Questions about Private server

Hello there!
I am new to this while Private server thing and if Possible I would like someone to explain to me (not in too much detail) .First of all I know that files come bugged and etc, but that's what leads me to ask some questions

There are only a few things I would like to know:

1. As files come bugged I would like to know how people fix it. Not how to fix certain bugs, but What they do to fix it. If they just change things in the SQL server files or if they change the code itself. And if they do fix it by changing the server files, Do they fix it just by playing around with numbers? or actually fixing errors etc.

2.If there are any safe server 4.0 files I would like to know where I can find them :p (Doesn't matter if they are bugged)

I am hoping someone could help a newbie like me :D

Thanks, Ruffles

if can help you there are no 4.0 server files, all are 3.5 server files with some edit to support 4.0+ graphic things but are not the original 4.0.

All the new things are all written by epvp users and not tested with a great population server (think only servers like p4story or eden can have more than 400 user online) and probably are not very good if the server got more than 100 users online at same time.

You can take all the public stuff on this board, there is a post with all the links with all the fixes.

Bump.
I would still like to know if the bugs are fixed by just "playing around with numbers" in the files or if some of them have to be changed in the code.

Thanks in Advance! Also Thanks xXDudeXx ! I appreciate it :D

It is very rarely that debugging leads to only variables (numbers) changed. Most of the time you have to understand the code that causes the bug and refactor it.

hi ruffles,
theres two things you have to differenciate from:

1. source code

2. server files (+ DB)

the former is the sourcecode, and basically "how" you get your files. you cant fix things with just the files, you need to edit (duh) the source by yourself, and thats not easily done because everything is tied together. as far as i know the first and last source code that has been leaked is version 3.5 and you can do basically everything to it if you know how.

the latter are the server files, those are what you get when you compile the sourcecode.
or well, when you download it somehwere. its usually server files already configured to the previous owner, and ofcourse pretty bugged. there are some workarounds with changing the database tables and stuff, but its not a real fix.. if you really want to change stuff, you need the source for clients and servers, so you can start working from there.

hope this helped!

buddy