DarkflameServer VS UOX3

LEGO Universe

So…for anyone unaware I was part of a project reviving an OLD MMORPG game from LEGO called Lego Universe. My team and I created a online server for the game to run on and kept the server IP private as per LEGO’s agreement with the original team who recreated and restored the game client. They DID however allow the team to RELEASE the code for the server so other people could start their own servers & play with their own friends. Well one thing lead to another and these “mini” bubbles of friendgroups started to both find the source code for the server online at: https://github.com/DarkflameUniverse/DarkflameServer, and start their own servers / join other people’s servers.

If you ever get/got your hands on one, just be sure to run a checksum on it to make sure it is safe. They got details on doing this on the Darkflame github in the resources section of the "Setting up the environment" part. (https://github.com/DarkflameUniverse/DarkflameServer).

There are issues on the repo that talk about this problem. One, Two, Three.

Should be a pretty simple issue to post to the repo.

https://github.com/DarkflameUniverse/DarkflameServer Build your own little server with your buds then. :)

it isnt actually https://github.com/DarkflameUniverse/DarkflameServer

Not quite yet but it's almost there. Work in progress if you want to follow along: https://github.com/DarkflameUniverse/DarkflameServer/pull/90

Here's the source code

> As someone who got involved in an open-source version of the Ultima Online server, this is a fun read

Ultima Online emulators were what took small interest for me and blew it up into a career. But for me, it was pre-RunUO: SphereServer (aka GrayServer, I think) and UOX3. C++, with its own scripting engine built in. It wasn't exactly closed or open source. It also got me into Linux: while some emulation servers were run on home PCs, others were run on hosted machines. Debugging often meant the server administrators would give you root access to debug their running server. New Ultima Online releases meant being late for school to try and debug the client code changes to be able to quickly update the server, otherwise no one could log in.

It was incredibly buggy and never, to my knowledge, reached feature parity with the full game. The workarounds individual servers made through the rudimentary scripting language was impressive (many of these hacks were then copied into the core emulation scripts).

For trips down memory lane, these sites are still live -- and being updated? Wow.

https://www.sphereserver.com/

https://www.uox3.org/

If you're interested in trying out an Ultima Online emulator with soul, or if you're looking for a project where you can still make your mark as a contributor of code or scripts, check out the Ultima Offline eXperiment 3 at www.uox3.org, visit our GitHub pages or come hang out with us on Discord!