The problem I ran into with hosting a meeting-point server in MapTools is the server can't be up some amount of time between 6 hours and 24. After that, you just can't connect to it, no matter what you do. So, you'd have to have people hand-off the server, or reboot it, continuously.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jose Sarmiento Lardizabal <j_silver_1984@...> wrote:
I told the RPTools staff about our discussion, and they said they're
working on it. Basically, they don't have the resources to host a
central meeting point in MapTool right now, since they're too busy
working on getting a stable 1.3 release.
In the meantime, I'm trying to organize some volunteers to host
something similar to the OpenRPG Blackstar server on their free time.
Oh, by the way... There are video tutorials on the website that
answer a lot of questions from new players. Those videos should help
you with your problems.
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I told the RPTools staff about our discussion, and they said they're working on it. Basically, they don't have the resources to host a central meeting point...
The problem I ran into with hosting a meeting-point server in MapTools is the server can't be up some amount of time between 6 hours and 24. After that, you...
Im sorry, You have the wrong email address. This is not "Brian" Whoever that is. ________________________________ From: Michael Meunier <dagent145@...> ...
Please note that the e-mail address of "onlinegameday" is a multi-user group. As such, when someone wants to address a specific person, in addition to the...
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