[Solved] What determines how private a TF2 server is?

[djotaku]

I setup a private server and left it running a few hours before our event. When I came back it was full of people not from our group. Does this mean that it ended up being in the Valve rotation when people are looking for a server to play? Or it it more likely that our group's events aren't private or something and they just found out about it?

Thanks,

[Ghost Assassin]

If you want your server to be private or for only specified players, you can put a password on the server.

You need to put sv_password "passwordhere" in your server.cfg and restart your server.

Only people that know the password can join your server.

[djotaku]

Thank you - that's very useful!

[Ghost Assassin]

Just a fyi when you want to connect to the passworded TF2 server.

When you launch your TF2 client game, open your console with ~ and type

Code:

connect ip:port ; password "passwordhere"

For example,

Code:

connect 192.137.3.13:27015; password donuts

Also if you want to remove the password from the server. Just edit your server.cfg by leaving the command as sv_password "" (Leave it blank in the "") and restart your server.

[djotaku]

Awesome! I was wondering how to connect without having to create an event. Thanks again!