Not everybody is able to open ports and host games. If you run this container on a VPS, anybody can play, because this will host NBlood servers automatically all the time! It also functions as a server browser, people will be able to see these servers and hop into one of them and wait until it gets full and then the game will start. (It is advised to start the game in windowed mode so you can do other stuff while you wait, when the game is started, you can switch back to fullscreen.) It is still not possible to join if the game has already started! But people can join to another server and wait until it gets full and after this the game will be eventually started.
### How it works
After you start the container, the following will happen:
6 NBlood servers will be started, each will have a different number of maximum players, ranging from 3 to 8. Each server will have a player named `SERVER` which won't do anything, you can kill it and it will never respawn. If people open the `listservers` URL, they will see the ports for all the servers - and to make it easier for them - they will also see the command line what they can just copy and paste into a command prompt if they want to join. They will also see how many players have already joined. The game will only start if the required (maximum) number of players have joined. In that case, a new server will be started automatically, so other people can play too. Let's say 3 people joined to the 3 player server, then a new 3 player server will be launched automatically. It is possible to request private servers with the `startserver` URL with the desired number of required players. These servers are not listed by `listservers`. In the response of `startserver` you will get the port number for that server. Not anybody can start a private server, people need to know the API key for that.