Hello,

I have several questions regarding shard status here on website using internal POL webserver:

Do I need to have this on standard port (80), or I can use any?
Can I use https (via reverse proxy for example...)?
From which IP comes query (I would like to limit access to this ip only)?
Does ...

0.97 pol never crashed during save when HDD run out of space. Latest version crashes.

Is there somewhere documentation, how this sharding works technically? I am in game alone, players are in different shard. What is happening technicaly? Does it run on different thread? Does this second shard have own instances of all NPCs? What happens during world save? Etc....Thanks.

PS: I used ...

Thanks, it works! I was also thinking to put server into separate vlan, this probably should help too, but it requires redesign of whole network NAT reflection didnt work.

I have server on local network (POL 97), connecting with classic UO. I can easily authorize, but it hangs on "logging in to shard". When I take this PC and connect from internet (through NAT), everything works. Any ideas? Thanks!

We are waiting on the Orion developers to help us in determining a way to send a query to any client logging in which the Orion client would use to identify itself. If we can do that then we would only send the feature disable packet to the Orion client and thus solve our problem.


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AFAIK current largest supported map size is 7168 x 4096. I am just curious, how hard would be to increase this limit? Obviously it would require significant changes on client, but my question is from the server point of view. Would it require some serious refactoring of server systems, or ...

I've honestly considered switching over to RunUO for the adaptability, but our shard is just way too old and customized to even dream of doing it. I think a better solution would be to keep our existing scripts, but also have an open source pol.

I know exactly what do you mean, we have same ...

The newest release is one big surprise. There was much more changes, than is written in change.log, so since release, we are still discovering, how much things stopped working and why.
For exaxmple yesterday we were fixing some problem and to 4 o'clock in the morning trying to discover, why our in ...

No reaction of developers at all?

You can have some firewalls/packet filters to filter some more specific kinds of DOS attacks (usually using some "bugs" in protocol design). But if attacker is just flooding and has enough of bandtwich, there is NOTHING, you can do. Even if you are discarding such packets, they are blocking your ...

2austin: Well, i am not really surprised by such reactions. You have no real counter-aruguments, so you just start flaming, telling half-truth and replying totaly out of context. It is so big problem to keep at least some level of argue?

Most funny thing is, that in one post you are saying one ...

POL community is larger than you think but most of people doesn't contribute anything or they don't speak english. Second thing, it's better to learn and write in C language than some unusable eScript. In my opinion closed source it's not the main reason of lack of people in community.

Well ...

OldnGrey wrote:If a cave made out of statics was under a mountain, you could not drop an item on the statics floor, it would go onto the top of the mountain way above you.

Yes i meant this one. In core-chanes is no note of reparing this.

MontuZ wrote: Demo, you want open source, go to RunUO.

I want. But i wrote reasons why i cant. When we started to run shard years ago, POL was best choice. But now the situation is different. It is pitty, that pol wasnt able to stay at lead. But of course few people cannot compete with hundreds.

Anyone using brain AI in larger scale? According to same tests, we have suspictions, that this AI is many times slower then "normal" AI. Theory is that it is because of slow handling of sending events by POL (brain AI sends events much more). We will probably make some other tests to test this teory ...

New people... can I ask from where?

People from shard community, for which pol can became interesting option if going open?
People who are now starting new shards (yes, i know at least about 3 new projects in my country)?
Drag some people from run uo comunity?

It is only necessary to make pol ...

Demo, how long have you been around POL?

5-6years?

I know very well, how run UO developed. From the not usable emulator to NO1 in half, maybe even less time then any other emulator. Ask yourself why?

2sadahar: Well, i will not take away your ilussions, maybe it work well for your shard ...

RunUO status: Currently Active Users: 423 (147 members and 276 guests)

POL status: In total there are 2 users online :: 1 Registered, 0 Hidden and 1 Guest

This doest really look like that closed code attracts people to forum, or holds the community. Such thing can work only if all emulators are ...

Well, cave bug is bug, when you are in cave and trying to put something on the floor. Server thinks, that floor is not that floor made from statics, but ceeling (map0) of that cave and it caused troubles. Solution was to have special server side map, where were caves without ceelings, only statics ...

I am sure, was cabug repaired for newer cores?

Any progress with this?

Currently we cant use higher ids > 1023 (anim2.mul, anim3......). Even with UOFeatures on.
Only chance is to remap theese ids in client data using bcd and that is lots of wasted work (and we are limited too).

From bodyconf.def:

# This file overloads the data loaded from the CD/HD cache system ...

We started with the 096 distro to test the waters - almost no one contributed to it in anyway.

Well, i think this is quite logical. POL was the first emulator, which allowed highly customized shards. I believe, that most of POL shards are so much customized, that something like universal distro ...

Is there ANY reason, why not put POL open source?

If you look for example at run UO, it overrun every emulator project in few years. Now run UO is the best emulator. Few years ago it was not usable at all. Open source development is very fast in theese cases.

You can say ok, go for run UO then ...