Swell! that's good to know. thank you

Ok, thanks for clarifying that - I suspected that was the case and it does make sense. And yes, perhaps I can accomplish what I want through other means. If you wouldn't mind, I'll send you an email with a rough screen mockup of the type of lobby I'm thinking about.

thanks again,
brandon

I am attempting to have a lobby where players can start a game but without leaving the lobby - they will just update a user variable to reflect a 'busy' status that the others see. But I don't even get far enough to use the 'dontLeave' flag on an joinRoom() call, because it seems like creating a gam...

Yes, user data is going to be in a database, but I figured that each user would pull up his/her data when they connect and then set userVariables in Smartfox. I was thinking about using onUserVariablesUpdate to notify the other players in the room of any changes, and then update the datagrid accordi...

ah. thank you for the insight, Lapo. In my game, I would like to have the lobby list not only the usernames, but also a number of other associated user details such as status, statistics, etc..., and so a player can browse and sort potential opponents while being able to compare them all. I am plann...

will performance suffer by letting a room get very large? for example, say, 500 users autojoin a default lobby room for a game. besides the user experience perhaps being a bit overwhelming by such a long list of players, would smartfox have problems handling such a crowded single room? It's just tha...

Hooray, it's exciting to be working with SFBasic now! I am building a multiplayer (2 person) game in which the players send eachother data twice every second. I am using smartfox.sendObject for these packets of information. However, I have noticed that after a short period of game play, the players ...