Eternian Like Server

[ravish123]

I'm wondering if anyone would enjoy an Eternion-like server with similar stats, NPC quests etc. I have an old database released from a repack a while back containing a lot of stuff the original had, but it's simply a repack so it's limited. And it being 4.0.6 requires custom patches with amounts in large download files not many people enjoy downloading. So I've moved over a lot of the database to a 4.3.4 core that doesn't require any patches for new items.

Currently, I've moved over items, creature spawns, creatures, vendors, quests. A few items they had had custom visuals and don't display correctly so I'll have to use different armor displays and some of their NPCs were scripted with VIP security checks, gossips, etc which I'll have to fix depending if I will include VIP donation gear. Right now I'm testing out what works and what doesn't and fixing the broken things. Along with the old the database and custom content I'll be adding more content and scripts that will hopefully keep players entertained. The server will be centered around PVE and PVP. PVP balancing currently is pretty good but requires some more work to balance out spells and damage. PVE is going to be revamped in terms of: Locations, Creatures, quests, health, scripts, damage, dungeons.

From what I remember there were quite a few people who enjoyed playing on Eternion and I'm willing to recreate some of that with an extension of more depending if people want it. So I'm posting this to see if anyone would want to see something like this and depending on the amount of people who do want this I'll consider opening up some Beta or Alpha when I have content migrated and working to an extent to see how it goes. If the majority vote falls under the category of "Not Interested" then I'll move away from releasing this as a server and more as a repack type thing as I don't see opening a server no one will enjoy a wise thing to do.

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[ExO]

Moved the section to the World of Warcraft talk buddy.

Anyhow, my personal opinion;

I would be "careful" with making such servers.
If I am not wrong, quite a few people have attempted to make an Eternion-like server in the past, and all have failed because it does not gain enough of attention & population.

Would be unfortunate if the same thing happened in your case, so I'd advice you to keep that in mind, and ensure you have a proper plan, and eventually a back-up plan how you will succeed with it.

 

[ravish123]

Moved the section to the World of Warcraft talk buddy.

Anyhow, my personal opinion;

I would be "careful" with making such servers.
If I am not wrong, quite a few people have attempted to make an Eternion-like server in the past, and all have failed because it does not gain enough of attention & population.

Would be unfortunate if the same thing happened in your case, so I'd advice you to keep that in mind, and ensure you have a proper plan, and eventually a back-up plan how you will succeed with it.

Thanks for moving it, wasn't sure where to post it.

That's the exact reason I've made this thread here, along with posting it on other forums. I wasn't sure if it would be popular or not, but my plan is to not include the Eternion grind it used to be, nor do will I include the attack speed it used to be. From the looks people no longer enjoy that type grind like it used to be back in 2010. My intent is to create a somewhat blizzlike custom server, blizzlike as in blizzlike dungeons and quests to an extent, I was going to strip the current dungeons, npcs, quests, etc but keep the items. My plan is if enough people are interested I'll open up an Alpha/Beta to see how well it goes. Right now I'm just in the process of getting stuff working so if I do plan to release it it won't be for some time unless it's a beta/alpha. And if no one want's this type of server I'm planning on releasing it as a repack so people can enjoy it. Giving something back to the community, which I've been wanting to do for awhile but been waiting for something to release, hopefully people will enjoy a repack if released. Plus this is more of a learning project for me towards programming and other things, so I don't see it as a loss entirely, and hopefully I can pick up a few things while working on it.