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Even though over half of this thread talks about this being an April Fools' joke, even though April Fools' is in the TITLE of this thread, and even though the words "April Fools" are in a HEADING in this first post, there is still a fairly large group of people who still believe this is real. If you fall into this category, know now: this is not real. It is a joke. You should definitely not write a ticket to Ankama about it. They've already gotten over 40 in the past two days.
If you're not familiar with what April Fools' day is, it's a holiday observed by most of the world's civilized nations on April 1st every year, where it's fully acceptable -- even encouraged -- to play pranks and get people to believe things that aren't true, for fun. And so, next year, we'll do something equally crazy as this. Preemptively, you shouldn't send tickets to Ankama about that one either.
------------What follows is the original April Fools' post------------
Private Imps Village Dofus Server Is Online$@#&!!!!
Whew. I gotta calm down a little before I type this, or ya'll won't be able to even read it :D
After over a year of work, my dream is finally real. It's everything the huge blue letters say it is. A private server. Just for us. You log in with your Imps account info. It's working right now, running on the very same server hosting this website. This Dofus server is OURS, programmed from SCRATCH, and holy bajeezus guys, I can't tell you how much of a relief it is to finally be at the point where I can announce it :D. I could cry :'-)
But enough of all that. Let's talk about features. Because seriously, what's the point in a private server if we're not going to mess with it? :D
- 5x experience!
- 2x drop rates
- Far, far, far less lag than even the American server
- All crafting professions start at level 50
- Each incarnam quest gives you two levels :D (Sorry, I tried getting all new characters to just start at level 20, but it confused the hell out of the client.. boo hiss. More about why I can't modify the client below)
- Royal Gobball has a 2% chance of dropping the ENTIRE Royal Gob set to everyone in your party :D :D :D :D (Assuming this goes over well, I'll do the same thing at around 1% or .5% for prespics and treechnids and stuff
) - The Royal Tofu ... ... is totally worth a shitload more now :D. lol, I'm not telling what happens :D
- COMPLETELY FREE TO PLAY FOR REGISTERED FORUM MEMBERS
So before you start pounding me with questions.. let me answer them :D
Isn't this illegal!?!??!
NO. :D If I had stolen the server code from Ankama, it would have been. But I programmed my own game server from scratch, and it just *cough* happens *cough* to work with their Dofus client ;-). If there's any French law that makes that illegal.. well, French law doesn't apply to the US of A, and that's where I am
When can I connect!?!?
I just got this up and running like 45 minutes before this post. There's a huge, huge potential for us to blow our bandwidth here, so right now we're just testing. I've given each of the forum mods and a few people on IRC access to our game server, and I'm keeping a very close eye on the numbers as we play. I took today off from work for this, so dammit, this better work out
Assuming the average transfer rates stay at what I'm projecting them to be for our forum, we shouldn't have any problem. Expect a full release tonight :DHow does it work?! Are you releasing a modified client!?
NO. I haven't modified the client in any way. Doing that is illegal. Which sucks -- because that's the one thing holding me back from doing some seriously insane stuff in this game. What I *have* done is come up with a script for Mac and Linux (The Windows one still needs some work, according to the mods.. but don't worry, I'll have a bug-free version by the time I'm ready to go public today
) that modifies your network settings. What happens is, you run the Dofus client, and when it tries to connect to the server, your computer reroutes the connection to a dedicated IP on the Imps server instead -- the client has no idea that what it's connecting to isn't the official server!Can I still play on the official server once I install this?
YES! Just run the script again, it will undo the changes, and the Dofus client will connect to the official server again!
What happens when April fools updates the client?
Well.. I'm not sure. There's a really really good chance that the new client won't work with our server, so at first, you'll probably want to keep an old copy of the client on your computer. BUT, assuming it's not an Earth-shattering update, I should be able to program all the changes into our server within a few days. And if Ankama releases a test client, our server may be ready for the official update at the same time theirs is
Keep checking back here -- I've encouraged the testers to report how the new server's doing for them, so if everything's A-ok, I'm throwing one hell of an in-game party tonight :D
. It's pretty rockin' <3
Posted 01 April 2008 - 06:03 AM
then it could be imps own version of trying of new builds kinda server. Should be more fun if ppl can try out all kind of weired builds...may be increase the drop rates (or just add them if possible ??) ..
