I've been eyeing this game Lineage ][ since I first heard about it a few years ago (I guess around the time Chronicle 1 came out). And on a whim from a sudden suggestion by my friend Frank, I decided to put up my own private server for Lineage ][.

Now take note, unlike in Ragnarok Online before, where some servers used leaked/hacked official server software for running the game (though eAthena and other server emulators are legal), Lineage ][ has effective server emulators that are perfectly legal under the GNU license. The condition of this legality being that we're not allowed to hack or modify anything in the client. So we can't have super stats, we can't have new custom items or model edits, no nothing. All we can do is modify server-side stuff, like monster spawns, drop rates, etc.

That legal stuff out of the way, I'm working on my super high rate server (65535x everything rates). Why such high rates? Because it's not going to be a 24/7 server. It's not even going to be a big server. Just me and a few friends, like Frank and Micko. We'll dress up our characters, then go to the beefed up dungeons and fight monsters with just us. Yeah I'm boosting the spawn rates in dungeons to make it insane.

So far so good. It's fun. It took a while to get the server set up, because it's in a language that I don't understand (MySQL). When I read on the website that it was Java-based, I thought I could handle it because I'm familiar with Java. But little did I know that while it runs on Java, all scripting and editable databases are in MySQL.

Right now I've been able to, with much trouble, figure out how to make my own custom NPCs and monsters. So that's what I'm doing now.

Anyway yeah, I'll continue fixing up my server later.