There's apparently no TomeNet server running guide/section, so it's extraordinarly difficult and only possible (sometimes still difficult) for computer programmers/scientists. There should be at least basic/introductory text how to run/manage a server successfully/safely (configure & compile, set screen shown on joining, start & maintain/update, logging, etc.) and keep players happy (watching for and updating/validating accounts, etc., which accedit seems broken). Some things are pretty unclear in tomenet.cfg and slash_ad.hlp, which seems there's no way to access in-game as administrator wizard (AW) or dungeon master (DM) (says you type /help but that's still user help). The main broken documentation I found is some of the commands in that, like in the example wish for healing potions, the tval doesn't match the items st_info.txt so this example actually does nothing, but correcting that doesn't make 99 potions like in the example, rather than only one potion... seems number of items is missing from command. The '@' sign apparently still just shows player names, not 'Ind' values. Incidentally I checked much of this with a command-line client on a server on its console port 18349 (and don't know what 18400 is for).
I was a bit disappointed it wasn't stated all my administrator account characters start at character level 99+, when DMs historically play non-player characters (NPCs) of all levels, and now their names apparently can't be deleted/reused which would have to be on an extra account, which is kind of superfluous.
I'm not trying to ask for many issues to be dealt with in one issue report, if you'd rather I separate these out, but just that they seem to generally because documentation hasn't been completed, and I've barely even begun to find out about how a server works.
I've talked to people who want to run servers (and some whom quit) but they can't without help, because they're not programmers, and even for me, though I managed to edit/compile/start a server again, there are significant difficulties...
There's apparently no TomeNet server running guide/section, so it's extraordinarly difficult and only possible (sometimes still difficult) for computer programmers/scientists. There should be at least basic/introductory text how to run/manage a server successfully/safely (configure & compile, set screen shown on joining, start & maintain/update, logging, etc.) and keep players happy (watching for and updating/validating accounts, etc., which accedit seems broken). Some things are pretty unclear in tomenet.cfg and slash_ad.hlp, which seems there's no way to access in-game as administrator wizard (AW) or dungeon master (DM) (says you type /help but that's still user help). The main broken documentation I found is some of the commands in that, like in the example wish for healing potions, the tval doesn't match the items st_info.txt so this example actually does nothing, but correcting that doesn't make 99 potions like in the example, rather than only one potion... seems number of items is missing from command. The '@' sign apparently still just shows player names, not 'Ind' values. Incidentally I checked much of this with a command-line client on a server on its console port 18349 (and don't know what 18400 is for). I was a bit disappointed it wasn't stated all my administrator account characters start at character level 99+, when DMs historically play non-player characters (NPCs) of all levels, and now their names apparently can't be deleted/reused which would have to be on an extra account, which is kind of superfluous. I'm not trying to ask for many issues to be dealt with in one issue report, if you'd rather I separate these out, but just that they seem to generally because documentation hasn't been completed, and I've barely even begun to find out about how a server works. I've talked to people who want to run servers (and some whom quit) but they can't without help, because they're not programmers, and even for me, though I managed to edit/compile/start a server again, there are significant difficulties...