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UPDATE May 1st, 2015
We're making great progress so far. A lot of the work has been discussion, but we've come up with a lot of great ideas to help improve the private server experience overall. We are also working on a lot of new tools for server owners to greatly simplify managing a server.
Here is what I can post so far:
We are using the 2.2.3 server files as a base. These are the most up to date files we have before the client data structure was changed. The 2.2.3.2 client files are unnecessarily complex when it comes to modifying things with the ND dat files. The latest OFFICIAL client for 2.2.3 we could find is being used as our base client. Many optimizations are being made to both the client and server files to improve stability, performance, and ease of use. Overall, this project will help people who are completely new to RF easily jump in to the game to run their own server.
More information will be posted soon. Thanks for the support from everyone so far.
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Original post:
Hey guys, long time no see. I'm personally annoyed with what this community has become and am looking to revive things once again. I want to do this via a new server. Whether or not the server is successful is irrelevant. I just want a platform to deploy changes through for testing.
To clarify, this includes the following:
* Retail-based server configuration. No custom items, monsters, maps, or other changes.
* As many bugs fixed as possible with custom fixes to prevent what I would consider as exploits (dupes, auction house, cheating archon voting, etc)
* Custom website control panel.
* Custom launcher with fully featured updating system
As this is developed, everything will be released here. No licenses, no charges for software. All free. The server itself would be a project for what remains of this development community. It will need multiple people working together for this to work. I mainly need someone who can work directly with the RF files. The rest I will be coding myself. I may bring one or two people on to assist with working on other parts of the project once we get going.
So, anyone interested? If so, add me on Skype or discuss below. My skype is ron-kh
Spikey Xcct Killerwoody Agony
We're making great progress so far. A lot of the work has been discussion, but we've come up with a lot of great ideas to help improve the private server experience overall. We are also working on a lot of new tools for server owners to greatly simplify managing a server.
Here is what I can post so far:
We are using the 2.2.3 server files as a base. These are the most up to date files we have before the client data structure was changed. The 2.2.3.2 client files are unnecessarily complex when it comes to modifying things with the ND dat files. The latest OFFICIAL client for 2.2.3 we could find is being used as our base client. Many optimizations are being made to both the client and server files to improve stability, performance, and ease of use. Overall, this project will help people who are completely new to RF easily jump in to the game to run their own server.
More information will be posted soon. Thanks for the support from everyone so far.
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Original post:
Hey guys, long time no see. I'm personally annoyed with what this community has become and am looking to revive things once again. I want to do this via a new server. Whether or not the server is successful is irrelevant. I just want a platform to deploy changes through for testing.
To clarify, this includes the following:
* Retail-based server configuration. No custom items, monsters, maps, or other changes.
* As many bugs fixed as possible with custom fixes to prevent what I would consider as exploits (dupes, auction house, cheating archon voting, etc)
* Custom website control panel.
* Custom launcher with fully featured updating system
As this is developed, everything will be released here. No licenses, no charges for software. All free. The server itself would be a project for what remains of this development community. It will need multiple people working together for this to work. I mainly need someone who can work directly with the RF files. The rest I will be coding myself. I may bring one or two people on to assist with working on other parts of the project once we get going.
So, anyone interested? If so, add me on Skype or discuss below. My skype is ron-kh
Spikey Xcct Killerwoody Agony
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