Why does this work on !HasAuthority?

[rwita]

I’ve got a function on my playercontroller that gets called at begin play and it calls the server function that increases my players resources. It was getting double called for a single tick at the beginning so I changed to HasAuthority() to run it on the server and it only ran once. But it seems to work when not has authority is used. Why is this?

[3dRaven]

negating has authority returns if an actor doesn’t have network authority.

You can narrow this down with GetNetMode

GetNetMode() returns an enum ENetMode where you can compare

ENetMode::NM_DedicatedServer
ENetMode::NM_Client
ENetMode::NM_ListenServer
ENetMode::NM_Standalone

for more granular control

so

if(GetNetMode() == ENetMode:::NM_Client){
}

would check if it’s a client