zoneservers, gateservers and towerevent

1) I have only what you might call a "feeling" of what a zoneserver is (and im not referring to the "zoneserver" server). Gateservers, well I dunno. Perhaps some1 knows how they work. or at least have a better clue than me.

2) my exact problem is im trying to setup the towerevent. so far I managed to get in using zoneserver zero ... in the mapinfo files, but I wasnt able to see 1 mob to kill, even when the countdown timer went to zero. In the srvinfo.ini I have it set to 4. if I set the mapinfo to 4, i get stuck at the loading screen. setting it to other than 0 or 4 leaves me unable to enter (doesnt try to load at all).

Another point is the battleserver itself. leaked files has 2 battleservers. one named as battleserver and the other as battleservernew. im using the battleserver because the "new" doesnt load at all. it states an error in the ini file, no log and no other f. clue at all to tell me whats wrong. Besides, the "battleserver" dir works with the arena, so I guess I should keep trying with that one.

any ideas?

on my server i have the exactly same situation. i use battleserver too (not battleservernew) and arena works. towerevent works but there r no mobs also maybe is just a pk event?

negative, legendary told me exactly how its works, and there should be mobs there once the countdown timer starts

which doesnt mean it cant be a pk event among other things

Yup tower event has many mobs in there, which you need to clear within the time limit or else you will be kicked out ^^

leroylim,Show me if you can.:2gunsfiring_v1:

bumping this, any clue please ? I dont want a solution, just the theory of how it works =P

i want to know how to get mobs into the towerevent as well :)
regarding the battleserver: better use battleserver(new) as the older (202) battleserver tends to disconnect itself after a while making players get stuck if try to enter the disconnected battleserver (arena)

its the same thing, but battleserver works with the .exe file from battleservernew. perhaps both dirs are the almost the same, I got the arena working using this trick. The relevant point is: if arena is working, towevent should work also.

I will repeat just in case I wasnt clear. So far I managed to get in the tower by messing with the config files but no mobs in there and I knew I was doing the wrong thing, because I was using the same gateserver for the rest of the world, and my bet is that the gateserver and server ID are connected in order to make it work.

If I want to make my server fully non-operative, all I have to do is to mess with those variables arround, and thats the easy part. The hard part is put them back to work, and takes a lot of tries, not less than 10 mins each for me.

Perhaps akaruz will bring some light into this issue, since he promised to look into it.

Cheer, I'm waiting for solution too. And I will very happy if some one have share for EP4, EP5.

So the tower event is the same as Blood Castle in Mu ?

something alike yes, but not exactly =P

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[root@rudy ZoneAgent]# cat ZoneAgent.ini
[STARTUP]
APPNAME=ZONEAGENT
#Server ID(0)
SERVERID=0
#Agent ID (0-3)
AGENTID=0
#Zone Agent IP
IP=192.168.1.202
PORT=3300

[ZONESERVER]
#Zone Count (0-3)
#Zone Count (0-3)
COUNT=3

#Account Server Info
ID0=255
IP0=192.168.1.202
PORT0=5589

#Zone Server Info
ID1=0
IP1=127.0.0.1
PORT1=6689
#Info 2
ID2=1
IP2=127.0.0.1
PORT2=6999

#ID3=2
#IP3=210.64.51.47
#PORT3=6689

#ID4=3
#IP4=210.64.51.49
#PORT4=6999

#ID5=4
#IP5=210.64.51.49
#PORT5=6699

[LOGINSERVER]
#Login Server Info
IP=127.0.0.1
[root@rudy ZoneAgent]#

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havent tested yet, this is something I have noticed yesterday @ night. But seems like I have something quite wrong here.
Ids 2,3,4 should be pointing at localhost, is that right? Perhaps thats the last thing needeed to enable towerevent and gmita (I have said I have made many things by trial and error, dont blame me for this ok =P, I would like to have some more knowlegde before trying again).

I think I should draw a map of each program with theirs tcp connections.

well, theres more about this zoneagent.ini, I have the wrong ports numbers for servers id > 1, I think I know who I can blame for it (this is file is almost unmodified), but the last thing I want to call him/her to this forum.

(feeling a bit alone and confused)

I was told that gmita needs to be activated, but if the npc doesnt respond means something needs to be activated at server side also.

come on folks, I'm asking for CLUES (the THEORY), not for a solution to my specific problem. Some1 must have come across to this problem and must know how they work.

also: (related?) it would be interesting to know how to setup several servers (ie: if I must have several mainservers, accservers and zoneservers or which one of them, when I start up the client and log in, I want to have two servers instead of one).

hey rudy, abt the towerevent..dunno if u got it working or not...i guess its a prob with ur files..there ought to be 70 files...and a portalnpc.ini....the initial server packages didnt happen to have all 70..thats why it used to hang..!! try the later ones..!! they do have..i have no idea where they got them from..!!

sorry to revived back old post but any progress on tower, ill try to make the tower works, if i get any result or some info, ill post.....

part of the configuration is like enabling gmita. and part of the story are the related files needed.

this thread was intended to discuss the towerevent as a side effect of the architecture of the server. This is old story to me anyway, since then most part of the nuts and bolts of the server became is clear to me after all the experiments I have done.

As for the tower, I know i have some files missing, but I dont care about the tower, at least for a while.

I did post a lil info about the towerevent sometime in the past. Zaugola have a look at that post and see if it helps you out in anyway..!!

ok, tq guys, will take a look at it...

guys....you can find out that there is a diffrence in monster-spawn file.

look at the monster-spawn file of tower and other custom map.

U guys need a patch something like make monsters visible in tower map.

Oh toxic welcome back!

Well I thought of using the client files to fix the server side files though. Not sure if it will work.

finally toxic3 came back !!!
i read a lot of ur post regarding tower issue, but unfortunately no luck in making that tower work.....

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Originally Posted by toxic3

guys....you can find out that there is a diffrence in monster-spawn file.

look at the monster-spawn file of tower and other custom map.

U guys need a patch something like make monsters visible in tower map.

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Ah! Finally we meet..!! Wanted to ask you some stuff..!! Just lemme know where I could contact you..!!

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Originally Posted by toxic3

guys....you can find out that there is a diffrence in monster-spawn file.

look at the monster-spawn file of tower and other custom map.

U guys need a patch something like make monsters visible in tower map.

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so wat u mean is, there is no other way to make that tower works unless we create that file ourself or somebody willing to share it (if only if they have...)?

if that is the situation... then ..... arrggghhhhh...... (cant say it anymore)

Bah..! The solution to tower is pretty simple..

The portal 0 file is missing in most of them. Get that file from someone who has it and define the teleport locations for that portal 0 in your portal index and BINGO..

You are in..!!

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Originally Posted by iNs@nE

Bah..! The solution to tower is pretty simple..

The portal 0 file is missing in most of them. Get that file from someone who has it and define the teleport locations for that portal 0 in your portal index and BINGO..

You are in..!!

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ooo.... so i am missing that kind a file, btw guys, if u kind enough would u please post the file/s, i would really appreciate it.. cos i search in the forum for many times n havent found it (others have same prob with me i.e cant teleport into the tower)

but from most of my reading n asking, there is a rise of new prob. upon teleporting into the tower, there are no mobs is spawning inside it, till the timer is finished...as toxic 3 quote :-

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guys....you can find out that there is a diffrence in monster-spawn file.

look at the monster-spawn file of tower and other custom map.

U guys need a patch something like make monsters visible in tower map.

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go to here "a3server\Zoneserver\ZoneData\map\"
and you can find "*.n_ndt" <--- this is the mob-spawn file.

91.n_ndt for example, there is "07 00 13 29 00 00 02 01" in the first line.

07 means mob_id
13 means Xposition
29 means Yposition
02 means roaming mob
01 means tower's floor number (01 is first floor, 02 is second floor)

if u edit 01 to 00 , you can see mobs even if u didn't edit your client.
but it'll be not actozlike...

What you are trying to explain is implement the same creeps as 1 on the ground floor and hence deprive the ones in 1st floor.
Instead he could just add in few extra bytes defining the ground floor with any creep he wishes..!! That'd make it much better..!!

But yeah, your right. It will be least Actoz-Like...!!