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I would think the emulator/source code is perfectly legal, it is the graphics which would be considered illegal as that was created by Gravity and property of Gravity. I think this is why what I like to call "cookie-cutter" MMO's are so common now-and-days, because you can basically rip an idea, make it look pretty, and it's legal, or in layman's terms, rip the source code or emulate another game then make your own graphics and such, so technically it is a new game yet at the same time, not. Anyway from the laws: r/eAthena could also argue that the source/project is for educational purposes, as many people learn about the programming language it is written in when working with it. From: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ So even if Gravity wanted to, they could not stop the emulators. As for the private servers themselves, it would be a waste of time, money, and employees to go after any small fries, but very few servers get large enough to bother with and most die out on their own over time, only the official servers stay up forever. On top of that, regardless of what the anti-community thinks, it is not like private servers are stealing business from the official Ragnarok Online. If Gravity shut down the emulators and all the private servers in the world, it would not make me play the official RO, and I'm sure that is true for the rest of the community. I would rather -insert something crazy here- than play the official RO, I'm sorry Gravity, it is that bad. So yeah, don't worry, it is most likely one of those fanboys trying to get some satisfaction from shutting down a private server, something so much more entertaining and satisfying than the official server they play on. Trolololo. Or could also be someone just trying to get in some lulz and practice in hacking or whatever it takes to send emails like those. Those emails are as legit as the ones from Mr. Saudi Arabia who wants to deposit a large sum of money into my bank account are.

If that is a general question (not just for clydelion) I think it depends on who you talk to, lol. To me RO in general is boring, developing a server is entertaining but not as entertaining as the certain servers which make RO entertaining. Haven't found one which has impressed me yet though. BUT WHO COULD FORGET YOU PINKY?! Welcome back. :>

RO Empire has been around forever and I found one on there. Here are some other ones though they aren't iRO open beta, Austrailia RO open beta, kRO open beta or alpha? Will keep looking but those are probably the oldest you'll find...

Pfff small and insignificant. D< Blasphemy! Welcome~

Ooohh, the Netherlands is awesome, and I want to know how to pronounce your name now. >: Anyway yesh, rAthena is a good tool to practice and experiment with (sounds kinky >_>), I've learned quite a bit about scripting but haven't touched source yet though I plan to, eventually. Cool that you own a server, don't worry about it not being too popular, everyone starts out small. But nice to meet you!

Okay Ralph, welcome. Hope your learning is going well~

RAWR. The rainbows and large text made me do it. >: Too full of epic. But welcome!

I mostly just use item_bonus and script_commands, I never noticed the pccommand_list before but that will be helpful to me in the future. But I do usually look at the wiki, I haven't used those files in forever, but mostly just because I haven't been adding new items or experimenting with scripting, but they are useful for offline use. When I was adding custom items to my item_db it was without internet and with those text files to help me. I agree they also need to be updated. OH, WAIT, HTML FILES. No, I say get rid of them, if you are a newbie you should have internet access and thus can learn all you want here on the forums or the wiki. They are too basic and I could only see them being used by those who are really new. Even if there was more added to them I think the wiki or text files/documentation would be more helpful... If it is decided to keep them then I recommend renaming the folder to something else like "For Beginners" so people will look at them. In my newbie days I didn't even know what a "readme" was (yes, even though it says readme, it was just a file) and even now don't read many unless I am new to whatever I am doing, now I know what a readme is so I can use them, lol.

True, in that case I'd have someone temporarily take over management who can personally contact me, but still make no changes, lol. I would probably also take them for a test run before entrusting them with such a position. Get some training and experience in there.

This is a known problem with 2012 clients, use a 2011 client with 2011 lubs (remember to delete your old lua files folder but save your accessoryid and accname lua's by moving them to another folder outside of the lua folder temporarily, then place them back in and don't forget the comma on the last entry).

Huh, you are on hairstyle 10 and it is looking for a palette from hairstyle 26... Ignore missing palette error will work too but if you get any more errors you might want to go back to a 2011 client... With my 2011 client on hairstyle 10 I can go past 33 on palettes: And this is what hairstyle 26 looks like for me: You also might want to check and make sure you have palette 26_33 like so:

I tried both 5.0.2 and 5.1.4 and no errors, just no .lub produced and no visible custom headgears.

If you crash with alt+qing that makes me think you are missing files. Have you tried right clicking the item to bring up the description? Does that make you crash too? If so that means you are missing the collection and item image located in RO\data exture\À¯ÀúÀÎÅÍÆäÀ̽º it isn't uncommon for some items, especially old ones, to not have collection and item images. However I am having problems seeing equips when they are equipped as well and have not found a solution, besides of course getting an old 2011 client with a diffteam diff and the old K3dt diffpatcher and just old everything. :\ Using 2011-04-27 and it works, shows equips, but you'll have to get older lubs for it to work, change your mmo.h and all that good stuff.

Oh okay. And you'd think but everything looks fine to me. :\ I figured if it was something in the lua files I'd error before even getting in-game too.

Already tried that. But if people can see their equips with the classnum being at the proper value then I guess that isn't the issue. >:

Sooo any idea on how to compile the produced iteminfo.lua into a .lub? So far renaming it seems to have sorta worked, but I'm curious as to if converting it to a lub would fix my not seeing equips issue. luac does not want to convert it and my client refuses to read it as a .lua, even though I have read lua before lub diffed into it, it seems to only want to read the lua's inside LuaFiles514 and not in the system folder.

Could also be related to iteminfo.lua, had this problem when upgrading to a newer client. Use this tool, remember to put your item_db in your data folder as well before using it: http://rathena.org/b...-itemconverter/ and remember iteminfo.lua goes in RO/System. You might also have to rename it to iteminfo.lub, I have not been able to compile it into a lub. Oh and if you get any errors about a problem on a certain line, that is probably because of the slashes \\ and quotes ", you have to remove them both and any line that has them, so remove them and move on to the next line it errors on...

Definitely prefer working alone. Have never seen servers survive with developers and whatnot, graphic designers are fine though. As to why: lack of communication (server owner hires employees due to being busy, and then is too busy to communicate with employees, creates a backlog, lots of frustration, and ragequits), then I have a specific way of doing things and am not easily impressed by others unless they are freelancers on commission, some good work out of them. Incredibly picky though. 8D Can never go wrong with graphics though, development is another story however. Same with hosting.

Should look like this: ACCESSORY_CRITURA_HAT = 872, ACCESSORY_MAGICAL_BOOSTER = 873, ACCESSORY_NEW_BLACK_VALKYRIE_HELM = 874 } and make sure you have a } at the end of each file. So your accname should look like: [ACCESSORY_IDs.ACCESSORY_NEW_BLACK_VALKYRIE_HELM] = "_NEW_BLACK_VALKYRIE_HELM", }

'Hokay the only fix I have found is going to an older 2011 client with old 2011 lubs and whatnot, then I got an error in which the client looked for web buttons but just stuck some dummy files (copied and renamed other .bmp buttons to the files it was looking for) in so it would stop complaining about that and so far relatively functional. 2012 clients are completely messed up with no fix, even though I swear at one time they worked.

That was actually the problem, I never use underscores. Adding them works too though. Should look like this: [ACCESSORY_IDs.ACCESSORY_WOLF_EARS] = "Wolf_Ears",