Hey all. I'm having trouble getting this to work. Can anyone help?
I'm interested in playing this older version of STO so I can see some of the missions that have been removed from the modern game. I have a little itty bit of experience with running (local, solo-only) private servers of vanilla WoW and City of Heroes, but I can't figure this one out for the life of me.
So I followed the instructions in the original post, which seemed simple so I figured it would be a snap.
Step 1 - I run 1_Start_MCP.bat. First I tried the 'big green button' but nothing happens after I click on it. If I click that first and then go to the complex mode, I can see that LogServer is running but everything else is 'Waiting for LogServer" and stays like that forever. So I stopped using the big button and tried with Bafflingly Complex mode.
Step 2 - I get all the services mentioned in the OP running.
Step 3 - The tutorial says that I can launch the client from the MCP, but I can't figure out how. I'm guessing you start the service called 'Client'? When I do that, it says that it's now "Running" but nothing else happens.
Step 4 - So then I tried running 4_start_Client.bat and the Gameclient.exe. This didn't work at first, so I read through the entire thread and found a "Windows 10 Fix" that a helpful person posted. Putting that version of the client in the server folder made it so I could finally start the game client. Hooray!
Step 5 - But then when I try to log in, the account server connection takes forever and eventually times out. It says I can log in locally with any username and a blank password, but that doesn't work. Neither does trying to use a password. Always times out.
Here are some things I've tried:
1. Running the "1_start_MCP.bat" and the "4_start_Client.bat" as Administrator through the right-click menu. This gives me a Windows error that says Windows cannot find "MasterControlProgram.exe" and "Gameclient.exe" - strange, as they're right there in the folder. Running these bat files normally doesn't result in any errors, but I still can't log in through the client.
2. Running MasterControlProgram and GameClient as Administrator directly works, in so far as the programs start, but it makes no difference with actually letting me log in.
3. Towards the later pages of the thread (including in the most recent post), people have posted pictures of modifications to their Windows host file that helped them, so I added those to my host file. Still can't log in.
4. People have also posted a web page that they can access to view account details and other stats on their server - an IP starting with 127.0.0.1. I don't know the specifics but I think that's your own computer's local address. For some reason I can't access it, it just tells me the site can't be reached and it refused to connect. I don't have any firewalls installed or running, including Windows Defender/Firewall.
I don't really know what else to do. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks for reading.