MaNGOS Popularity

[Kalash47]

I'm looking to ask the community here at MMOwned as to how many of you use MaNGOS. Would be great to see what you use MaNGOS for (2.4.3 or WOTLK) and more specifically: why are you on MaNGOS.

ArcEmu/Ascent users can reply too, as to why they aren't on MaNGOS and what would make them switch.

Thanks,
Kalash

[nickelo]

I would never use mangos. End of story.

[johm2]

Mangos is currently the only stable 3.0.2/WoTLK emulator that I know of. Only reason we are using it.

[Greed]

Mangos is currently the only stable 3.0.2/WoTLK emulator that I know of. Only reason we are using it.

Agreed, but i absolutely hate it.

Every release they make, they change there DB order and name, there commands are weird, some make commonsense but most are broken/wtf commands.

Mangos imo isn't for customizing its a blizzlike realm, which more power to it, but most people join private servers for customization.

[CoolManBob]

ehhh... I'll play the devil's advocate here...I've always liked MaNGOS, they have a good dev team imo, sure their software isn't the best, but its damn good imo, also if you don't know how to customize MaNGOS then you musn't be very smart, they have all kinds of different options in their .conf file, besides when its fully open-source you have to power to do whatever you want with WoW

[Moffeman]

I use Mangos because it has alot of working spells etc, the proper animations, no instant-turn in quests like in ascent/arcemu, it's stable, gives alot of more uptime and stable with WotLK

Don't say that mangos doesn't give good uptime, i've played wowunleashed, they use mangos and they had almost a month uptime once.

[treeko11]

Wow, thats crazy, but i prefer Ascent because i usually have a little server running just for me and a few friends, and ascent/arc is better for funservers with little amounts of people IMO

[Dythzer]

MaNGOS is all about developing, they don't care about other emulators and that's probably why they have last so long without splitting into 500 different projects.

My thoughts:
Ascent - Better for GMs (ingame commands) and more help on the forums for beginners

MaNGOS - Better for developers and players who actually PLAY on the server (more working features)

Btw, now when mangos has switched to another version control system called git, developing will be much faster and easier. Everyone can just fork the main repository and do whatever change they want and it will be displayed on this graph. People can just pull whatever modification they want into their own repository and use it for the server. No need to make a patch and post it on the forum, reupload it everytime they update it etc. It's much better than SVN for big projects.


(it's still new to most members and developers so not many people are using it yet)

It's sexy, isn't it? Anyway, that is a bit offtopic but just so you know that mangos isnt using svn anymore. (btw, this is info for non-repack users ofc)

[jokerofsouls]

alot of people are just use to using arcemu and ascent i started using ascent then i tryed mangos and hated it, i think arcemu is more userfriendly to.

[Dythzer]

alot of people are just use to using arcemu and ascent i started using ascent then i tryed mangos and hated it, i think arcemu is more userfriendly to.

Any reason why you hate mangos? Did it hurt you, did it kill your sister? I can't see any reason why to hate it. I can understand if you prefer ascent or arcemu but you can atleast point out the reasons, not just say you hate it.

[Aznex]

Ascent/Arcemu has LUA and its faster.

Mangos is more stable, slower, and has more stuff working. Doesn't have LUA.
also I believe you're not allowed to make a "public" server with Mangos(Yes a few friends is allowed, no not 500)

[The MMO Rolo]

MANGOS is better for devs but ascent is much more easy to set up , i prefer mangos tbh

[obionekanobi123]

mangos is and will be the best ..most stable emu atm most fixed emu and no custom things..lol it can be better customized then ascent ..try some funservers then ya see..
all can be done what acent have ...exaple my server ---and more things added what ascent cant do everand thats totaly right that magos have most things fixed from all emus

[AzolexX]

Why do you hate MaNGOS?
MaNGOS is great emulator atm better than any Ascent based core!

[TheNlghtmare]

Why is everyone saying Mangos is so stable? I used to run Mangos.. crashed every 4-10 hours one month. Very irritating. I liked it though actually. I switched over to ArcEmu and Ascent. User friendly, easy to use, and MUCH more stable. My uptime with the same amount of users playing or more can last up to a week. Beautiful!