Fantastic news
On a side note, and please understand that it is not in an attempt to be a **** but when reading Caps' suggestion that reminded me of something I had forgotten about after giving up on it being a thing during the closed beta. That that very solution was brought up about 5 months ago by.... Armagan himself:
From that thread:
https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/patch-notes-b0-4-0-b0-4-1.390085/post-9189973
I'm mostly wondering if it was forgotten during the wait for passworded servers to be supported, anyways I'm just happy to soon be able to have a dedicated place to test and (hopefully not but we all know how it goes) break the melee