The Safehouse NWN Game Server

[Aidden]

Aidden bursts into the room, sweating profusely. He looks around at the unruly crowd, and starts to shiver. He slowly reaches behind his back and pulls out a small, leather cylinder. He carefully removes the top and slips out a piece of parchment. Grabbing the top, he rolls open the scroll.

Hear Ye Hear Ye!!
I have an announcement from the Safehouse Staff.
If I can have all of your attentions, I will proceed.

*Clears throat*




The Safehouse NWN game Sever

Overview:

The Safehouse staff, in an attempt to continue its support of the MMORPG and Rogue communities will be providing a Neverwinter Nights gaming environment. We will be providing a general, persistent module that will represent a virtual Safehouse as well as weekly/monthly adventure party Modules. All attempts are being made to provide an enjoyable gaming experience in a fashion you have become accustom to from the Safehouse.

Details:

All access to the Safehouse NWN game servers will be granted to the individual by providing the individual with a server password.

Anyone wishing to participate on the servers must sign up for an account through the Safehouse NWN web server. By requiring this, we can keep tabs on those we have given access to, and keep everyone informed of updates through email and Web site posts.

We will only be allowing server vaulted characters. This means that you must create, and level up your character on the Safehouse Neverwinter Nights server. We will provide enough content to allow you to both advance your characters as well as have fun doing so. We wish to stress that this environment is being designed for fun. If you wish to grief other players, do not even bother applying.

The Server is not a public server. Access is granted as a privilege. If you are found to have given out the access information without permission you risk losing your access along with those you gave the information to. Please respect this rule.

We will be providing a method of Module submission to allow Safehouse members to create and DM their own modules. The details for how this will work are still being ironed out, but there will be a review process. We do this as to guarantee a quality experience for all those participating.

There will be a calendar with scheduled events, and sign up sheets for each. As each encounter is specifically designed for a certain number of people, we must provide restrictions for events. Based on the popularity of individual modules, we will allow extended running to allow all members to participate.

A detailed rules and regulations list will be posted on the Website once it has gone live, for your viewing pleasure.

As we near the opening of the Safehouse NWN Web and Game servers, we look forward to seeing you all there with anticipation.

The Safehouse Staff
Edited by: Aidden at: 7/29/02 12:35:48 pm

[EZ_Tubbins]

Sounds great! Where do I sign up?

Tubbins O'Butter
Slick Cleric/Fighter/Rogue/Monk/Ranger of NWN.

[Aidden]

We should be ready for visitors by end of next week..

Thank you all for being patient.

[EZ_Zulian]

TEASE!!! :P "Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry Pratchett

[EZ_Sneakster Shenanigans]

That sounds awesome! I want in too, I'll keep an eye out for the sign-ups.

One question-Can I have my Safehouse character have the same name as my other local/server character?

[Krimzan]

Oh I am so counted in on this!

Pants optional. Krimzan Anklestabber
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[EZ_Seifyn Lushyfeet]

I can't wait! Seifyn Lushyfeet-56 Redeemed Blackguard!
Balune Kel'Bunfrizznik-23 Mage(love ya Kai :))
Taiyntid Religion-23 Sk
Disqo Inpherno- 32 Monk
Vindica- Are you ebayed son?
Cypriss- No m'am, im yahoo'd!

[Aidden]

Server vaulted characters only.
Names are on a first come first server basis, although is is clear we someone stole someone else name based on their Safehouse persona we will evaluate the situation.

[EZ_Chemistrius]

Any one of you sunsabitches takes my name and I'll get JeffK to use his new hax0r.linux.exe on your Himem.sys.

Don't think I won't do it... <u>Chemistrius Ul'Veldrin***</u>
60th Season Dark Elf Assassin (ret.)
4tth Season Kobold Shadowblade (ret.)It will be a hard life.
One without remorse, without reward, without regret.
A path will be placed before you, the choice is yours alone.
Do what you think you cannot do.
It will be a hard life, but you will find out who you are.

[EZ_Maloscat]

Ohhh, outstanding!

Thank you, Aidden, and everyone else, in advance!

- Malo
Barbarian Bartender
Leader, Raven, Fennin Ro

[braincandy99]

awesome! looking forward to seeing it!

Torch

[Elerion]

*respect*

Expect to see me there quite shortly after the opening.

Humbly yours,
El

[EZ_EsterTheTester]

This ALMOST makes up for Glip missing a party Friday night so he could work on this....

almost /grin Ester The Tester

[Dargesh]

Once again, you guys go above and beyond the call. Looking forward to buying you all a drink one the bar opens.

[EZ_Fiae]

You guys will like this, trust me :)

Aidden is just the man. Fiae Soulmender"The Machine"
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Cerebral Assassin

[Dragynphyre]

Looking forward to this, finally got NWN up and running (early b-day present ) Delissandra Splitshadow - Half-Elven Assassin - "Far Seekers" - The Rathe
So do I feel superior to any druid-twinked post-Kunark still-sucking-at-his-mother's-teat rogue?
You better believe I do!!

[Marbh]

Count me in. Already playing around with trying to look like my rogue.


Things Im curious to see if are possible (feel free to answer anyone)

1. Playing of dice or cards, or other games of chance.
2. Dart/Throwing Knife Board (I think it may be, since I know you have a target in the beginning of the solo game)
3. Admin instigated non lethal fisticuff combat (I.E. a bar brawl).
4. Pickpocketing/Other roguely skill training rooms. Maybe with marked lvls of difficulty and simulated penalties for failing.
5. Floor pit traps. For the areas you shouldnt be, but cant help yourself.

I think this has the potential to be very, very exciting.

Edited by: MARBH at: 7/8/02 11:21:08 pm

[Glip the Gnome]

I've already put 1,2 and 5 in Marbh

[Marbh]

Awesome. I really need to get down and start playing with the editor, but am holding off for my new system this week. I don't wanna get files all over the place, then need to migrate.

[EZ_Rolpho]

Please heh


Rolpho

[EZ_Mildaene]

Yehah! Finally got the game!
Now, all I need is some free time (a rare thing these days) to check the editor and make Mildaene's (poisonous) Roses Garden (if ya need any addition to the SH complex :) ).


Mildaene, White Rose of Kelethin.

[ShadowCross]

I am sure we'll find some nice spot to add that, Mildaene.

[DarthEnder]

Woot!

[EZ_Larlana Lavode]

This is excellent news, and I look forward to joining the rest of you, if you will have me.

&lt;bow>

I have a family member who has spoken about creating a persistent world, such as you are doing with this Safehouse module. If you are interested, I could have him speak with you to possibly share some ideas amongst yourselves.


Larlana Lavode

[EZ_Tweil]

I have a question (stupid mozilla is freaking out now though, space bar is making the page scroll down)....

If I was to make a module called, lets just say for arguments sake, The Druids Grove and made a zone to adhere to your world (a forest that has a portal to the actual grove) how would that work? Would you take me designs in or just do a complete "jump" to my module on my servers? So I would be submitting atleast two zones for you.

I was planning on doing my own complete module but then I realized thats too much work. I would however like to have persistent content up to help further the NWN Community.

Wait, a third question...would other persistent worlds be able to "jump" to my module (zones) in addition to the SH if allowed? The Napping Druid
Tweil Firestorm
Solusek Ro

[Aidden]

the Safehouse Server, as stated in the above post, is not a public server. We will control access to it by providing passwords to those that have registered at the Website.

[ShadowCross]

Mildaene: Correction on my comment on your garden... What I meant was that we'd probably find a good way to link your zone to our module, I wasn't implying that we'd host it by completely including it into our module. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

[DarthEnder]

I dunno, I think a little rooftop garden with poison flowers would be kewl.

[Kroe]

ok so where do we sign up again? I WANNA PLAY!!!!
1 Crow bad news
2 Crows myrth
3 Crows a wedding
4 Crows a birth
5 Crows for riches
6 Crows a thief

[Aidden]

Havent announced it yet...

Hang in there... Almost done..

[EZ_Sykes at Work]

Looking forward to it.
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Guild Leader, Order of the Light
Tunare
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[EZ_Sneakster Shenanigans]

Could you all make the Wall of Blades? For all of our retiring Cellar Rogues of Norrath, DAoC, and NWN? Even if it is just symbolic, a wall of the blades would symbolize all the rogues that have made their way to and through the Safehouse. I think that would be awesome.

[EZ_Mildaene]

Sneakster: Ya mean all 34000 of them?? That would be quite a wall! :)

ShadowCross: lemme make it first (yay! I just found the boulders, walls, plants and butterflies...). It's only gonna be like a room-large or rooftop garden though, not a whole 25000 sq miles park :)



Mildaene, White Rose of Kelethin.

[EZ_Sneakster Shenanigans]

nah, just a few of every piercing weapon...rapiers, daggers, spear, stillettos....maybe 20 in all. Symbolic

[EZ_Flapjax]

Evening all! I've been knee-deep in NWN past three weeks... what is EQ? Thank freaking god... EQ's end-game uber-take-a-boss-number mentality was killing me. I've worked hard for almost a year in my guild on Tarew Marr and concluded that there just is not enough room for four, five, six end-game guilds on that server. It drove me me crazy not being able to take the guild forward because the power-gamer guilds have to kill AL or AoW or whatever mob for the 6th-gzillion time and then I read on their web-sites and see their whining about how crappy the drops were. Absolutely sickening!!! NWN gives us the power to push that @#%$ right out the window... goodbye power-game butt-munchkins!

And some may say how bad NW is... well I'll tell ya what... NWN is "sketchy" at the moment, especially scripting and model building aspects, but that will all change as time moves on. Trust me... this game only limitations is the ambitiousness of its module and content designers.

Anyway for thos who want to help advance NWN as a true online RPG experience check out the following sites...

www.neverwinterconnections.com/

nwn.darkemud.com/~darke/HC/manual.htm

www.reapers.org/nwn/reference/

nwn.lyoness.com/files/scripting.htm

Good luck fellow adventurers!

"We are in our own world now!"

- Quip Quarrel (a.k.a., Horseflesh)

[EZ_Pdrago shadowflight]

*is waiting*

(basically a meaningless bump)

[Kroe]

darnit my search and spot skills must not be high enough yet, I still don't see the new server. :P

[Aidden]

Gyorg is painting all the trim, Glip is sweeping out the alleys, ShadowX is changing the linens....

Smiles everyone, Smiles.......

[Glip the Gnome]

Haha basically we're almost done. We've got a working version of what we want it to be like up. We just need to fix some bugs

(took me a whole day to get everyone's clothes to show up. Man that was annoying )

[EZ_Andurian]

"took me a whole day to get everyone's clothes to show up."

Sure, I believe that was an accident.. you're trying to convert them.

This is great guys, I can hardely wait..I just have to.

[EZ_Tweil]

Quote: (took me a whole day to get everyone's clothes to show up. Man that was annoying

What Glip really means is somehow he had pants and couldnt find a way to get the off =) The Napping Druid
Tweil Firestorm
Solusek Ro

[Kroe]

Glips managed to re-define every article of clothing and armor in the module to exclude pants hasn't he?

[Aidden]

you really don't want to know..

[EZ_Wubbers]

'lo fellas. I just got Neverwinter Nights a few days ago, being absent from rpg's since I took my leave from EQ(how's Nasbin been anyway?) and I really enjoyed the single player, reliving my gnome rogue self. Online was a big dissapointment, with these "custom items" and lvl 20 characters running amuck, it just wasnt any fun - I've been looking for a nice community of players with a private server to join up with. My question: Will I be allowed to join this server in the fun? I really like the prospect of server side only characters, everyone starting off on an equal footing again, and I hope I can join in. Thanks for consideration.

[Glip the Gnome]

Of course you can. Thats the whole reason we're putting it up

[EZ_Phantom Rogue]

&lt;drools>

Cant wait to see what yous have done.

BTW, how you doin password/Restriced Access?

[EZ_Hummerlein]

probably like the root cellar where they use one password and email it to you when you sign up.

[Glip the Gnome]

Something similar.

[EZ_Sugoi]

Err, there gonna be any *Ham Sandwiches*? If so I will run around pantless! Well, maybe shoeless. Perdus The Ham Thief
"I'm attacking the Ham Sandwich!"
Perdus Brewslayer

[EZ_Andurian]

17lb fetid bass?
I'm sure Tigs wouldn't mind

[EZ_TheCountofThree]

Most server vault servers are better then reg ones if you dont want to deal with custom items.

I like making custom items for my assassin geared towards nigh-unkillable people on full pvp servers. Most of them dont use ranged, so I set up a "Gauntlet O Traps" and fire away at them till they chase me through them. Course, if its a server where you can respawn in the same place instantly its moot.

[EZ_Gyorg]

Whew. Long day of World building. Did the largest building (minus maybe the safehouse).

[EZ_Wubbers]

mmm...tempting

[EZ_Jassy of Povar]

bump...

Any news? Jas - 48th Level Healer - Tristan Midgard Jas – 42nd Level Ranger - Gawaine Hibernia

[EZ_ColvinCozener]

If the server is up now, I can't seem to connect to it; so could someone tell me whether its up or not, and if so, how do you connect to it, because I've tried every option.
Colvin - 60 REDEEMED dark elf Assassin - Tarew Marr

[Aidden]

Did you recive the email with the server name ort# and password?

If you did you need to use a direct Connect option fomr multiplayer.

It is not listed in Gamespy

[EZ_ColvinCozener]

yes I did, I've been using direct connect. I've tried LAN connect, I've tried internet connect, I've tried putting :7777 on end of server name, I've tried without :7777. I ALWAYS get server not available.
I know there have been some times when it has been down, but I'm assuming if I can get to the web site, then its up.
Colvin - 60 REDEEMED dark elf Assassin - Tarew Marr

[EZ_Vaclav Romanov]

make sure you put the full URL in....

I was missing an extra word in the URL the first few times I tried to punch it in, got frustrated then reread the email and slapped my forehead...

[EZ_ColvinCozener]

I finally realized it was my firewall. Now I have to figure out which rules is preventing it.

Edit: well, for every denial rule I have, I turned logs on so I could see which one was being hit. I got nothing in the logs file. So now I'm stumped. I'm not going to turn off my firewall so I can play multiplayer NWN.

PS. Its not just Safehouse server thats being affected, I can't connect to any servers in NWN. Any ideas from the firewall people? I'm using Personal Tiny Firewall.


Edit: Sigs just once per topic please. - ShadowCross Edited by: Shadowcross at: 7/29/02 12:10:20 pm

[Aidden]

Default port for connecting is 5120..

of course the Safehouse is on a different port..

The problem is the first port is used to connect, but there are an additional 200 that could be used..

So open UDP ports from 5120 to 5320 for regular, and open the Safehouse ports from the port you use for connecting + 200 more..

Make sure you are opening UDP and not TCP..

[Lisboa]

Just had a thought Mods, death is pretty rough and sudden. Some modules are set up so when you hit 0 hp, you count down to -10 hp and then you're dead. Since nearly everyone is a rogue, no one can rez the dead, so it'd make more sense to have the -10 hp=death rule.

[Aidden]

I have been toying with a bleeding script ( what you described)

I just added the request to the list...

But just so you know, not everyone is a rogue on the server..



Edited by: Aidden at: 7/29/02 12:36:14 pm

[EZ_BD Nightfall]

Quote: Ignore the typos..



Aidden wrote it, what do you expect?


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Quote: The Safehouse NWN game Sever

*grin* Just thought it kinda funny

[Aidden]

I have no idea what you are talking about...


you people are mean!!!

[Lisboa]

One other suggestion! Can we add a magic vendor? Rogues with use any item skill, and a rogue-mage like myself, could definitely use one.

[Aidden]

On the list...

[EZ_Telurinon]

Funny, I thought I saw a magic item vendor already...
Telurinon Aelvenborne, 52nd Rake of Black IsleMangore Orcsplitter, 40th Warrior of Black IsleDewin gan'Bran, 28th Wizard of black Isle
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day.

[Aidden]

Yes I was asked for this as well yesterday, and when I just went to add one, I found the one that was there

[Glip the Gnome]

Magic vendor was actually the first one I put in.

[EZ_Hummerlein]

hey i thought of an idea...save yourself the effort of killing me each time i bash down a door in the root cellar and write up a script for the door that has ondeath, kill attacker

[Glip the Gnome]

But killing you was so much fun!

[EZ_The Wolfen]

Hi Guys!

Been waiting for the server to come up for ages (in between finishing the gmae and starting my own module )

But I'm now having a small problem. I can connect to the server fine, I can create a character (Malvan Klaive, naturally), but when I've finished and hit 'play' I get an error saying that login has been refused due to the character being illegal. He's only a 1st level rogue, what could possibly be wrong with him?

Malvan Klaive.

[Aidden]

there is a Server code bug, wait for a reset and try again

[EZ_LordMaldian]

Hey I want to sign up. Where do I sign? Maldian's gearMaldian's emailEpic Ranger of the Wild Knights....humble follower of Tunare....distinguished member of the Lost Realms Society....