.NET ASPX Website

I have started work on a website, it was primarily for my server. but i thought ahh what the hell, ill develop a community release too.

The website will feature.
Active Server Status Checker (ping port of server)
clan manager (aspx custom clan manager made by me)
account manager (also custom aspx scripts)
donation shop (will feature a full shopping basket function)
SOD Ranking Boards (custom sql/aspx script)
Bless Castle Owner (realtime, autoupdates)
online users counter (custom aspx script)
communication with Gzuz Launcher from website (already released, needs update)
working on a feature, if receive a message on website it will notify you if you are ingame. connected by your ID in launcher and id on website.

~~~possibly custom coded forums which will bring your ingame stats to play on forum (clan data/level/bless castle status/sod status)


a preview of the project is available at my web server
http://reaverpt.eu

if any of you are interested please let me know so i know whether or not to go along with making a community release or whether not to bother if no one will like it.


Please not ive only spent an hour or 2 on this website so far. it is in the early stages and still has alot of functions to be added to it and the whole interface to be improved.

Nice work, looks really promising :D

UPDATE: atm im trying to add an auctionhouse ingame. this will also link with website and will be able to view current sales ingame, and if logged in to your account will be able to put bids on items ingame from the website.

I suggest you to improve the design. despite that, it seems to have nice features.

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Originally Posted by gzuz

UPDATE: atm im trying to add an auctionhouse ingame. this will also link with website and will be able to view current sales ingame, and if logged in to your account will be able to put bids on items ingame from the website.

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That sounds awesome TBH. I remember the days before "Personal Shop" was invented, and I truly expected it to be something you could put items into an NPC, or via the website and search items others had put there... not this sitting in town in game doing nothing but hosting sales stuff.

When I first saw auction house in WoW, I broke my keyboard with drool. :lol: This is what Personal Shop should have been in the first place. Good luck with that, and the site in general.

As for the other features, I think many servers would like something, and the only sensible Control Panels seem to be very public. I know many PServers which would like to be able to do these things via browser (tablet / smart phone etc. etc.) and not have to log into an RDC, (remote desktop) but don't want users to have access. The panels that exist seem to have little or no security on them... which is fine for some servers who want you to make a character, set it to level 120 and rank it up before playing... but many don't, and are scared that if it can be done from a web page, hackers will find a way to get to it.

If you can limit access to that for only Staff, or certain IPs, that would also be a massive plus. :D:

This will be secure account management page, all data to this page will be logged as will actions of those connected, i do not need to put the server folders at risk anyway as with ASPX it uses .net which has its own account, the only way someone could cause a problem is if they hacked into the web server and took over the .net account, which is highly unlikely if you know what you are doing. im working thru the dat files atm to find a way to make an online auctionhouse ftm where u can host items from ur inventory or warehouse on the website and sell them there, other users would be able to buy the item online with gamegold linked with their account dat file or use donation coins as manipulating the npcs ingame atm through dll calls is quite difficult, ill keep working at it however, even if it takes a few months it will be a huge feature, so fingers crossed.

my account manager wont offer a level up facility but will feature rankup. I dont beleive that someone should start a game and get to the top for nothing. kinda defeats learning about the game, its economy and meeting players. Which for a game where you interact with other players, trade with other players and buy items from them, well, its just silly.

@Price - i already said that the visual aspect of the website will be re-worked. ive only spent a couple of hours on the website atm and to be honest the visual side of it isnt my biggest concern when creating a tech project. code comes first.

I am thinking, with regargs to the auctionhouse, for data handling, i may only use the dll client side, the rest of the data could be sent via another tool i will code from serverside. This tool will act in the way that ClanSodManager does and process the db calls as it will be too much of a pain to have the client access the db independently. Client could send requests on another port and the server tool could intercept and process them.

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working on a feature, if receive a message on website it will notify you if you are ingame. connected by your ID in launcher and id on website.

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Well, I have to say that this could be more hard than you think. I tried to do that once, a program to sent chat packets to another player, from a C# app. You should consider my experience with PT packets and emulator. I didnt succeeded in that. Even tried to emulate a new client but sending login packets, character selection packets and stuff, and yet no results.

byt, what can I say, good luck =p if you need any info about pt packets just let me know.

ive already got a program to accept pt packets and read encryption with bobs cryption change guide.

I'm not convinced that external program could do much, unless it logs in as an Admin player.

Some form of inter-process communication would be required, be it TCP/IP, Named-Pipe or SQL entry or such. What-ever, the server would have to listen to the pipe, and the program would have to leave messages for the server to process. It does this for logged in clients in any case, so that's the easy method. Emulate a client which logs in, authenticates as Admin user, and makes PMs or server Notifications or WHY.

But you could get the server to spawn a listner thread, listening to messages in your IPC of choice, and directly calling the server packet send routines passing appropriately filled out memory structures. I guess. :\

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Oh! Third method would be if you had a Gateway Proxy for PT. That could, under normal circumstances forward player packets to the actual server, and server packets to the correct player, then it could also listen to your IPC and send extra packets to clients.

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Originally Posted by bobsobol

I'm not convinced that external program could do much, unless it logs in as an Admin player.

Some form of inter-process communication would be required, be it TCP/IP, Named-Pipe or SQL entry or such. What-ever, the server would have to listen to the pipe, and the program would have to leave messages for the server to process. It does this for logged in clients in any case, so that's the easy method. Emulate a client which logs in, authenticates as Admin user, and makes PMs or server Notifications or WHY.

But you could get the server to spawn a listner thread, listening to messages in your IPC of choice, and directly calling the server packet send routines passing appropriately filled out memory structures. I guess. :\

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Oh! Third method would be if you had a Gateway Proxy for PT. That could, under normal circumstances forward player packets to the actual server, and server packets to the correct player, then it could also listen to your IPC and send extra packets to clients.

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Your third method is the best one.
I remember a Sandurr program that make exactly what you are saying, a gateway proxy.

I hope you are really not considering creating a proxy lol

you're a great dreamer btw.

A proxy would increase lag substantially.

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Originally Posted by .Price.

you're a great dreamer btw.

A proxy would increase lag substantially.

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1. It has already been done.
2. Many proxies for other protocols are put in place to reduce lag

Why do you suppose this is "dreaming" and what evidence would you have for the introduction of such "lag"?

I'm not saying you are wrong, simply that you speak authoritatively here, with no corroborating evidence.

I would also add, or remind you, that this Gateway / Proxy does not have to exist at the TCP/IP level, in this case. It could be an API proxy on Winsock library.

I've used one of these to change the "encryption" or "protocol", and while I'm sure it increased the CPU load, I don't think it would impact "lag" until the CPU activity became saturated. I haven't seen a PT server, alone, cause such load on a CPU. Usually, the server processes 2Gig (or 4Gig, if patched) memory scope is the bottleneck.

Likewise, if the Server, or gateway consumes all the available bandwidth, that would introduce lag, but PT is very bandwidth conservative... to the detriment of it's own security. And Security, is the primary reason for creating most Gateways.

I believe it was security concerns which lead to the initial creation of Sandurrs Gateway, Proxy. (I may be wrong)

some extra functions added. server moved to host www.reaverpt.eu

if anyone has any requests for additional features i can code them and add them in as plugin modules. Just let me know.

update: i am now adding a feature to the website so that new players can add a starter pack to their account through the item distributor. This will be a 1 time only use, but i guess with your server you can add lotsa other functions for it too, ie. voting for your server you can have the website give the players account x amount of mana potions or whatever the hell you want really.

dont really have much more than that to update atm, other than the account management section has fully working clan manager now, also has account logs to show you when/from what ip your account logged into game/website from.

There is now an admin page where you can ban users so they cannot login to game and you can view and remove users from ban list on the same page.

donation shop is pretty much completed now and can purchase items from it and receive the items ingame through the item distributor. No admin input for donations is needed, when finished also the website will access the player.dat file and add xp that they purchase from the website.

having problems with auctionhouse, i dont know if that will be included in website due to the fact you will need to have the exact same client + server as im running to do that and alot of you have different custom content.

I can help you with that...You´re using C# or VB?

I work with ASP.NET/C# =D

its okay, its not a big enough project for multiple people to work on tbh, and im currently using it for my server, so i dont really want any unauthorised changes happening in live mode.

i will be making a beta release here in a few days.

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Originally Posted by gzuz

i dont really want any unauthorised changes happening in live mode.

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That's why Open Source project developers all "sync" with a repository.

Especially if you use GIT, each "trusted" developer / team can have their own "fork" and any other team can pull in the bits they want to use from each other into their fork, and leave out the bits they don't want. :wink:

P.S. I've never been able to set one up right, but I've worked on a fork for someone else set up. Gregoo has set up GIT repositories. Maybe you guys should ask him nicely, if your interested. :thumbup:

well, the project is still in too early of a stage for me to think about that my coding is messy as hell cos i originally started it as a personal project for my server. So, i dont really wanna have to help a ton of users correcting errors when i could add the functions happily myself i guess.

UPDATE:

i will be releasing my website for ReaverPT as it was available for my members on my server, i may further update it when i have time but as it stands i do not. Website features a full admin panel (admins must be added in config), online webshop needs to be linked to paypal or some other vendor but will issue items in game (item donation table must be filled)

I will release this later today for all of you, i hope you enjoy it and can work from it....my coding is rather messy >.<

One of the many problems of an "Auction house" is sending by item distributor the item, I never succeded in send an already existed in like @99999 @88888 by that npc, It´s possible do that now? (I dont have servers since 2010).

Did you post it?

Website/Manager - RaGEZONE forums

release at link above