OK 2 side questions for you and sestus2009 and anyone else that wants to hop in.
First before starting this is the first game I have ever played with others where I am hosting them as such. So all this server stuff is brand new to me.
So when I load into the game I am the host so I click on Single Player/Co-op I then activate Co-op on the little pop up window and go in then when my friends are around I just send then the invite to join in.
Is this what you were referring to as Private server or is this something else. If it is can this be safely run from a laptop as thats what I run off of. If this is not what you meant can you expand on this like where should we click to get into this and secondly if it is somewhere different we need to click can we continue on with the progress we have currently made with the single player/co-op mode in this new area?
If this is what you meant do I need to change a setting in the server settings to turn tethering off so they can wander around as they want as I tend to stay close to the base to build while they do about fighting and such.
And the second question is one of my friends is considering paying for a server so we can play when we want without the need for others to be on. If he does that can we load into out current saved world from that is would we need to start fresh and secondly being he would then be the host since he’d be paying for the server would we need to upload anything that might be in my saved world on my laptop that he or I would need to upload. Is there also a way for him to say make me a mod or admin that would allow me to do this without the need to email him my save files?
OK hope thats clear as long response since the post has veered into a new direction.
PS I also checked the settings and found tethering is set to 52,000 which from what I saw in another steam post seemed to be the max but is there a way to disable tethering in the server setting panel? Basically I want to let them do their thing while I do mine.