Servers • Re: [Server] Inside The Box [Puzzles]

1. Rebrand the confusingly named "MatchMaker" series (red teleporter) to "Quick Start" (because this is what it basically is) and move the teleporters to a spot where they can be accessed faster. Ideal for impatient players who are like "Just let me PLAY already, I don’t want to bother with details". :D. Should always pick an UNSOLVED box for obvious reasons, (unless all boxes are solved ofc) (idk if it already does that; the terminal suggests it doesn't because it always picks box 2 for you??? o_O)

I'll ponder over the extensive other feedback items you gave at a later point, but, I just chuckled at the "always picks box 2" reference.

As I'm the server owner/admin, my scores for any of the boxes are never recorded - after all, I can cheat through every box on the server if I wanted to. So early on, I coded up the exception that none of my box solving attempts are part of the ranking/rating system. The easiest way to do this was just to not ever record that I had completed a box. Hence "it always suggests box #2" to me is a reference that technically I haven't completed any boxes, and it keeps recommending the incredibly bad first ever box I made, which is box #2.

Boxes #0 and #1 are the actual entrance and exit lobbies we made at first. They're not the ones used on the server right now, I think we just made 2 new ones at a much later point and those are the entrance/exit lobbies that have been in use ever since. So box #2 was the "well now we need an actual sort of playable box" test box I made to test the actual playability. It was made without any thought and widely should be regarded as the worst ever box made. ;)

The MatchMaker does absolutely pick unsolved boxes. It might need some further tuning for people who have completed nearly everything at some point, but it's a good start for most players nonetheless.

Statistics: Posted by sofar — Tue Apr 21, 2026 21:06