Help Creating Shard

[Dreacher]

Im Sorry guys but im a freaking noob at Pol... i dont even know how to start a shard with the downloads in the web site
I click on pol.exe and nohing happens...samething for uoconvert.exe/uotool.exe/pooltool.exe etc etc...

Help?

Can someone please post a tutorial here?
A really basic once please.

[Voicer]

for a start, find a pol that has starthere.bat and batch/ folder, you should run StartHere, it will help you to start and create maps with uoconvert, etc.

[xeon]

Hi Dreacher and welcome

There are many guides, more or less updated, on the Internet on how to build up a new server.
Anyway, the basics steps are these:
- download pol core files from the web site
- download a client and patch it to remove encryption
- modify your pol.cfg and uoclient.cfg config files
- build your world (in other words, convert the files of the client in a format that POL can consume) using uoconvert.bat or a script like that
- start POL
- enjoy

After the initial feeling of confusion, there will be a moment in which the light "switch on". It should take around 1h to do all these things for the first time, without knowing anything of POL.

And posts on the forum if you need help!


Edit: by the way, check out this guide from POL developer Edwards: http://forums.polserver.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3350

[Agata]

- download a client and patch it to remove encryption

That's not necessary, you can configure POL to use the client's encryption, or you can use Razor too.