nightsta69

bleh, i'm sorry, I forgot that this project is bound by too many rules and restrictions on how you can further it, or your education (IE showing how server to server interactions can coincide together, even when using 2 diff databases or show how major companies can integrate several platforms together under a centralized system, to better output a product to a customer.) it can be used for educational purposes. anyways, i'll head back to what I was doing. feel free to delete this thread.

heres my thoughts on how this can go about, to help keep functionality and control within the server owners hands. you have: Login Server A (centrallized login server, hypothetically based from the getmangos devs) and Login server B (server hosted by server owner) have a simple switch in the conf, stating either function as a dedicated login server, or communicate with login server A. client logins into login server A, it does a check to see if that account is banned (forum ban or whatever). if passes, then client is allowed access to realm select. client selects realm and login server A then passes client onto Login server B. then Login server B checks for bans against the server, as normal, and if nothing exsists, then passes client onto realm server. this way server owner still has control over who is banned, and who isn't, keeps his functionality as well, and can choose weather to operate with the centrallized login server. basically the switch within the conf gets checked, and if its told to communicate with login server A, then it will hold onto its check functions until signalled from login server A that a client is being passed on to it, for further confirmation. and if client is banned, then kick him to server select screen, or just to make it more annoying, kick him back to the log in screen. idk if this seems overly complicated or not. but it seems like a viable approach. this way login server A doesn't need mysql access to login server B. login B can do all the database entries, and pass on to mangos. basically it will either keep the login server as a dedicated login server, or a relay between Login server A and realm.

1. yes I heard about the DDoS attacks, only thing I can say about this would be using redundancy. even if 1 server is down, have a backup. can't guarentee anything in life, i'm just looking at making it easier. 3. yes this is something that developers would have to be interested in, to change. but again I believe would be for the greater good, and would bring an alrdy spread out community, just a little bit more together. maybe a change needs to be implimented to have GM status looked into, on the server side, when the client is handed off from the realm server, to the realm. then you can still keep the functionality of banning, and such kept per realm. this is how the eqemu servers are setup as. I know it might seem like a big change, but I see it having its benefits as well. 2. again this i'm not educated in, but will be soon. I will see if I can setup a test or something, just to show if its easy enough to do.

1. the server obviously would need to be hosted by a reliable host, preferably by the mangos team. 2. not sure about this one, as I haven't messed with mangos in quite some time. 3. this can be done using forums accounts here. how it is done over on the eqemu site, is to register your server on thier login forum account, you use your forum account, and register the server name to your account, then it should be just as easy as adding a check with the server name against the account logging in, via an added column in loginserver. and if they match up, then grant GM status, else they are a normal player. additional GMs can be added via php script here, by the server owner. honestly shouldn't be that hard to do. other then number 2 (which again, i'm not educated on this, just thought I would throw the idea into the pool), eqemu has this in place, and it allows for a greater diversity of players amongest the servers, and allows for much more diversity amongest servers for the player base. again, just an idea, that I think is very feasible, and completely viable. think i'll grab the source, and see what I can do. cause now i'm curious lol.

just a curiousity question, has anyone thought about making a consolidated login server, so you can just log in to 1 login server, and others can register thier world server to it. this way people can have a more diverse list of servers to to choose from, instead of scouring over countless sites trying to find a decent server? its how the EQemu is, and works great. more people can see a server, and find out which ones are the popular ones, and which ones are striving to be popular,and its all centralized. just a curiousity thought.

also another thing i'm wanting to know is, take the entire zone of say duskwood. is it possible to have the normal duskwood that everyone does day to day quests with, and also have an instanced version of duskwood for like big raids or anything like that?

spawning isn't the problem i'm having. I just want to actually make an instanced zone. which ever zone I can do, but I need help tryin to figure out how to make it so player A enters portal, and ends up in custom instance B. Player B isn't grouped with Player A, enters portal, and ends up in Custom Instance B1 (his own version of the instance) etc etc

ok but it is possible? where would I look to find out how its done?

is this not the correct forums to be asking about this? I haven't gotten any response from anyone about how this can or cannot be done. a point in the right direction is all i'm askin for, if this can be done. or atleast being told this can't be done, if it isn't possible. thank you

is custom instancing not a viable idea? I would really like to do something like this, just would like a point in the right direction.

yea thats what I initially did for a few quests that let you go in and kill boss mobs there. but when you got 15-20 people tryin to kill the same boss, its counter productive and not very fun. so I wanted to see if it is possible to make a custom instance out of it, or of anything for that matter.

hi I was wondering, is it possible to make custom instances? how hard it would be? and where is the best place to look at to learn how to do this? i'm wanting to turn the crypts under kara into an instance. thanks