HTOTM: FUSION
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New player. Mixed feelings.
I checked out Toribash when it was pay-to-play so I thought it was interesting but not worth the scratch.

Now its free and I'm having a blast. Everything seems wonderful. Its not the best piece of software ever written, but I can't really ask for much more than this game's mere existence.

There is one extremely offsetting hangup in the entire discourse of this game: No private servers.

Not allowing me and my friend to set up a training dojo where just him and I can practice our openers, and fighting style in general, is I don't know a ridiculously peeving restriction to have! I read on the forums that there used to be private servers too! When the game was pay-to-play! If anyone, specifically the creators of this game can explain to me why, now that the game is /FREE/ you're forcing me to reverse engineer your server's protocol just so I can play with a few friends on a server exactly with the settings I like, well then the only wrong thing with this entire game would be out of my mind.

Cheers, this really is a great game, good work all around.
ldlework
yes i can agree with you on this one, but i think that they just took private servers out because of the toricredies system they have now, i mean if you have a private server you can just set it to were you win in like 100 frames. and that just would be far to other people. along with the belt system, that would do the same thing for gettin your belt up....
OG of TB
A man of few words
But I'm sure it's occurred to the mods that they can do private servers outside of the toricredit market. I'm also curious why they took private servers out.
Originally Posted by topherclay View Post
But I'm sure it's occurred to the mods that they can do private servers outside of the toricredit market. I'm also curious why they took private servers out.

yes that true, but they would probably have to re-write some code and make some changes to thing and it would just be too time consuming for them... but only hampa and his team know lol
OG of TB
A man of few words
Originally Posted by ldlework View Post
I checked out Toribash when it was pay-to-play so I thought it was interesting but not worth the scratch.

Now its free and I'm having a blast. Everything seems wonderful. Its not the best piece of software ever written, but I can't really ask for much more than this game's mere existence.

There is one extremely offsetting hangup in the entire discourse of this game: No private servers.

Not allowing me and my friend to set up a training dojo where just him and I can practice our openers, and fighting style in general, is I don't know a ridiculously peeving restriction to have! I read on the forums that there used to be private servers too! When the game was pay-to-play! If anyone, specifically the creators of this game can explain to me why, now that the game is /FREE/ you're forcing me to reverse engineer your server's protocol just so I can play with a few friends on a server exactly with the settings I like, well then the only wrong thing with this entire game would be out of my mind.

Cheers, this really is a great game, good work all around.
ldlework


I'm sure that if you succeed in making a clan, or join a clan, and get the password for it, they would allow you to do it.
Lots of rewritten code or something for TB 3. Also, I don't imagine, if your skilled enough with networking, it should be too difficult to build your own homebrew server. But I'm not sure that would be quite allowed unless Nabi comes out and says 'yeah, we'll give private servers back'.
Q = QUAKER OATS
Three rules of Q - 1. Qegola and Quarantine both start with Q. 2. There is no U in Qegola. 3. Qegola is you new god.

So a man walks into a bar with a monkey. I forgot the rest of the joke but your mom is a whore.
I have a feelingt that one of the reasons is that toribash was made free....and also that it requires a lot more coding to get it to work, where in previous versions, they only needed to do small changes.....
<Shlimby> lol, no Ad, just stop seeing those melons
<ADTerminal> Sure
<Shlimby> and dont take them into ur bed at night
<ADTerminal> But it's where I keep them warm
Okay first off, telling me that taking out functionality, specifically ToriCredit from a private server build is too time consuming is a joke. If you can't delete code and do a few debugging sessions in a night then.....

Secondly, I'm more than capable of investigating the possibility of a homebrew private server. I've reverse engineered many multiplayer games and contributed to two major projects duplicating servers. Its a job of patience, and unless they're already designing/implementing measures against this, its not too much of a techinical one. And if they are, wtf mates, just release a private server.
No offense but you didn't pay for this, any particular reason you feel you can demand this? I see no toribooster purchase, you expect Nabi to work their asses off for free just so this would happen? If you wanted private servers that bad, you should've bought this when they were still around.


That aside, you can purchase a private server under the following conditions: A, it will serve an (official) clan, B, you must pay 50,000 Toricredits for it (the same as 50$, not that hard to get with a booster nor a clan)


Also you can't say what's simple and what isn't. Disabling toricredits from a server would require rewiring belts, ranking, Qi, users, toricredit gain, transfers, and the Tori-Bot, to name a few.


So in conclusion you can buy a private server if you're in an official clan and have 50,000 toricredits. Reverse engineering anything is illegal without the company's permission btw :P
Last edited by Ragdollmaster; Feb 23, 2008 at 12:19 AM.
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Originally Posted by ldlework View Post
Okay first off, telling me that taking out functionality, specifically ToriCredit from a private server build is too time consuming is a joke. If you can't delete code and do a few debugging sessions in a night then.....

Secondly, I'm more than capable of investigating the possibility of a homebrew private server. I've reverse engineered many multiplayer games and contributed to two major projects duplicating servers. Its a job of patience, and unless they're already designing/implementing measures against this, its not too much of a techinical one. And if they are, wtf mates, just release a private server.

To come in and say you're building a private server is fine and all, we don't really care. We play on the game settings given, and if you're respected enough, you'll be able to make your own anyway.

However, demanding that the guys at Nabi make something because YOU want it, and because 'its probably piss easy' is not gonna get you very far. Nabi most likely recalled the idea of a private server for other reasons, and its their own damn choice if they release a new build.

Now stop being so arrogant and learn more about the game and community before you start making such stupid requests in such a stupid fashion.
Q = QUAKER OATS
Three rules of Q - 1. Qegola and Quarantine both start with Q. 2. There is no U in Qegola. 3. Qegola is you new god.

So a man walks into a bar with a monkey. I forgot the rest of the joke but your mom is a whore.