I have a pretty good pool of players. I just have a crap server (which should be remedied in the near future). I've also had problems with tribes being retarded and crashing due to memory leaks in some script and also .cs files that are WAY too big. I can kind of relate to this guy because when I first started trying to put a server together nobody would help me and I got all the same critisizm that this guy is getting....everyone said the same things like...OMG, you're trying to steal PCRPG and F-you Sinister and all that stuff. I was just looking for an outlet to express myself and I'm glad that I made some friends in PCRPG because Corona eventually gave me his version of RPG. Since I was new to the RPG game and had played Particles server for over 2 years, that was the only thing that I knew about RPG, so I made a mistake and pretty much made a copy of his server (along with his rules as well). Big mistake. Alot of people looked down on our server as a result of this, so I immediately took all of particles zones out of my server and replaced them, then I wrote my own set of rules and established my server as it's own entity rather than some PCRPG knockoff. The server is over a year old now and continues to be a great "alternative" to PCRPG.
Here's some advice Serg. Get a basic server started and strap yourself in for the long haul. You are going to have to spend night and day in it to promote it because people dont want to play in an empty server, they want to play in a server where there's interaction. Try to do something unique because that will draw in players. DONT go whoring around to other rpg servers trying to recruit players. Learn the admin commands by heart. Get a forum and learn how to moderate it. If you have a server that starts to show up all the time in the server list, then people will start to notice you and may come in to check it out. Dont be discouraged by hackers because they eventually tire of their own games. You will need to learn to ban them based on their IP's. Here are a few links that will help you get started:
This page has a few different mods
http://www.sinbot.net/mods.html
Admin commands
http://www.sinbot.net/webrpg/admincommands.txt
Free Forums
http://www.forumer.com
Good luck!
It would be different if he asked for help like you did Sinister. The difference in you and him, you were a part and still are a part of the community. This guy shows up out of the blue and expects things to be just handed to him and advertises his sever in the forums. To me he is not really serious about trying to make a server he just wants people to hand him everything. You know as well as I do it will not work. It takes a lot of hard work to make a server successful, and I do not think this guys is going to make it. People are going to think his server is a joke. Wait til Shorty or Peach finds his server. I give it a week.
No disrespect sergiekun but there are a lot of sights out there that you can learn from. Just use a search engine, and if you want to make your server work, be original.
That is my opinion. Not that it means that much.
