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Originally Posted by BlackCitadel
First, I am still newbie on this, what is a source??
Can you put a simple detailed guide showing how to create a private server?
I also noticed a lot Egyptians add new strange monsters and new NPCs with their own messages which they want the NPc to say, they also add new items to shopping mall in their private server, how do they do this??
For example, I see NPC in the middle of the job center, he sells MoonBox,Emerald and Euxenite Ores for CPs, how they do all this??
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Let me see if I can break this down a bit for you (keeping in mind I wanna try to avoid writing like 10 pages here... cause your asking very 'general' questions)
A source simply means the source code to a program... Every program you use on your computer was originally designed using some sort of programming language by a programmer... the code they wrote is called the
'source code' for the program.
When we say a source on epvp we mean the same thing... it's the code that someone has written which allows conquer clients to connect to them and then emulates a server (IE: performs much like tq's servers do in that it allows the clients to connect, send/receive data, see eachother, interact, etc)
There are a number of public sources on this site but for the most part they simply aren't very good 'as is'. If you want to run a good server you will need to learn at the very least some basic level of programming (99 pct of the sources here use the programming language C#).
If you are not willing to put in the effort to learn some programming then I'd like to STRONGLY warn you away from private servers right now... Without putting in effort you really won't get anywhere (you should not expect to download something, run it and have a good server, they take time, work and knowledge to do right).
That being said there are tons of great guides around this site if you'd care to search through the guide/release section.
Sadly fang removed his post on here listing all the public sources... I hope no one will get too angry with me for linking to his blog though which still contains it.
Annnddd some links on learning C#
Hybrid's lovely guides
Tane's links
Me with links on packets/proxies/bots (less applicable but useful knowledge)
C# for Dummies e-book
C# Primer
If you search there are a TON more resources on here.
Well... there's my few paragraphs for the day ahaha