App and Lobby Stats
Photon servers can broadcast application and lobby statistics to clients.
You can make use of this data to implement a complex custom matchmaking system.
You can also brag about these statistics in your game to show how popular it is. :]
Application Statistics
When connected to a Photon master server, a Photon client receives applications statistics.
Regardless of whether the client is joined to a lobby or not, it will receive AppStats events.
The applications statistics are:
Number of live rooms:
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PhotonNetwork.CountOfRoomsNumber of players not joined to rooms:
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PhotonNetwork.CountOfPlayersOnMasterNumber of players inside rooms:
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PhotonNetwork.CountOfPlayersInRoomsTotal number of connected players:
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PhotonNetwork.CountOfPlayersAppStats event is sent to client every five seconds.
Lobby Statistics
Lobby statistics can be useful if a game uses multiple lobbies and you want to show the activity.
Lobby statistics are per region.
Per typed lobby (name + type) you can get information about:
- Number of live rooms
- Total number of players joined to the lobby or joined to the lobby's rooms
Automatically Get Lobby Statistics
Lobby statistics events are sent as soon as the client is authenticated to a master server.
Then they are sent every minute.
Lobby statistics events are disabled by default.
In PhotonServerSettings, check "Enable Lobby Stats" to get lobby statistics from the server.
If you want to do it from code before connecting:
PhotonNetwork.PhotonServerSettings.AppSettings.EnableLobbySatistics = true;
This works when you connect using PhotonNetwork.ConnectUsingSettings() as that's the only connect method that actually makes use of the ScriptableObject ServerSettings.
If you need to use another connect method, then you should use PhotonNetwork.NetworkingClient.EnableLobbyStatistics = true; before connecting.
Get the statistics from the ILobbyCallbacks.OnLobbyStatisticsUpdate callback which could be useful to update your UI.