[Help] I need information...

[aq1]

First of all, hi to everyone! I just joined this forum, hope it will be as usefull as it seems. :jump1:
Let me tell you what's this about. I play Mu Online from 3-4 years. I have never played in the GMO, but the servers where I played the expirience wasn't too high, so there was some meaning in plaing . Ofcourse I tried some high-xp servers, but they got boring realy fast.:prop:
For those past years I got many cool idias how to make the game much more dynamic and colorful, but I never had the possibility (then) or the time (the past year :P) to make my own server and try the ideas. But recently one of my friends told me about some server with this thing called "Webshop" and the owner of this server did actualy make 1 000 euros for 2 weeks... when I heard this I just remembered how many cool ideas I had and I think if I can make a server exactly how I want it, it will be very interesting for many players. I have an idea how to use the webshop in a way, which not going to disbalance the game. I mean, the only way to be the best in the most servers is either non-stop playing (at least 3 persons at one charachter, but I know a guy who alone played 16 hours a day in one server for a month... after that he was already max stats and perfect set :D) or buying full stats from the Webshop. But in my way, with the webshop u can only reach the best or keep up with him. But to actually go better then him you should play more then him. And the guys who play much and buy things from the webshop won't be immposible to reach. I have many idias of events that can anyone who is familiar with the game can win, no matter if he is strong or not. I even want to make an event which going to be one big puzzle and to solve it the player should find all the NPS-s in the game and carefully read that they say. I'm ready with the money for a top-notch PC so no-matter how many players are online, there is going to be no lag. I will taka care for the server and make my livings on it. I know I can make the game realy fun, with many trades, item searching and teamwork.
But to do all that, i need much information. I've never created a server, so I realy don't know what i can do and what i can't. It will be best if someone who realy knows it all about this stuff contact me in skype or e-mail, but if no one want to do this, i'll be happy with the answers of some questions:
1. Which is the most new version of the game, that is completly clean out of bugs. I want to use something new, but only if all works fine and everything is balanced (for example, one friend told me that "ignore op def" doesn't work in some versions, and it's also far less efective then "mana loss instead of life"
2. Can I edit the stats of items? For example strength requirment and defence of any armor, or the percent of atack rising of dinorant or something like that?
3. Can i make the ability fruit so, that any charachter would be able to drink it, no matter which level or reset he is?
4. Can I make something to track how long some player is online?
This is the questions that i can think about now. If someone is ready to talk to me direct to skype or anything else, just write me a Private Message. Thanks to everyone who read the whole post :D
PS Sorry for my english, i've never actualy learn this language in scholl or anything like it :D

I posted this this morning and someone deleted it? I did so much writing and someone just wiped it out... is this the way you welcome the new users... good thing I coped it in txt, but someone here is... if I broke some of the forum rules u can at least send me PM to tell me which rules, in the normal forums the topic just get locked, not completly deleted...

[MentaL]

[danse]

If every topic wich break the rules would be just closed it would be bilions of them, does this forum really needs a bilion of pointless topics ?

If you want to know wich rules you broke, go and read'em.

1) Search and find out yourself
2) Yes
3) Not exacly
4) Somehow.

[aq1]

Is making a section "Recikle Bin" so hard task :/ A know much more active forums that have this section and they delete the post in there like once per month, but this forum can't.... whatever.
1) If I could, I wouldn't asking, would I ?
2) 10q about that
3)And what exactly?
4)This' about programing, isn't it :/

[danse]

Dear friend, look how many sections have this forum, now try to imagine around 100-150 threads a day that broke the rules, that would make around 700-980 useless threads per week, etc, etc.

1) That question cannot be asked correctly usually older versions are more stable but less fancy
3) There is something like fruit, but u cannot use it at any level any reset. Fruit can be used only if you have spare extra points ( wich are gained per certain amount of levels ) so basically yes it would work until reset, cause if you reset part of your stats would stay is actually eating your spare extra points so no more of using fruit.
4) No exacly about programing, if i remember well in the database there is an hour when member connects, if you wish to count all time user spent on your server you would need edit a store procedure wich is called wz_disconnect or something like that, so this procedure would simply add an hour recently played to hours total stored in another table, but it has few issues, first wz_disconnect is not called when game server crashes or user client crashes or he quits the game other way than just menu->exit game.

Hopefully my answer is more satysfing this time.

[aq1]

Yeah, 10x. About 3 and 4 I understand, but I realy am hopping about certain answer about 1). I thought that here is someone, who has a lot of expirience with servers creation and knows about unfixed bugs. If someone confirm that there is a fix for every single bug that can occure in S3 Ep1 (or even 2) Server, I will turn the web upside down to find them, but if there isn't I will be wasting my time for nothing... that's why I'm asking here, hopping that here are some realy know-his-shit-guys ....

[danse]

So far i can assure you that there are no 100 % bugless S3 server files, at least i guess they are not in public. They have bugs or have somethings disabled to ommit bugs. As for fixes, maybe they will come maybe not, that's development nothing is one hundred percent sure.

[aq1]

Ok, here is another question.
Can I make a server with the older version and just put in there some of S3 items and specialy the level requiring last set (i know I can edin the look and the stats of any other set, but can I want to got a Level Requirment) and 3lvl Wings? And to make this without having the S3 bugs?

[danse]

Well for that question to be answered you need to wait till someone with more recent knowledge will answer as i'm veteran, as for the coding side of this putting a new items is a quite hard thing to do. All you could do is just replacing the items and editing it requirements, but it wouldn work for lvl3 wings.

So i suggest waiting here for reply and doing your own research meanwhile somewhere in guides & releases section.

[aq1]

Ok, I'll wait for an answer about that, but I have one final question before I start with the experiments. I never have seriosly played on 1.00+ server so I don't know all about them. There was one version, where the Blade Knight(or it was the MG) didn't have the best wepon becouse of the DL. In one other the MG had one skill and with this skill he did an unimaginable KS. One friend told me that the "Ignore opp def" doesn't work on some of the versions... so I'll ask again - which is the most new 100%bugless and balanced version... or I have to go in other section and make a threat with the question "Which is the Best version of the game?" ... so I can get enough opinion and choose the version for myself....

[danse]

i think you can search thru threads in main Mu Online forum i guess there are few threads discussin the most stable version,
"...cause of DL" that's 99 version i guess.
"...KS skill" don't remember the name, generally the skill was about that it spread the skill around the map far far away, and i was also in 99 or something around it, i have no idea if it's in newer version.

[aq1]

No1 says anything... if I can't add new Item in older version, can I completly erase the bug things in newer versions?