Yows all,

I finished setting up an private WoW - Wrath of the Lich King server
yesterday. The docker are based on the TrinityCore package which is to this
day still being actively maintained. Each pushed update rebuilds the
container.

It has been an long wish to have my own WoW server to play with family and friends. The character data is backed up daily. It could even be exported in case someone wants to transfer or wants to set up their own server.

It is definately unwanted to make it open to the public-- but the BBS scene
is very welcome. I will keep running the server until the end of times :P.

Would any of you be interested in an account? If so let me know and I'll
create an account and send you an link to an preconfigured WoW client.

L8er,
oP!

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Re: World of Warcraft - WotLK
By: opicron to All on Thu Dec 03 2020 09:04 am

Yows all,

I finished setting up an private WoW - Wrath of the Lich King server yesterday. The docker are based on the TrinityCore package which is to this day still being actively maintained. Each pushed update rebuilds the container.

It has been an long wish to have my own WoW server to play with family and friends. The character data is backed up daily. It could even be exported in case someone wants to transfer or wants to set up their own server.

It is definately unwanted to make it open to the public-- but the BBS scene is very welcome. I will keep running the server until the end of times :P.

Would any of you be interested in an account? If so let me know and I'll create an account and send you an link to an preconfigured WoW client.

L8er,
oP!

Just curious. Where are you pirate servermasters sourcing your server software from in order to run pirate servers?

I am genuinely curious.
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I finished setting up an private WoW - Wrath of the Lich King server yesterday. The docker are based on the TrinityCore package which is to this
day still being actively maintained. Each pushed update rebuilds the container.

Are you running any Mods to make it less of a grind? :-)

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Just curious. Where are you pirate servermasters sourcing your server software
from in order to run pirate servers?

I don't know about now days, but back in the day it was on sourceforge.
I'm sure a google search will turn it up.

It used to be called Mangos, before trinity core forked off. The server software isn't like someone stole it from blizzard, it's reverse
engineered and opensource. They're often called emulators.

Whether or not you call it "pirate" I don't know. Given that a) the
server software is compleley built from scratch, and b) we've paid for
the game.. infact the only thing that might be pirate is the database of quests, objects and so on (which was all recreated).

Andrew


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Just curious. Where are you pirate servermasters sourcing your server soft from in order to run pirate servers?

I am genuinely curious.

I have a server running Docker and all my projects are seperate docker containers if that is what you mean. It makes it all a breeze to set up.

oP

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Are you running any Mods to make it less of a grind? :-)

At the moment it is all vanilla. I just got the auction house bot running.

oP!

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Just curious. Where are you pirate servermasters sourcing your server software
from in order to run pirate servers?

I don't know about now days, but back in the day it was on sourceforge. I'm sure a google search will turn it up.

It used to be called Mangos, before trinity core forked off. The server software isn't like someone stole it from blizzard, it's reverse engineered and opensource. They're often called emulators.

Whether or not you call it "pirate" I don't know. Given that a) the
server software is compleley built from scratch, and b) we've paid for
the game.. infact the only thing that might be pirate is the database of quests, objects and so on (which was all recreated).

Ah thats what he meant ;). It is based on TrinityCore which is not an infringement as it is an server emulator. A good one at that ;)

oP

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Re: World of Warcraft - WotLK
By: apam to Arelor on Fri Dec 04 2020 10:11 am

Just curious. Where are you pirate servermasters sourcing your server software
from in order to run pirate servers?

I don't know about now days, but back in the day it was on sourceforge.
I'm sure a google search will turn it up.

It used to be called Mangos, before trinity core forked off. The server software isn't like someone stole it from blizzard, it's reverse
engineered and opensource. They're often called emulators.

Whether or not you call it "pirate" I don't know. Given that a) the
server software is compleley built from scratch, and b) we've paid for
the game.. infact the only thing that might be pirate is the database of quests, objects and so on (which was all recreated).

Andrew

Well if it is a rebuild of the original software I don't think it counts as pirated. Bummer.

The FreeBSD community had a lot of fun back in the day, because some other massive online game got their server binaries leaked for an old version, which was compiled for FreeBSD, and the forums became flooded by n00bs trying to install FreeBSD to run the game. Specifically, an old unsuported version of FreeBSD.

That said I don't think having bought the client software gives you many moral rights to run the server software :-P

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Re: World of Warcraft - WotLK
By: opicron to Arelor on Fri Dec 04 2020 08:58 am

Just curious. Where are you pirate servermasters sourcing your server s from in order to run pirate servers?

I am genuinely curious.

I have a server running Docker and all my projects are seperate docker containers if that is what you mean. It makes it all a breeze to set up.

oP

Oh no, I was not asking that.

The question was where are pirates getting the applications themselves from :-P --
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That said I don't think having bought the client software gives you
many moral
rights to run the server software :-P

It's a server emulator - the same could be said for any emulator, such as
a Commodore 64 emulator, or an Amiga emulator, they're emulating hardware
that you don't own the rights for, so you can play games you do own.

I bought world of warcraft, and every expansion made for it one at a
time. I've sunk well over $1k into that game over the years, that's for
the game, not the server membership fees which is about $16.50 a month.

If you want to call us pirates for playing a game that we paid for,
that's your call, but I don't think it has anything to do with morality.

Andrew


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It used to be called Mangos, before trinity core forked off. The server software isn't like someone stole it from blizzard, it's reverse engineered and opensource. They're often called emulators.

Whether or not you call it "pirate" I don't know. Given that a) the
server software is compleley built from scratch, and b) we've paid for
the game.. infact the only thing that might be pirate is the database of quests, objects and so on (which was all recreated).

Andrew

That is VERY cool, private WoW servers... man, if one had enough friends/people involved that could be a REALLY cool project. I dig it...

Kudos, opicron!



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That is VERY cool, private WoW servers... man, if one had enough friends/p involved that could be a REALLY cool project. I dig it...
Kudos, opicron!

Thanks, I just host the TrinityCore docker ;). The community who spend years getting Mangos and TrinityCore up to this point-- that is impressive.

I am now working to get NPC bots working so we can do an raid with two people only :P. Letting 10 other bots do healing etc.

oP

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Thanks, I just host the TrinityCore docker ;). The community who spend years getting Mangos and TrinityCore up to this point-- that is impressive.

I am now working to get NPC bots working so we can do an raid with two people only :P. Letting 10 other bots do healing etc.

Couldn't you also edit the Enemies to be easier to kill? Take them from like 9 billion hitpoints to only 1 billion? How are the dungeon encounters defined? Are they scripts or something? I'm facinated by the backend, how they write the quests and stuff. I assume it's in some sort of scripting language....

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Couldn't you also edit the Enemies to be easier to kill? Take them from l billion hitpoints to only 1 billion? How are the dungeon encounters defin re they scripts or something? I'm facinated by the backend, how they writ quests and stuff. I assume it's in some sort of scripting language....

All that information is in the database as unitID stats vunarabilities etc
etc. But I am not changing anything-- I believe the vanilla feeling needs to
be intact.

Also I am writing an Mystic program in which users can create/change/view
their own accounts (multiple accounts possible).

oP!

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I finished setting up an private WoW - Wrath of the Lich King server yesterday. The docker are based on the TrinityCore package which is t day still being actively maintained. Each pushed update rebuilds the container.

Are you running any Mods to make it less of a grind? :-)

Better late then never, yes I spend the last days getting some addons going. Now I am running an FireMage with external PQRotation script which I wrote.

PQR is a Lua script macro rotate bot-- now my fighting is a lot less clicky
and grindy. It uses mana/heal potions when required and alternates fire
spells to better stack damage.

Ran two instances with friends (and three bots) yesterday. Which was an
honest blast! The addons are all available on the board btw.

oP

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I am now working to get NPC bots working so we can do an raid with tw people only :P. Letting 10 other bots do healing etc.

Couldn't you also edit the Enemies to be easier to kill? Take them from l billion hitpoints to only 1 billion? How are the dungeon encounters defin re they scripts or something? I'm facinated by the backend, how they writ quests and stuff. I assume it's in some sort of scripting language....

Yeah, it should be possible but I want to keep the WoTLK defaults. It has to
be some challenge to finish an instance. Else no sense of accomplishment.

oP!

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Yeah, it should be possible but I want to keep the WoTLK defaults. It has to be some challenge to finish an instance. Else no sense of accomplishment.

After all the hours I spent in the Core, it would be very thereputic for myself and my Hunter to one-shot Golemagg. :-)

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After all the hours I spent in the Core, it would be very thereputic for m and my Hunter to one-shot Golemagg. :-)

hahaah :P -- btw I now added level control through the bbs wow control panel. Everybody can adjust their character lvls as they please. Stop the grind.

oP!

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