Let's start.
Step 1
Passion
Have excellent passion for developing conquer online private servers. Keep playing conquer online private servers, see what they have and how you can make it better, do not copy the text dialogs or the exact features because it will make you look like leecher. If you really like some features on other server, make a better one with random dialog text, random let's say tournament style and stuff like that. Never leech anything from anyone.
English
Have excellent written and verbal communications(optimal) skills. Because if your english is bad, players will not want to play your server. And with bad English your website will look messy, your npc dialogs will look messy. English writing skills is a must, unless you create server based on other language.
Be able to work with others
If you are a beginner to conquer online private server development, you might be not able to create the server all by yourself, that's why you need to get someone to help you, but you also need to offer him money or special position in your server, if you want him to help you developing the server you have to be nice to him. Even if you're hosting the server alone, you still need to be able to work with others, what I mean by this is you need to tolerate the players, no matter how hard they insult the staff they might have a reason, so do not ban anyone for insulting the staff, chat ban is ok but never ban in game.
Accept Ideas
This is one of the most important part when hosting a server. The other players will always give feedback and suggestions about your server, you need to listen to them no matter who they are, because sometimes players know the server better than you do. Accept ideas, if you like them add them to the server, never ignore feedback or new idea because sometimes it might get you many new players, you will be suprised about this.
No high donations
No overpowered donations, such as 255 level. Never put donations that can increase your level because it's totally unfair for the other players. I can't tell you what not to put but I can tell you what to put. You can put cps donation, mounts donation, gold donation. Oh and you also shouldn't put nobility donation, let the players fight to reach better rank!
Events
Organize events, Easter? Put event to search eggs or similar to that, Christmas? Put trees in tc and organize some santa event or something like that. Players love servers that have active events, you can also increase the cps drop every weekend but do not increase it too much, just like +150 cp plus or something like that. Create an event for every holiday in real life, players love that.
Last part
Act cool. There is a fight in-game? Don't get involved in the fight, never pick sides, do what the person deserves no matter if he's your friend or donator or something else. Also act professionally, make sure you don't show up in twincity or any other popular city often, tell to all your gms to be active in-game but to hide on the sides. Never go to guild war or any tournament with your gm, also don't use your commands to abuse on players. Don't use the /announce command often, it makes the game look bad. Why this? Because if you do what I said you shouldn't, players will think that the gms are more active in the game than the players.
Step 2
Project Manager
Be great project manager. As Project Manager, your job is to protect the server from hackers, give ideas to the developers or develop them by yourself, giving orders, customize the server and much more. You can also get other people, you can't do all by yourself that's okay but you need to know a little bit from everything, a little bit of design, programming, web developing, support and you will be just fine, if you know nothing and get developers they will get bored of you and leave very quick.
Full of ideas
Play video games, conquer online private servers and stuff like that. Check out all the features and try to make your own. Just be full of ideas for your server, if any other server has something, you should make it thousand times better than it.
Website
You can't create server without having website, you can, but how will people download your client, check out the news etc. Get a Web Developer and Designer so he can create you great website, being web developer and/or web designer is much better, you can bring your custom ideas to life(Sometimes it's hard to explain to someone how a website should be made. =P). Note: Never leech websites, never do it if you want your server to look professional. Most of the servers have wow websites or websites from other games, that makes the server so bad trust me. As much as I know, your server depends on the website. Let's say you have greaet server but bad website, players will not believe that you have great server if you have bad website, so impress them with your web design/development skills if you want them to check your server. Most important, use clean english!
Client
Get a client. Your server will not work if you don't have client, you can also customize your client, you can change logo to your own, you can edit in-game text etc. Note: I prefer not to use client edits because most of them destroy the game, add edits only if you feel that they will make the game better.
Source
To make your server work you need a source, where you can edit the in-game text, create npc, edit players etc. You also need to use clean and bugfree source, if your source has lots of bugs players wont even bother playing it. Use trusted source from trusted users not some stranger, most of the sources are full with bugs, and the rest of the sources they're usually clean. Good coders and trusted people on this forum I know:
- Super Aids
- pro4never
- Hybrid
- Myself(I'm not an actual coder but I can help you with anything, atleast I can try. I know a bit from almost everything, game development, game design, game art etc. =P)
I guess that's it for now. If this helped you or if you atleast appreciate it please hit thanks.
You need any help? Do not hesitate to ask in the comments i'll be here to help you, no matter what question I can help you with codes, npcs, design or I can give you some tips.
P.S: I will update this thread as soon as I remember something new!
Cheers,
Psychodelic/Deathmist!
, but try adding screenshots so newbies can see if they're doing it right or they're missing something ^^
