They continued the works done but organised in teams and started selling their work. So most of the "good" content is not free anymore.
I take my time, which worth money, and put it into a product that is used by other person to generate profit (hundreds/thousands of dollars monthly, for the successful servers).
Now, you tell me, why shouldn't i gain something from that profit that this person is making over my own time? why would i give anything free?
So yes, (almost) nothing is free anymore.
But all of this started at the moment that the private servers started making big money from donations / $ shops.
If you remember the old private servers (frienzmu, muonline.gr, etc) - they used their own files, never shared them, and made a profit from it - the regular mu community always had the most crappy, bugged, and old versions of mu.
Now, the latest (yes, 1:1 version from official kor) season is much more accessible for everyone to get (buy). why? because organized teams which are being paid for what they do, do not lose interest.
You can always code your own files and put all your improvements you want to add there. There are plenty of sources available to start.
About player base i dont know...some ppl like old seasons such as our season3 and others like newer seasons but the real MU players remember the good old days.
We can chat if you wish, i can't rly help you with many infos about server side though, i am more into graphic deaign, 3d modeling and stuff like that. It's the client side.
You can add me on skype sure : abys_l2
l is lower case L.
It really depends on Season you chose, there are good s9 and I think s8 sources which dont require any modificiation in game play, if you want to go above that you will have to choose one and develop the features of new seasons, crack, unpack/patch game clients and do tons of research. After a while you will give up and understand why nobody does it free.Could you suggest a stable source without too much modifications in the gameplay to start with?
I found some options but as I'm new to the community I can't know which files have bugs, modifications, etc.
It really depends on Season you chose, there are good s9 and I think s8 sources which dont require any modificiation in game play, if you want to go above that you will have to choose one and develop the features of new seasons, crack, unpack/patch game clients and do tons of research. After a while you will give up and understand why nobody does it free.
Old good days..When everything was for the glory.RZ was famous for it's content for many years but slowly the new coders/devs generation did not continued the free releases of files for MU.
This is true too, but in other terms it's something that should happen anyway..The old pro coders retired and made room for the new generation. They continued the works done but organised in teams and started selling their work. So most of the "good" content is not free anymore.
And like it or not, it's not a lie.I take my time, which worth money, and put it into a product that is used by other person to generate profit (hundreds/thousands of dollars monthly, for the successful servers).
MU is very old and uses "ancient" methods.
Do you know of any 97d sources available? For someone starting in this community, it can be pretty hard to find them.You can always code your own files and put all your improvements you want to add there. There are plenty of sources available to start.
I don't know any 97d sources and I don't think there were ever full 97d gs source released. But it should not be hard to downgrade season 2 source to 97d .
They do patches directly in GS and/or dll. I don't have 97d version. It's like 15 year old and the playerbase there is pretty close to none. Maybe there are couple of servers that have few nostalgic players. Other than that I don't think there is anything special with the version except high limitations
And what about the "official" 97d build? Is there such a thing?
How people made the patches in the files? Direct in the .exe or through dlls?
I'm looking for any basic release with no fixes or modifications.