# Announcing Community Condos **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [March 14, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891 "2017-03-14T00:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/macdguy/32/3448_2.png) [@macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/macdguy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/1 "2017-03-14T00:42:37Z")
Hey everyone, this is hot off the presses (and is not Project 39)! There are some problems with hosting unofficial Plaza servers that we’ve been trying to solve internally for a while now and we wanted to let you know where we are on that. First off, we don’t have an effective solution for protecting the Casino economy from hacking. A server host could pull a man-in-the-middle attack on the bets and transactions to mimic or alter player participation in Casino games. The same thing goes for any Boardwalk games, Bowling, and the Arcade. We can’t reliably determine if a payout was authentic in this scenario. Some authentication schemes were proposed internally but would require a lot of extra development time to get working, we’d like to spend that time making new stuff for the game instead. The other issue we’ve run up against is, we don’t have plans for Plaza customizability. The Plaza is a very complicated part of our game and we just don’t know how to open that up to players for customization. To solve these issues (and more), we’ve come up with a new feature for our game that will replace player-hosted lobbies: # PRESENTING… COMMUNITY CONDOS The basic concept is that condos will evolve beyond just being a personal space, and will become player-hosted communities. Rather than having players host their own lobbies, they will be able to host dedicated public condos. This means that when the owner leaves, the dedicated condo will still be available for others. And at any time their friends can join and optionally edit the condo. With this upcoming update, there will be tools which will enable condo owners to manage their own community. A condo owner will be able to moderate, edit groups, set permissions on guests, etc. These changes will affect both dedicated and non-dedicated condos. We also have ideas on how to expand upon our tool-set for editing condos to allow both the host and their guests to change the condos layout, place items, etc. We’ll also be looking into more Plaza-esque levels that you can buy for your condos. The new logic IO system will allow players to use the condo editor to design their own contraptions and games within the condo setting. We hope you’re all as pumped as we are for these improvements to the condos. We can’t wait to see what you create in your dedicated condos. Please feel free to ask us any questions you may have. **All our love,** _PixelTail Games_ ---
**Author:** ![AmGona](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/amgona/32/79422_2.png) [@AmGona](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/AmGona)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/2 "2017-03-14T00:45:13Z")
o my ---
**Author:** ![WereTech](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/weretech/32/40337_2.png) [@WereTech](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/WereTech)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/3 "2017-03-14T00:45:28Z")
sounds good ---
**Author:** ![Rad](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/rad/32/7307_2.png) [@Rad](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Rad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/4 "2017-03-14T00:48:25Z")
AHHHHHHHHHH god ---
**Author:** ![Nommiin](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/nommiin/32/39629_2.png) [@Nommiin](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Nommiin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/5 "2017-03-14T00:48:45Z")
This sounds sweet, looking forward to it! ---
**Author:** ![zombieassasin417](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/zombieassasin417/32/13193_2.png) [@zombieassasin417](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/zombieassasin417)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/6 "2017-03-14T00:49:04Z")
So to be clear, the ability to host lobbies is going away? ---
**Author:** ![ProcopiousJones](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/procopiousjones/32/7928_2.png) [@ProcopiousJones](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/ProcopiousJones)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/7 "2017-03-14T00:50:04Z")
HOT DAMN [![](http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/THISGONBGUD.gif) ](http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/THISGONBGUD.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Kpazz\_SmokeyMcpot](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/kpazz_smokeymcpot/32/30719_2.png) [@Kpazz\_SmokeyMcpot](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Kpazz_SmokeyMcpot)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/8 "2017-03-14T00:50:20Z")
Now this is something I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. Thanks Pixeltail, Great moves, keep it up, proud of you 👌 ---
**Author:** ![Computrix](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/computrix/32/58238_2.png) [@Computrix](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Computrix)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/9 "2017-03-14T00:53:27Z")
“We’ll also be looking into more Plaza-esque levels that you can buy for your condos.” I’m looking forward to this! Can’t wait to see what new condo types come out! ---
**Author:** ![AshGe](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/ashge/32/15446_2.png) [@AshGe](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/AshGe)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/10 "2017-03-14T00:55:39Z")
YES! YEEEEEES! \*faints from happiness \* ---
**Author:** ![Skellie](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/skellie/32/63157_2.png) [@Skellie](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Skellie)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/11 "2017-03-14T00:59:05Z")
UGLY SOBBING FROM HAPPINESS. ;o; ---
**Author:** ![FancyCrow](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/fancycrow/32/26424_2.png) [@FancyCrow](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/FancyCrow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/12 "2017-03-14T01:02:03Z")
yee [![](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121010021216/dragonball/images/f/f0/PARTY_HARD.gif) ](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121010021216/dragonball/images/f/f0/PARTY_HARD.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Toycyborg](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/toycyborg/32/7922_2.png) [@Toycyborg](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Toycyborg)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/13 "2017-03-14T01:02:53Z")
heavy breathing in the distance ---
**Author:** ![Cakemagic](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/cakemagic/32/26308_2.png) [@Cakemagic](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Cakemagic)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/14 "2017-03-14T01:02:54Z")
Question: Are these community condos client hosted, or are they run from a dedicated server software? ---
**Author:** ![Sabrina](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/sabrina/32/83818_2.png) [@Sabrina](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Sabrina)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/15 "2017-03-14T01:03:58Z")
> [@Cakemagic](#): > > Are these community condos client hosted, or are they run from a dedicated server software? Both. ---
**Author:** ![Cakemagic](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/cakemagic/32/26308_2.png) [@Cakemagic](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Cakemagic)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/16 "2017-03-14T01:05:26Z")
> [@Sabrina](#): > > Both. I suppose I should specify if they run on the current peer-to-peer system or a dedicated server software ---
**Author:** ![anon38270777](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@anon38270777](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/anon38270777)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/17 "2017-03-14T01:07:21Z")
YES! I’ve been hoping for something that will let us build with friends for a long time now, I can’t believe it’s becoming a thing! 😍 ---
**Author:** ![Sabrina](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/sabrina/32/83818_2.png) [@Sabrina](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Sabrina)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/18 "2017-03-14T01:08:53Z")
> [@Cakemagic](#): > > I suppose I should specify if they run on the current peer-to-peer system or a dedicated server software You can run them either how you make condos now, by hosting it yourself, but the minute you leave the server closes, or you can run it as a dedicated server that will continue running regardless of you being in the server or not. ---
**Author:** ![MaskedKatz](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/maskedkatz/32/57419_2.png) [@MaskedKatz](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/MaskedKatz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/19 "2017-03-14T01:11:12Z")
This is going to be so cool!! I can’t wait to build with friends and have my condo as an actual server, this is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Clark](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/clark/32/777_2.png) [@Clark](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891/20 "2017-03-14T01:11:14Z")
so hyped for this! this is exactly what condos needed and I can already imagine the possibilities! 😃 Thanks a lot Pixeltail x [Next page](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/announcing-community-condos/19891.md?page=2)