I'm gonna just start jotting down info/stuff I find as I play and hack away at and read the code and such. Since I moved to VMWare, I've had zero issues with the server nor the game, it seems to be working perfectly fine in terms of mechanics/progression, as I've put a few hours in and run into no problems. This isn't to say you shouldn't try using VirtualBox first though before going through the process of converting the image that Kang Jinsu provided, it just so happens that VMWare works infinitely better on my machine.
If you wanna translate stuff, it's super easy. Relevant files are the website's res/config/keystring.json.string and configJson.json.string files primarily. Don't be fooled by the zlib-compressed versions or the gz, these are unused. Just edit the string JSON file and you're good to go. Fair warning though, configJson is an absolute chonker and most beautifiers are gonna choke REALLY hard trying to format it initially, let alone text editors trying to read it with smooth scrolling and the like. I recommend using Visual Studio or another more powerful IDE to actually work with the file after you run it through an initial formatting process.
If you wanna send stuff to yourself, go into the backend at IP:8002, admin/admin for user/pass, go to 邮件系统 > 邮件 (Mail System basically) and click the 2nd button to create a mail (first button just queries the mail DB for mail info). As for the mail properties, you can run those through DeepL or something, but what's important is the 邮件类型 dropdown, you want it set to the second option, which lets you specify items, currencies, etc to send. Note that if you have friends playing with you or whatever, this is a global mail, so everyone will receive it. As far as I can find thus far, you can't send an individual user a mail. For item IDs, reference the ID list provided in the archive.
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to store information, including my notes, changes I make to config files/code, and other such things. This will be updated in real time. Started doing basic translations and I had a go at the unit names too, but goddamn some of them were rough, native speaker telling me how poop I did and correcting me is more than welcome lmao. Any edits I do in the client code I will attempt to tag for easy searching later, because it's absolutely Ducking
massive. Thankfully, it's not obfuscated or minified, and all comments are preserved, so it IS possible to work with, you just better know your way around JS because it's a real clusterfuck if you don't. The server side I am less interested in, because it all works fine and doesn't need any real modification since all the configs are exposed. If you run into a JSON that looks encrypted, it's just zlib, I'll provide the source and EXE for a quick and dirty encoder/decoder a little later, as it's super, super easy to do, just not high priority atm. If you DO want to mod the server itself, well, that'll require decompiling and recompiling the JAR files, and I don't actually have any experience with that personally.
Quick edit to say I've written the compression/decompression tool and it works, you can now modify both server and client ends freely without any obstructions anymore. Code is in my working folder along with everything else I've been messing with.
