I do it for a living so I'd be happy to help set up a new server if it comes to that.
Latest posts made by Anduris
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RE: Supporting Arabel, Long Term
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RE: Which areas do you think are just too dark?
Cave beneath the Night Wolf is pitch black.
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Bregon Luana researches devil pacts
Specifically how pacts are made (rituals, etc) and where the terms are recorded, if applicable.
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RE: How to get everything running on a Mac
Quick update - you'll need to request multiplayer CD keys from GoG, otherwise you will get an error message if somebody else who bought the game via GoG is playing on the same server. http://www.gog.com/forum/neverwinter_ni ... ady_in_use
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How to get everything running on a Mac
I just went through this and being a software engineer I was able to figure some stuff out that others may not be able to do so easily. Thought I'd post the steps here for future reference.
1. Download the game at GoG - it's $9.99. http://www.gog.com/game/neverwinter_nig ... nd_edition I'm sure if you already have the Windows version you can use that but it may be a little trickier.
2. Follow the instructions here: http://paulthetall.com/neverwinter-online-mac/ (You'll need that wrapper, and just to update the ini file)
3. The auto hak downloader will need some tweaking in order to get it to run on mac. First you'll need homebrew - http://brew.sh
4. Install wget - "brew install wget"
5. Install p7zip - "brew install p7zip". Brew installs it as "7za"
6. Paste the following (modified for mac) auto hak downloader bash script into an empty file. Run "chmod +x {filename}", then "./{filename}" in the terminal to run it.
#!/bin/bash directory="COAFILES" coaserverfile="http://216.155.133.53/forum/download/player.xml" command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "The script require wget but it's not installed. Aborting."; exit 1; } command -v 7za >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "The script require 7za but it's not installed. Aborting."; exit 1; } echo "This script will download the necessary haks to play COA" echo "Answer yes to proceed" read -p "$ " ans ans="$(echo ${ans} | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')" if [ "$ans" == "yes" ]; then if [ -d "$directory" ]; then echo "`pwd`/$directory already exists!" echo "Want to remove the directory $directory and continue?" read -p "$ " ans ans="$(echo ${ans} | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')" if [ "$ans" == "yes" ]; then rm -rf $directory else echo "No changes has been made" exit 1 fi fi mkdir $directory cd $directory directory=`pwd` wget $coaserverfile -O TEMP.XML xmldir=(`cat "TEMP.XML" | grep '<subfolder' |="" cut="" -d="" '="">' -f 2 | cut -d '<' -f 1`) xmlurl=(`cat "TEMP.XML" | grep '<url' |="" cut="" -d="" '="">' -f 2 | cut -d '<' -f 1`) rm -f TEMP.XML for (( i=0;i!=${#xmlurl[@]};i++)); do category=${xmldir[${i}]} package=${xmlurl[${i}]} if [[ ! -d "$category" && ! -z "$category" ]]; then mkdir $category fi if [ ! -z "$category" ]; then cd $category fi wget $package -O temp.7z 7za e temp.7z cd $directory done echo "Everything was downloaded and extracted!" echo "Now merge the files from $directory to your NWN directory." echo "Have fun playing CoA and please leave a comment on the forum!" exit 1 else echo "No downloads started" exit 1 fi</url'></subfolder'>
7. The script will put all the hak files in ~/COAFILES. The original auto hak downloader renames all of the files to lowercase only. I'm not sure why it needs to do that, but there are two files inside of the "override" directory that are uppercase that you should probably rename.
8. Right click on the NWN executable that the WINE wrapper installed and choose "Show package contents", like in the step for updating nwn.ini. Place all of the files in COAFILES/hak in your NWN directory's hak folder. Same with "override". Finally, replace the "dialog.tlk" in the NWN root directory with the dialog.tlk installed by the hak downloader.
9. Open up terminal, type "sudo nano /private/etc/hosts", and type in your password. Make two new lines at the bottom of the file:
0.0.0.0 nwmaster.bioware.com 0.0.0.0 peerchat.gamespy.com ```Press ctrl-o to save, then ctrl-x to exit. 10\. Boot the game with the WINE executable. The first time it'll ask you where your NWN.exe file is - make sure you choose "nwmain.exe" Hope this helps!
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RE: Returning player after ~10 years
Got it. Just killed Froidoc's bats; brought back the memories. Looking forward to playing again!
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RE: Returning player after ~10 years
I had to modify the automatic hak downloader to get it to work on mac, but it looks like I got everything OK. However when I try to connect to the server after creating my character I get a message, "Error loading module". I'm guessing this is something to do with a missing hakpack. Any ideas?
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RE: Returning player after ~10 years
I'm trying the instructions + wine wrapper from here: http://paulthetall.com/neverwinter-nights-mac/
Crossing my fingers. Anything else I should dl besides the hakpacks?
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Returning player after ~10 years
On a whim I decided to come back and check this place out again, and wow, I'm really stoked that so many people are still playing. I think I have the old game CDs around at my parents' house, but I'm currently Mac-only so I'm not sure if those would work. Any suggestions on how to get back up and running again? Looks like Amazon sells the Mac version but I'm not sure if it'll work on OSX.
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RE: Favorite IRC / Discord quotes!
Can I call you babe, Tempest?
Sure babe.
Alright, sugar.