Player versus Player Gaming Network

Next generation of PvPGN — Battle.net ^v1.0 game server emulator.

The project is still in development. Stay tuned and report any bugs!

Source Code changes (since v1.99)

• Lua scripting support (WITH_LUA cmake directive)
• Add display custom icons depends on a user rating, custom output for command /stats; works with Warcraft and Starcraft (see icons.conf) ^{commits 1, 2, 3}
• fix command send flooding ^commit
• fix compile error when pointer size is larger than int ^commit
• fix Warcraft 3 ICON SWITCH hack ^commit
• fix saving sql fields with custom characters in the name ^commit
• fix status.xml output errors and add a new game_id field
• welcome text for Warcraft 3 is moved from the code into a new file bnmotd_w3.txt (example with colored text is included) ^commit
• Feature to use d2s character as a template for a new character in newbie.save; each character class can have it's own template ^issue
• Full localization ^issue
• Ignore flood protection for reserved users and bots ^issue
• Several bug fixes which allow hackers to crash a server and a game client
• Logging for user commands ^issue
• SID_READMEMORY implementation ^issue
• SID_EXTRAWORK implementation ^issue
• Improve SQL storage performance ^issue

New commands

• /save immediately save changes of accounts and clans from the cache to a storage (useful for testing) ^commit
• /icon <add|del|list> icon stash implementation - each user has it's own stash with icons, admin/operator can add icon to user's stash, you can set aliases for icons in config; works with Warcraft and Starcraft ^{commits 1, 2}
• /find <substr of username> search account by part of the name - patch #1526 from berlios ^commit
• /quiz Trivia Quiz Game (implemented in Lua) ^commit
• /language <name> change user language
• /log show/search in user log

Modified commands

• /set exclusion to get/set a password hash and user id; feature to empty key with "null" value; more info in output of the command and examples ^{commits 1, 2}
• /finger more info in the command output - patch #2859 from berlios ^commit
• /games lobby show games in lobby only - patch #3235 from berlios ^commit
• /friends online show online friends only - patch #3236 from berlios ^commit
• /topic feature to set text on a new line ^issue
• /alert <message> like /announce but message box shows instead of a text ^issue
• /rehash <mode> feature to rehash configs separately ^commit

Minor changes

• add original MOTD files with UTF-8 encoding
• add support files v1.2, there are no need to download it separately after install
• add ODBC support for CMake
• add latest versioncheck.conf
• skip_versioncheck, allow_bad_version are enabled by default in bnetd.conf - for easy start
• source code is formatted for better reading
• unused files are removed, only pvpgn source here
• unknown udp packets are logged with enabled debug mode only (it always chokes a log file before) ^commit
• add a file location for all the text files like MOTD (often a server admin doesn't know where a file is located)
• add option ignore-version for programs bnchat and bnstat - patch #3184 from berlios ^commit
• help for all commands is displayed from bnhelp.conf and format changed for better reading, updated more help messages ^issue
• fix error in log when user sends a message with text length of 255 symbols ^commit
• update default tracker servers in config, track is enabled by default ^{issues 1, 2}
• fix Windows version identification ^issue
• reorganize unix install paths, add make uninstall feature ^issue

Build source code

Windows

Use Magic Builder.

Linux

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