Forum :: Lounge :: Database sharing

why not merge a ton of databases and run every server in way where you can login to all of them?

Well, You would have a problem with being logged into an invalid map or get walled because of your location.

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 we would mainly have to share common maps I suppose or have a few common maps and pub sharing

You would need a duplicate of pubs and maps. Why  would you want database sharing?

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I was just thinking about it over a good bong the other day, like having participating servers share accounts and you could import characters from one game to a pk game, or a game with different add ons. 

It'd be cool to see an auth server for EOSERV, because of the way EO client handles login. With an auth server we could make some kind of a global account for every existing server preventing people from stealing your passwords (FE). Characters would be different for every server because of different pubs, maps, quests, exp rates etc.

Simular to FlyFF?

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I was thinking i would have to organize and put together global maps and pubs from all participating servers and if they wanted items to change for their own server specifically then they edit their own pubs. my main concerns would be admins not following rules, seeing who is online, and chatting across servers and servers that are out of control with exp rates or drops, especially with items being shared across serves.

I would want a system with characters being able to change servers and play with the same login on any participating servers

I never played that. A great example of an auth server is WoW. You create an account that lets you log in to every realm. The process looks like this

• *Player enters the auth data*
  
• Connect to the auth server
• Send the auth data
• Get the realm list from the server
• *Player selects a realm*
• The auth server queries the selected server
• Client connects to the server

thats basically what im getting at of course there would be very limited database access to random other admins but i dont see that being too terrible on anyone I think bans would probably end up being global

I think the only way you can do that is by making a custom client so that when they login they face a sever selection.

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what if it involved say your server hosting idea with a list of all servers on a page. you would need identical password protection codes and a central database with all the tables and basic access given to server admins. you would basically just need eolaunch to pick servers and participating servers could have an ID in the name

Yea that could work. However my service uses separate databases.

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Auth server would handle the global account, realms (servers) would handle the characters for that account.

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That is true.

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