Private Servers in General

[Whit3Wolf]

Okay guys i always wondered what is needed to build a Privat Server or to Edit your online gaming world.

I came up with the idea to build a privat server for ffXIV because i wanted to explore places you are currently not able to go to and i wanted to play around with the world as such.
First i started to look around the Character Models and wondered how i could change them.... but yeah the first problem was that i did not know how the files are formated so i could not open them and so on...

Thats why i want to ask you guys if you could lead me to any tutorials or give me a short explanation on what is needed normally to build up a privat server for a online game like FFXIV .
(i thought it has to be quite equal to WoW privat servers thats why i ask here )

thanks.

Whit3Wolf

[Remus3]

Final Fantasy and WoW are extremely different.
long story short, the emulator code writers way back when needed basically 3 things. only 1 is available through datamining- object lists, shit in the world you interact with. the major second part was some dork in packaging left debug on (or so i heard for all i know it's lies but it got the point across), what was provided was the table structures and further insight into how the server to player worked. thus slowly they took the time.. ripped open WoW client files and mashed them together with the info they got for the servers til something worked.

coincidences, time, tears, headaches, migraines, marriages lost, children killed, and even a small island nation was nuked before something viable came out.
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best chance = *cough* FF14 private server - Google Search *cough*
looks like the island got nuked. find some forums, google up mehbe how to build; or ask the forum people yourself.






*nothing i said is remotely but possibly and or plausibly distinctly true, salt... take a grain and understand the pain.

[stoneharry]

Final Fantasy and WoW are extremely different.
long story short, the emulator code writers way back when needed basically 3 things. only 1 is available through datamining- object lists, shit in the world you interact with. the major second part was some dork in packaging left debug on (or so i heard for all i know it's lies but it got the point across), what was provided was the table structures and further insight into how the server to player worked. thus slowly they took the time.. ripped open WoW client files and mashed them together with the info they got for the servers til something worked.

coincidences, time, tears, headaches, migraines, marriages lost, children killed, and even a small island nation was nuked before something viable came out.
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best chance = *cough* FF14 private server - Google Search *cough*
looks like the island got nuked. find some forums, google up mehbe how to build; or ask the forum people yourself.






*nothing i said is remotely but possibly and or plausibly distinctly true, salt... take a grain and understand the pain.

Can't comprehend anything you just said. /tired

Anyway, it's possible to import your own models etc and make a FF based server, but it would require previous knowledge of how to program and such, and will take a *** long time, that isn't really feasible, to make it accurate and with all content.

Take a look at the model editing section.