arcemu or ascent

[florinel_76]

ok .. i know it might sound crazy but ... what is the difference between arcemu and ascent ... ?

and second is .. what is better mangos, arcemu or ascent.?

and third where can somebody find the core for all these 3 servers if eventually i want to chose one and want to compile it ?


i put this question because after "googled" on the internet i barely found info about
the goods and the bads beteween these servers.

please if someboody knows more about this, post here ...it would help me and hopefully other people that might be less accuainted with these private servers.

[Vindicated]

ArcEmu is the "newer" version of Ascent. Ascent however, when modified, can prove more effective than ArcEmu.

I would recommend MaNGOS for a new user. Then ArcEmu. Ascent for the most advanced user (due to the C++ work required with the upkeep).

ArcEmu is going to have the best support out there though (question support and database support) so I'd go with them.

ArcEmu - Welcome to ArcEmu :: The home of the #1 MMORPG Emulator!
Ascent - AspireDev.org - Index page
MaNGOS - http://getmangos.com/community/

If you have any questions just PM me.

[florinel_76]

Thanks for the explanation ... it was very conclusive for me.

I want to ask you more about the ascent arcemu and more about mangos.

first i can say that i started reading about Mangos. that was last week. It wasnt very difficult up to a point. i learned how to get my core files and compile it. i set up mysql and navicat and i did the 3 databases (mangos, realms, characters) and upload the first 3 sql files.

well from here on was my problem beacuase at getmangos.com i didn't get much help in understanding what do i do if i don't have any revision number in db_revision table.

or i understood that i have to go to the sql\update folder and chose from there and upggrade till my revision.

well the thing is there are some forlders like 0.5, 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.10 0.11 and i understand that 0.11 is for 3.0.3 of wow

so what i didnt understand if i have to go to all the folders and start uplodaing sql files. starting from the folder 0.5 till 0.10 (because i want to create a 2.4.3 server) and then upload the sqls left in the folser after these sufolders.

I hope i am not confusing you ...

anyhow, i have set up the files as requested and did some upgrades (probably not all) and then i started the server .. everythin went fine up to here ... but when i tired to connect the client i kept getting stcuk at handshaking and that is it.

i even tried a repack and still got stuck at handshaking so i gave up and decided to go with a diff server.

what i want is basically to start a server from scratch and compiled on my machine and then put a default database and starting to customize it based on how i woould like.

and i would like to get the server that is most stable out of the three.


P.S. : Well i need to have more than 10 posts to be able to send PM ... so i had to put the message here.

[florinel_76]

i try to renew this post as i would like to find out more information from anybody that knows.

thanks