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I do think that it's dying. Old players get bored or frustrated with the (lack of) changes, and after 10 years you just don't get as many new players anymore, especially with the lack of technical updates. It's just a matter of time until they decide it's not worth it anymore, but how long that will take, nobody can say. I can't help but find the thought of officials closing interesting though, as it would put Aura into a very curious position^^

I was looking for a name that is somehow related to trees. I came across the "nymphs of the ash tree" in Greek mythology, the Meliae, but I didn't like ae, so I removed the e^^ Incidentally the name Melia is also given to one of the nymphs.

Please refer to the contribution section in Melia's readme file to get an idea of what the community can help with. https://github.com/aura-project/melia#contribution

That's a security mechanism in Windows 8+, you have to unblock the DLLs. See this issue on MabiPale: https://github.com/exectails/MabiPale2/issues/7 But yea, compiling yourself works as well^^

Actually, I guess I forgot to put that somewhere, you can start the client from the folder, if you call it with the parameter "-SERVICE", with a shortcut or a bat. No need to close Skype if you change the port^^

@AlexSophia I've moved your thread to the MabiPale topic, since it's not directly related to Aura, and I'll have to examine the log file of the Debug build, as previously discussed on the chat.

I've updated both PaleTree and Zemyna for i11257, which works with the release client. Happy logging if you can get past the queues!

IPF Browser is a tool to browse the contents of IPFs and extract files from them. I created it as an alternative to IPF Suite because it doesn't support the encrypted IPF files yet and lacks little "quality of life" features I was missing. Download Source Features Reads any IPF files, be it iCBT1, 2, or current kTOS/iTOS ones. (Fast) extraction of single files, all files in one IPF, or an entire client's data. Optional preview for all text, image, and font files. Limits No IPF editing. No 3D preview (yet).

With a login form you mean? Yea, there's no way around that.

I've never played PSO and I have more than enough on my plate as is, I probably won't help some random server emulator project^^ Companies usually aren't "being dicks" on purpose. If they don't bring something over here it's not to disgruntle you, but simply because they don't believe there is profit to be made, or not enough to justify the effort and the costs. They want to make money, if they believed there was money to be made, they'd be all over it.

We aren't, otherwise it would in under our GitHub organization^^ As to what it is, it appears to be a server emulator for PSO2, just like Aura is a server emulator for Mabinogi.

I don't remember such a post on our forum, maybe you're thinking of the GM Island thread on Mabination?

It does require client modding, yes. When we first researched the features file on the old forum, someone did find a feature that partially (de)activated the old GUI, 95b07f6e. I vaguely remember said someone saying that the client crashes on certain windows though, so I don't think that's a viable solution. The features file is fickle anyway... The only alternative I see would be to mod the new GUI, to look like the old one as much as possible. The new UI is largely driven by XML files, in db/layout2, and the images that make up the windows and dialogues can be modified as well. It will probably never look exactly the same though, and it will be a lot of work.

Welcome~ Sure, let it out, as long as you don't insult other users. I do streams from time to time, when I do I usually announce it on the chat, so feel free to lurk there

There's not really a list, I guess the easiest way to see which skills currently work would be to check the skill handlers: https://github.com/aura-project/aura/tree/master/src/ChannelServer/Skills A list telling people what skills there are could fit in various places. The wiki, the guide section, general discussion, I'm not sure where a user would be most likely to check.

Nope, it's just weird. They turned the keyword system into a general use boolean manager, to enable/disable features. It makes sense, to a certain degree. They needed one, the keyword system was there, why not use it? But figuring that out is hell^^

Hm, it's hard to find an example since I don't know your experience with the game. This is one of favorites: You know how when you talk to NPCs, that memo you have? With the keywords (Rumor, etc)? The server tells the client which keywords you have, so the client can display them for you to choose from. So far so logical. But there are also hidden keywords, that devCAT uses for things completely unrelated to NPCs. For example, if you don't have certain keywords, you can't use the Continent Warp. It just doesn't work, no errors, no nothing, the client doesn't react. Took me months to figure that out, and that was a total coincidence >_> Figuring out such quirks can be a real challenge sometimes, and there's no shortage on quirks in Mabi^^

Sorry, it's nothing that specific^^ devCAT is the name of the developer team, we're just talking about the way they do/code things =P I'll have to look them up.

That's exactly the problem in almost all cases where NPCs say that =/ We need someone who can properly translate official Japanese dialogues or come up with custom ones that fit the NPCs and environment. There's no way to get them from NA anymore. Much worse. The personified madness, the cat's creators.

Keep in mind that we basically are on G1^^ Some of those monsters don't even spawn anywhere though, so they would have to be added as well^^ Like White Foxes and Gray Dire Wolves. I agree though, we should add those missing quests and monsters, as optional custom content, that's kinda official.

We got quite a few already, though you can certainly try to find some more: https://github.com/aura-project/aura/blob/master/system/scripts/ai/imp.cs

There's still time for him to run from devCAT's madness =P

Welcome~ Have you programmed before or is just general interest?

Welcome~

No, I'm gonna make Melia public early next month, after I updated it for the new international client.