BungeeCord support

[Wolf2323]

Current BungeeCord Support

We do not support BungeeCord currently officaly but:
If you use MySQL with the same Database for multiple servers and a Player switch between servers, everything in the database is correctly saved and loaded. This means, that if you manage the rest by your own, you can use BungeeCord with BetonQuest.
This means that the following things are sync:

• The Backpack (/backpack)
• Journal (/journal)
• language (/questlang)
• Objectives
• Points
• Tags
• Conversations

Exception

Data modified directly before the player logs out (logout objective) may be lost when the player switches between multiple servers in a BungeeCord network. See the issue on a fellow quest plugin for details.

Not Supported Yet

In general we can not execute things over multiple servers. This means that the following things may need to be implemented:

• Global Points (You can ask for them, but every server overrides them, whithout other server notice about that, when saving)
• Global Tags (You can ask for them, but every server overrides them, whithout other server notice about that, when saving)
• Events can't run cross servers
• Conditions can't ask things from other servers
• Variables can't access information from other servers
• Warning "Read objective X from database but it is not defined in config" is remade:
  • If BQ finds such an objective etc. it will offer two options: Delete from database and Ignore
  • If Ignore is selected BQ will write into ignored.yml in the shards BQ plugin folder. Then the warning will not be displayed again. It's possible to select Ignore package or Ignore current. Regular expressions are supported.

The list of supported and unsupported features in BungeeCord is may not complete. If we notice something, we update this list.

The Goal of BQ 2.0 will be a more reliable BungeeCord support.

It might also be worth to support other proxies.

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Scope of the Bungee Cord support

What are use cases for BungeeCord support?

• Full Sync Instance Servers like Wynncraft
• Part Sync Shard Servers like Legend
• No Sync Server that use the same database
  • We don't care if a package with the same name exists on both servers. This may cause data loss but they really should use the same database. We do allow the use of the ignore feature.

[Lorias-Jak]

Just some random thoughts

• It would be cool to be able to integrate events, conditions and objectives for proxies in BetonQuest. For example, an objective could be the network join, others could follow, an event could be the execution of a proxy-side command, and so on.
• Support for proxy plugins and provision of events, conditions and objectives that can be accessed. Not all plugins are Bukkit/Spigot/Paper sided, some are only Velocity or Bungee sided. There are already use-cases where a BetonQuest-side support for the proxy would be helpful.