Adding Match Labels in client relay matches

[themonstersarecoding]

I’m sorry if this is a simple solution, but for the life of me I can’t find where to set a match label when creating a match. I’m using Godot with Nakama and everything is working so far, but is there a way to set a match label when creating a match from Godot?

[lugehorsam]

Hey @themonstersarecoding, I think reading through this discussion would be helpful. In short, we don’t support creation of match labels from the clients:

Match name/label

Hi, I’m developing a real-time multiplayer game and I’m using: C++ & cocos2d-x 3.17.2 Nakama Server 2.12.0 Nakama Cocos2d API 2.3.0 The question is: how can I configure the room’s name (or label) when I create a new match? These are the features I’m trying to do in my game: A player could create a new room/match with a custom name. A player could see all the rooms created currently in the server, and what players are playing in each room. For make the second point, I’m using the method l…

[themonstersarecoding]

There it is thanks! But if you use authoritative matches there’s no issue? I’m wondering if I can use authoritative matches with off band networking in Godot. At first glance this doesn’t seem like it’d be a problem, but I’ll have to look into it.

[zyro]

Authoritative matches set their own labels, either based on internal logic or client input depending on the match handler code you set up.

The distinction is important - clients never set match labels directly (you won’t find a “set label” function or any similar parameter on the client side.