[SOLVED] Cross-Realm Feature

[Intouch]

Hello guys!

Does anyone have an idea how Cross-Realm feature works.
Informations about Cross-Realm feature: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10551009/patch-54-feature-preview-connected-realms-8-5-2013

So I'm just looking for suggestions and some kind of help (don't need scripts just ideas and suggestions, but also if someone want to help with scripting feel free to post your idea here and we can improve it etc)

Tell me which files and functions should be used for following features:

- Virtual Realm names (to display realm name near player' name)
- Cross-Realm Connection between two or more realms.
- Sharing/transfering characters to other realms (maybe it possible to do something with "CharactersPerRealm" in worldserver.conf"

 

[Sylica]

Hello guys!

Does anyone have an idea how Cross-Realm feature works.
Informations about Cross-Realm feature: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10551009/patch-54-feature-preview-connected-realms-8-5-2013

So I'm just looking for suggestions and some kind of help (don't need scripts just ideas and suggestions, but also if someone want to help with scripting feel free to post your idea here and we can improve it etc)

Tell me which files and functions should be used for following features:

- Virtual Realm names (to display realm name near player' name)
- Cross-Realm Connection between two or more realms.
- Sharing/transfering characters to other realms (maybe it possible to do something with "CharactersPerRealm" in worldserver.conf"

Having a cross-realm feature would be very nice to have in wow emulation. I think there is will some issues on that, and the current setups for the emulators are currently preventing that, specially on the features to provide cross realm instance/battlegrounds interaction.

My project, currently working on a setup for these features in future emulation projects. At this point, tons of coding and testing.

CharactersPerRealm is for the current realm. Nothing to do with cross realm connections.

 

[FoxGaming]

Okay, all jokes aside I'm just not sure this is really...not going to say possible, but just not feasible with current emulators. To say it's not possible is incorrect, however you need to look at the way realms are structured and hosted on the blizzard side compared to the way we host them here on the private server side.

Private servers as we know them have 3 features, an Auth server to handle authentication(obviously lol), a World server to handle the World(So vague but it works), and the Game client. Our main focus here is the World Server, our entire World is hosted by one physical server application.

Blizzard if you didn't know already does not have one physical application running per server, blizz has each Zone running on its own Server(By server I mean machine, not sure if they're still using Blade technology but regardless) That means that Hyjal is its own server, Orgrimmar is its own server, and so on and so forth. Each realm is split up into many servers rather than one. It is with this technology that they're able to implement the cross-realm feature, which we'll just put simply is at the minimum 3 applications, so let's just say take a cross realm Orgrimmar. If you're in Orgrimmar I'm willing to bet that your client is not connected to the Orgrimmar server, you are instead connected to a handler which links the 3 Orgrimmar servers that make up the "Crossed Realms".

So, is it impossible to do? No, nothing is "impossible" per say, but is it worth it to bring to the emulator scene? Probably not, it is just not needed here. If you're set on it, you will be better off creating your own Emulator rather than modifying already created technology.

 

[Intouch]

Yeah I agree that it's hard.

What about this thing: Virtual Realm names (to display realm name near player' name), where I can implement this (which function to use etc)

Also if someone have more ideas and suggestions how to make/handle cross-realm feature feel free to post your ideas etc

 

[Sylica]

Well, most projects that might have these features, might not go public with them, and just keep them private. My project team does have this in testing and might go public with it, later this year. We'll be hosting a game server with the features live, including 4.3.4a with CRZ (Cross Realm Zones) once complete. With 4.3.4, will not go public, with the amount of issues it currently has. Its also possible, just very time consuming. For those that want it, will work for it greatly.