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It uses the Torgue engine so it can be modified fairly easily. It seems that everyone here wants to talk about how shitty MMOs are right now and how the devs don't know what they're doing, but no one wants to even make a small server to try out their own ideas and show the world how it's done.Īnother game that lets you host your own server is Minions of Mirth. I'm actually surprised that more people here don't host their own PW in NWN. Of course, if you have a team of 4 people and they all chip in $50 a month.

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Of course, that would cost around $100 to $200 a month, but I don't think that there's anything in the EULA that prevents you from selling swag supporting you're server / mod (hats, T-shirts, coffe mugs, key chains). So leasing a couple of dedicated gaming servers and portalling them together would probably be your best bet. I also heard a rumor that the NWN2 dedicated server could host around 200 players at once. You can also 'portal' servers together in much the same way that most MMOs use zones. I hope this explanation helps a bit - and I would recommend you to get NWN anyway (and not wait for NWN2) because it's dead cheap now ($20 or so all expansions included, the Diamond Edition) and because it will take some time before that many NWN2 player-build modules are available. That's how persistent characters are handled. Every time someone logs off from your server this server vault character is updated. Every time someone connects to your server and creates a character this character is placed into this server vault. Every NWN installation has two of them, a local vault (that's where characters for single-player are stored) and a so-called server vault that is used when you start the NWN server. Pick a module, run it on your local PC, it's easy and you're all set.Ĭharacters in NWN are stored in vaults. But this method is a great thing if you want to role-play with a couple of friends.

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When you run the game server on your normal game PC and you also have a game or DM client running you can only host smaller parties, perhaps for up to 8 or 10 players. This is quite an effort however, and these servers are almost always run by groups of people (a couple of GMS, some writers, some programmers, some world-builders). That's about the maximum of concurrent players you can get with the NWN technology.

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When you have the server program running on a beefy dedicated machine with a very good Internet connection (think about professional quality machine, not your normal home office PC) you can host about 100, 120 concurrent players. Load the module into the server program and you host this module so that other players can join up. Just load a module into the game client and you can play the module in single-player, no big deal.

With these programs and a module you can do several things. You use this program to generate maps, place buildings and items, to populate the map with mobs and NPCs, to give the NPCs dialogue, to write scripts, about everything that the player encounters when playing NWN is defined in the toolset. This can be small scale or something bigger, depending on whether you run the server on a dedicated machine with a high bandwidth connection or whether you just run the server on your local gaming machine. That's a program you can start to host a module for other players to join. For example the GM can spawn mobs, or can act as NPC or can spawn items and many more things. This is the core engine for the graphics, the animation, for the D&D ruleset - but there is actually no content (Quests, dialogues, encounters with mobs, maps) coded in this game client - all content is defined in a so-called module.Īn extended version of the game client with more functionality intended for use by a GM. That's the program that every player starts to play the game, no matter whether he wants to play single-player or multi-player.

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When you buy NWN (or NWN2 when it is released) you get several things, a couple of programs and at least one module (and you can download thousands of other modules).

Keep in mind I'm not going out and buying NWN, I'm just trying to understand, as I will most likely by buying the new one.

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If a player is going to host their own persistent world, where they make the rules, wouldn't they have to be able to host a lot of people? And what happens when that person is offline and not hosting? Is it that each time we play, it's on a different server with new characters? I have looked all over for these answers, but have really gotten nowhere.

I keep hearing about players hosting their own persistent worlds, how does this work? Is it like a player can host a game, and our characters are stored with them? I'm hoping this question makes sense, because I'm having trouble wording it properly.

I never played the original NWN, but with the sequel coming out soon, it has sparked my interest.