Rhomal Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 While classic NWN was in its 5 year development hell I got into the player run Ultima Online servers. For those of you that are not familiar with it, in a nutshell, some peeps reversed engineered the communication protocols from the UO client and the UO master servers. Took that data and created a script based server. Then people, with the UO client data files could run their own UO server. It is a very similar concept to the NWN client/server setup. Thus while waiting for NWN to be released for a year and a half I played and eventually ran my own successful UO server. When NWN finally came out I switched over and got a very popular server off the ground as well. Now as you know I run a high traffic news and community NWN 2 site. With NWN 2 around the corner I was reflecting upon all of this and felt it would be a good article to write about my experiences with such. What I did right, what I did wrong and hopefully for those interested in starting a NWN 2 project to pick up something and help your own project get going. Full article: http://www.nwn2news.net/modules/news/artic...hp?storyid=1160 Admin of World of Darkness Online News News/Community site for the WoD MMORPG http://www.wodonlinenews.net --- Jericho sassed me so I broke into his house and stabbed him to death in his sleep. Problem solved. - J.E. Sawyer --- "I cannot profess to be a theologian; but it seems to me that Christians who believe in a super human Satan have got themselves into a logical impasse with regard to their own religion. For either God can not prevent the mischief of Satan, in which case he is not omnipotent; or else He could do so if he wished, but will not, in which case He is not benevolent. Fortunately, being a pagan witch, I am not called upon to solve this problem." - Doreen Valiente --- Expecting "innovation" from Bioware is like expecting "normality" from Valve -Moatilliatta
Judge Hades Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 (edited) Sounds cool and well written. Edited June 16, 2006 by Judge Hades
Cantousent Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 Sawyer wrote a great little treatise on this a while ago. It might be worth it to read his also. I'll take a look at yours, Rhomal. I've deliberated going in on a module, but I've been leery of it. Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends!
Dark_Raven Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 Looks good. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.
Jora Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 Sawyer wrote a great little treatise on this a while ago. It's here: http://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=9008
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