[JocAnis]

yo guys...a question about userid: how is it generated ? i would like to know exactly in which cases, can it be repeated ever...
i thought when player connects he got his permanent userid and thats it...but when i go retry it changes (usually with +1)

thanks in advance!

[Airkish]

Probably something like this lastid+1;
It is set on player connect (or something along those lines).

[Kushfield]

You can think of UserID more as a connection ID - it is increased by one on every new connection to the server, meaning that a player will keep the same UserID only from connecting to the server to disconnecting from the server. When the server restarts, the IDs start counting from one again.

[JocAnis]

thaaaanks

Originally Posted by Kushfield When the server restarts, the IDs start counting from one again.

good explanation kushfield, this espeacially...but what about: playing 17/32 players...one of player's userid is 9609, from another is: 9431...huge difference, how possible?

[klippy]

The one with the much lower userid has been on the server for a longer time. 178 connections is not a large number, a popular server probably goes through so many in less than an hour.

[JocAnis]

so it means, its (max_userid+1) on client_disconnect ? cuz when map changes his ID stays the same

[klippy]

It's just a number that increments by 1 on every new connection thus keeping it unique for every client, that's it, don't overthink it.

[JocAnis]

i started to think to implement somehwere that get_user_userid...but its like only made for kick xD

[klippy]

It's useful (and the proper way) for keeping track of a client across any asynchronous operations, like tasks, frame requests, database queries, http requests and such.

[Natsheh]

The userid should be saved for each steamid.

Max userids = Max clients which have connected to the server.