cherbert

Hadley's Hope 1961, 3165

Do you have an updated link? The dropbox link is not working anymore.

No idea what you are on about? Steam can't possibly have any solution for this.

My server 'Alador' is hosted on Hardware I have had up and running for over 3 years. I also have automated backups in place. It won't be going anywhere. I also will never ask for donations as I can finance my servers myself. I think during this honeymoon period lots of servers will spring up and lots will die. Once time passes the more trusting servers in it for the long term will remain while others will slowly disappear.

Is that reliable? Have you tested your backups? I am concerned that just copying the files while they are locked and in-use by the server would corrupt the copies.

Seriously? Firstly.. Javascript is not outdated. Its pretty much the major scripting language on the web right now. Secondly, because clearly you are confused, Javascript IS NOT JAVA.

I have done this but this obviously doesn't backup the .map files. These too are locked. There must have been an official tool for doing efficient regular backups to the main Wurm Online servers. Maybe they can make it available to us.

Has anyone got a reliable server backup solution? I have tried BitTorrentSync but it won't sync certain files from my host that are locked. Is there a reliable way to automate the regular backup of the world while its running?

Yes I know how to do all that. I am a Software Developer by trade and have been a developer for over 20 years. I work with lots of developers and even Graphic Designers. All of them have some knowledge of networking. If I had a developer come to my company and say they didn't know what DHCP was I wouldn't hire them. IP addresses, DHCP, routing.. its all basic stuff of how the internet works. How can you possibly claim to be a .NET developer and throw around terminology like Ajax, .net and Content Types but you don't know what DHCP is?!? I'm sorry but that is just very strange to me. But like I said before.. lets assume you don't. It would be in your best interest to start learning. It might help further your career and complement the skills you already have and give you a greater overall knowledge of your chosen field.

If you have no idea what DHCP is and if you consider changing your IP to be a hack then all your grandiose claims of being a developer appear to me to be false. What chance of converting Wurm to Unity have you got if you claim to not even know what DHCP is? You go on about your knowledge of netstat quite a bit over here and on Steam forums but you don't know what DHCP is? I kind of see what you are getting at in that the game launcher should really be a seamless experience for those who want a simple single player game. But.. I really don't think its that difficult to fire up a server. And if you have some issue whereby your primary IP address has changed then its not that difficult to change it to a local static IP and is far from being considered a hack. Plenty of gamers spend vast amounts of time playing around with dedicated servers and messing with their IP's. It should be simple elementary stuff for someone of your background. But I suspect you aren't being completely honest about that. I don't see why you fear loosing stuff so much. Stop being so stubborn and learn a little bit about your problem rather than waiting for the single launch solution you seek, because it isn't coming. That would mean a fundamental change to the entire codebase of Wurm. No matter how simple they make the launcher it will ALWAYS rely on a local server and you will ALWAYS require some minimal knowledge of DHCP and static/dynamic IP addressing. If your machine has Norton Security or McAfee Security then thats just going to break everything. Those horrible Firewall programs will block your internal networking in Windows and you should remove them. Windows does a good enough job of blocking external traffic as will your local router. If you have desires to code games and plugins you will be doing yourself a favor by learning as much as you can about networking. You said before you had a lot of experience with Neverwinter Nights? Well that game required a similar configuration of DHCP and IP address allocation. But maybe you never ran your own server?

You seem to want to spend a lot of time teaching everyone how superior you are to everyone else. I see you posting on Steam forums and here with the same message that you are here to educate everyone in your awesome modding and programming skills yet always in the same breath state how you don't have the time or the inclination. Your posts are very egotistical. Converting Wurm to any other engine is a monumental task even for a large team of people let alone an individual. Besides, an improvement in the rendering engine for Wurm is already underway. Personally I don't feel the graphics are bad at all - I have seen some stunning views in my world. Its the gameplay the matters most. Wurm Online has been in development for years. The current devs are hard at work trying to improve it and Wurm Unlimited has just launched. I just think its a tad disrespectful to jump into the official forums suggesting it could be re-written in Unity. For someone so skilled and constantly going on about netstat I find it astonishing you still can't get a local server working on your machine. Maybe you should focus on getting the game working on your computer before even suggesting a re-write in Unity. As I see your posts all over the place stating the same issues can you please explain in detail why you can't connect to your server? If DHCP is the issue then all you need do is give your server a static local IP like 192.168.1.x or whatever your local range is.

There is also an inconsistency between the settings dialog you get from the launcher to the one that pops up in-game. They are different.

The confusion comes in the fact the out of game settings GUI that you access from the server browser is different to the one that pops up if you select settings from within the game itself. Using the in-game settings dialog you can find the Phobia checkbox under the Advanced Graphics tab!

I think you are right. The only setting I tried was to disable the Valari Map. But it is still available despite me having disabled it.

I added my server and for the most part its been there. But 3 or 4 times now since getting the game I have had it load up and the favorites and history are empty and I am forced to re-add my server back into the favorites. P.S No, I am not renaming my server.