If you have a gold profile signed in and also a silver profile logged in and try to find or join a network session get, you receive an error. Meaning I have to force players silver or offline to log out in order to continue. I have changed the code a million times to comply with these checklist items, but it seems contradictory. If literally cannot have a logged in profile that is silver or offline, how can I comply with keeping all players signed in? On top of that I was advised in my playtest thread I should ignore the input of other players and always allow 4 local players to prevent force signing out, but that is simply not possible then.

You cannot designate a player index for who is playing, and it will always start the session with the first signed in player, etc.

I know people have had network games passed, obviously, so can someone shed some light on this?

You can choose which profiles participate in the network session: this is one of the parameters when you create or search for sessions.

What I would do is:

• Let the player pick which local profile they are using (via a Press Start screen, and whichever gamepad presses start becomes the active profile)
• If your game supports more than one local player, let them pick other local profiles in addition (via some kind of "press A to join in" screen)
• When they go to network mode, check if all the active profiles have the necessary privileges
• If they do not, show the sign-in screen to let the players pick a different profile
• When you create the session, tell the network API which profiles are active
• This way it's fine to have a silver profile signed in, just not fine for that silver profile to be chosen to play in the network session (which is never allowed)

Shawn,

How do I designate which profiles are active for a session when creating?

 I could not find this in the documentation.

Thanks again, your always helpful.

I actually see now an add local gamer and remove local gamer in the network session. Since I had to do nothing before, does that mean everyone is already signed in? Would I need to manually remove the players then? The only reason i am confused about that is everyone was showing up before I even discovered this, so everyone seems to be added from the start.

I am confused as to how this would work since I get errors when searching for games before one is even created. Perhaps the "active" profiles methods are different then the method I found?

I guess my question is how to I designate a profile as actuve, everyone seems to be active when they sign in. Thanks

Hi,

I don't think you are talking about the same thing. I suppose Shawn was talking about the third syntax of the BeginCreate, the one containing as second parameter a list of the gamers participating in the game: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd231925.aspx

Cheers,
Pino

I guess I was confused because that parameter is not available in Create, only BeginCreate. I have been using create. So I guess I am forced to use that?


Thanks

Raining Talent LLC:

I guess I was confused because that parameter is not available in Create, only BeginCreate. I have been using create. So I guess I am forced to use that?

That's not correct, that syntax is available in the Create as well: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd231953.aspx

Cheers,
Pino

Intellisense is not recognizing the parameter. Let me see if I can add it anyway and I will get back to you and let you know if it worked. Thanks.

Raining Talent LLC:

Intellisense is not recognizing the parameter. Let me see if I can add it anyway and I will get back to you and let you know if it worked. Thanks.

For the IntelliSense is the syntax #3: if you don't see it something is wrong with your installation.

Cheers,
Pino

I have 3.1 and everything else seems to be working correctly.The only issue I have i its not showing that parameter allowed.

Here is a screen shot

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Nevermind, I see its an overload. Thanks :)

Raining Talent LLC:

Nevermind, I see its an overload. Thanks :)

You're welcome ;)