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6 minutes if no one joins after starting directly.
Furthermore, yes you'll have to turn the server back on. It's however possible to also let your players turn the server on themself using share access.
Can you tell me more about share access? sorry, im new to this kind of thing
This is probably asked alot (if so sorry) but I heard that servers are up 24/7, but I also heard that its only up if theres a player online.
which one is true, and will the server have to manually go back up for players to join if the second option is true?
