What does it take to run your own server?

[John Adams]

Originally Posted by devn00b

Also used to be a rule, you make somthing like that YOU support it. =P

Precisely why I haven't made it publicly available. My work schedule is far too hectic to be supporting a no-brainer emu repack.

As to your other comment, I agree, but"If you can't set it up, you shouldn't be running it" is a little harsh. This doesn't need to be rocket science, and if someone only plans to run a server localhost, it really should be as simple as possible.

You must have noticed the flood of the "single brain celled MMO player" that WoW-like games has unleashed on the world. More and more players do not care to think for themselves and will either require chronic hand holding, or someone to just do it for them (remember the clown here a while back who offered to take your money to set you up an EQEmu server? yeah.)


@Techguy

"My login dont work and all the post talk about this XML file. Where is that at?"

The whole point of these "repacks" is that they run, 100%, out of the box. Minimal config, and that's usually just to the client to set the Host or shortcut. So theoretically, there will be no "I cannot login" issues (i know that was just one example) if no one knew about the XML and screwed with it. I agree that learning the inner workings of the Emulator are important, but seriously - only important to those of us who care. Many do not. They just want to download it, run it, log in, play, fine'. And Cavedude's server pack does that just fine.

My "repack" was created for 2 purposes. 1) I blow away my machines routinely because of my RL job, so I hate having to reset everything up, and 2) I liked the WoW Repack concept to have site, news, account management, and forums be all inclusive. Granted, no localhost user will ever need all that, but - it's what I do. I love webdev.

Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it.

[uncommon]

Originally Posted by John Adams

I liked the WoW Repack concept to have site, news, account management, and forums be all inclusive. Granted, no localhost user will ever need all that, but - it's what I do. I love webdev.

Yeah i liked that kind of concept too, seeing something like that with eqemu would be cool but i can see why it's not happening, as others said, it's best to set-up everything yourself just so you learn a bit how all this work and at least have you will have a clue of what to do when you run into a problem instead of just coming to the boards to make another omfgit'snotworkingwtf thread..

[sfisque]

on the repack concept, i'd say its a good idea, if it were packaged as a "try it out and see if you like it" kind of product. make it "shrink wrap" for a mini-login solo box setup, with the clearly stated, "this is not directly supported, try it out and see if you like it".

then if they want to go the nine-yards for a lan/public server, we tell them to RTFM kplzthx!!111one... heh heh.

== sfisque

[techguy84]

Actually, Windows having binaries vs Linux not has nothing to do with a learning curve. There's 1 Windows. There's a bajillion *NIX. So on this point, I disagree.

What I meant was that there was several different variations of a person computer set up. Some may have a boat load of firewalls, some may have Mysql 4.0 and not 5, some may be running on dial-up versus some that are on VPN's. Can your program work around these issues. I am all for a nice server pack as that would make downloading simpler, but I know that I tried cavedudes pack and I failed 4-5 times out and that 5th time was when I was using a wiki guide in conjunction so I had a greater understanding of what was going on behind the scenes.

[John Adams]

Originally Posted by sfisque

on the repack concept, i'd say its a good idea, if it were packaged as a "try it out and see if you like it" kind of product. make it "shrink wrap" for a mini-login solo box setup, with the clearly stated, "this is not directly supported, try it out and see if you like it".

then if they want to go the nine-yards for a lan/public server, we tell them to RTFM kplzthx!!111one... heh heh.

== sfisque

That is precisely what I have - minus the web interface. I might post a link after this hellish project at work is completed in a few weeks. Or, someone else can take the reigns and do it.

My idea was to actually make a "template" out of it, where you can drop in your own database, quests, and etc... and put your own name on it, pack it up, and be famous.

[Jonathan5]

I like where this is going.