masterserver discussion:How hard was it to find out how to..

[Imperial]

This topic is to debate about User Made Masterservers and was the knowledge available before Nochanc discovered how to.

Now, Nochanc, is of the opinion, that such knowledge wasn't availble beforehand, until he found out how to.. and that JimBowen along with Xixron was the first to make it public..

However, if you take other unreal games, you can easily adjust it, to have deusex hosting it.

A full tutorial was first made, from what I can see, in 2002, may have been 2003, I don't know, I will find it later, but these dates are considerably close to the EpicGames release date of unreal in 1999, and thus the running of epicgames Masterservers.
A game known as Wheel of time, had a masterserver.ini with it.

Now a complete newbie may be a bit lost with all this, but nevertheless, with a bit of investigation, it is possible to host one.

If you knew that sdk contained ucc.exe, is this common knowledge?
Plenty of games nowadays, release sdks after the games.

prior knowledge in this field is needed, but when you have it, surely, it is not 1337 know how, on how to host one.

One dxer knew this, as I have mentioned, in the years of 2002/2003.

[Dae]

It's a nice conclusion and i have no idea what we all should discuss.

[Imperial]

something came up in npf, if you type ucc help masterserver, it gives you the neccesary command, that being ucc masterserver, the only thing that is missing now is cd\deusex\system, or something like that, which is common sense, really, seeing as it needs to know where the ms.ini is to access it.

However, it is pointless arguing with NC as everything is propaganda to him.

He says even if I find the post of the dxer giving a ms tutorial, that the dates would be forged.. woah!

[Imperial]

Success!!!


http://www.runegame.com/vbf/showthread.php?t=19782

I only saw one post, not only has he given ucc.exe in that thread( I think anyway) but also someone mentioned something about the target file, tellling the person interested in making an ms, on what commands to use, only one not mentioned is ucc masterserver, which can be obtained by ucc help masterserver

I conclude that this information was in fact, publically available in 2002, with the only adjustment needed being gamename

[VodunLoas]

I have the simple masterserver setup info and MasterServer.ini. Got it from somewhere, I think Moop.

[Imperial]

ucc masterserver works better though

Also, it is essential you have sdk, or ucc.exe, otherwise it aint gonna work