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jguegant | 5 years ago
- The official server (arcturus) is awful to work with code-wise. But all the decently big private servers uses it because at one point we only had the binaries of it and it worked out of the box. When the source started to leak too, it was easier to continue forward with that thing.
- The "simple version" which I am assuming you refer to is os(i)rose. This was the only thing you would get BEFORE the official server got leaked. It had some momentum simply for being there since roughly 2006. It was based on Brett19's code which at the time was a 14-something teenager. The same brett that now works on a fully modern C++ codebase that is decafemu.
- The Modern C++ version which if I remember is worked by few folks from osrose came out something like 2 years ago. Passing 2015, the momentum for the game is close to none. So yes, no one will even spin that codebase.
jguegant|5 years ago
The official server was stolen due to horrible code-practice (C++-wise and software engineering in general), like having plain SQL-injections when creating characters. Worst! This was one of the reason that made the company (TriggerSoft) behind the game go bankrupt. The game was full of security holes back in 2005. This made the game's economy being broken due to few cheaters, created few horrible roll-backs and such. This drained the player's base from the game.
The "simple C++ server" osrose was also plagued by security issues and technical issues. Up to a point that people preferred to patch the official server with dll-injections + assembly rather than trying to make this "simple C++ server" work.