You can ask to requisition a server instance to run a particular activity. That is, you can ask Syntensity to find an available server instance, and to make it run that activity. First, find the activity, on the Activities page. It might be convenient to check "Show only mine" in order to see only your activities. Then, click on the activity to see its details, and click 'Requisition a server instance to run this activity.'
Connecting to a requisitioned serverRight after successfully requisitioning a server, you will be taken to your account page, where you can see your list of requisitioned servers, including the one just requisitioned.
Alternatively, you can do 'manual connect...' in the client program, and enter the IP address of the server and the port, instead of selecting a server. The lifecycle of a requisitioned serverAfter a server instance gets a requisition command (from the master server, in response to a user request), the server does the following:
In particular, this means that if you requisition a server, either manually or using the map creation wizard, if you leave that server and try to connect to it later, you may find that your map is not still running there. Instead, the server may be running no map at all (in which case you will get an error when trying to connect, "Server is not running a map") or it may be running some other map (if meanwhile it was requisitioned to do so by someone else). In such a case, just do another requisition request, as detailed at the top of this page, and another server will be found to run your map. Note that you can also set up a 'permanent' server that always runs your map. Such servers are independent of the requisitioning process, that is, they can't be requisitioned to run maps, and they don't shut down when they become empty. For more on that, see here. |