reasoning behind this: I'd like to have an admin-protected starting area where players will spawn and get their start. Ideas we've had include having a trading post there, and that central spawn point would also serve as a point of reference location for players in large random generation worlds. Cheers SunGod

[Alloc]

Would require that no one can be killed in that area as otherwise such feature would get all bad boys gather around those locations and kill each new player ;) Other than that I like the idea :)

[=Tattoo=]

Forgive me if this sounds insane, but isn't that what spawnpoints.xml is for? Looks like you can already do this to me ;)

[cheebsco]

I like the idea of a feature for spawning. Although it is possible to spawn into a world at a fixed location, there is no protection status on player, unless PVP is turned off and Friendly Fire turned off as well. A Trading Post would be pretty neat to see too.