Sorry for the delay, the server has been down, hard drive failure.
I more or less expected this to happen (sooner or later) as I was keeping the
'server' on my desktop at home and the HD was an old 80GB drive I
found lying around in a drawer ^^).
So I checked out what it would cost to get a dedicated windows server. turns out it's kind of expensive.
So I checked out if you could run a windows.exe on a "dedicated session" of a server which is cheaper.
Turn out you usually can't and the one I tried (and payed) was like two kids running the server on
their home computer letting mom and dad pay the electricity I guess.
Lasted a whole 2 days before database dropped, next day server went down and eventually their hard drive blew too.
Haven't heard of them since...
OK, so it's expensive because the server runs on windows, so I spent a whole week to port it to Linux which
actually was quite a big hassle but I got it done in the end (really ... Linux is ... Really geek!)
so now I got this little
RPS server up and running for 12€ a month
Atom single core, 20GB disk,
1MB guaranteed disk read/write speed
Doesn't seems much but the server really rarely do disk stuff and if it's not enough I can buy more (4MB/s and 10MB/s).
But best of all, a 100MBits connection from the server to the internet!
It's like the perfect test-server for my game ^^
Well, I also added some monsters and quests (still in French though, sorry).
But it's like, find the 'chef', kill boars to get steaks, pick up wheel-parts, kill wolfs to get skin, find parasol, find hat, kill wasps to get...).
Yeah, I also added (not Really finished) hardware skinning (Thanks to Blindeside!) and it seems to work okay except
a nasty memory leak because of an Irrlicht patch I'm using (mesh copying) but I think I have a workaround for that...
Anyhow, if anyone wants to check out the game here is the link to the inscription and download:
http://91.121.200.170/
(ps. check the gameconfig.xml file if you use one of these *cough* unknown QWERTY keybords .. (you can also skip that and use the directional keys to move around)).