Are you trying to be a ass? You could easily put this as "Everyone killing their asses off in editing RealOTS game binary, while building a clone is much better and its perfect doable to make it behavior like the real thing".
Now answering you post: People are killing their asses off because you have the best/perfect 1/1 clone and they don't. If you had shared it with a community your post would make more sense: "Everyone killing their asses off in editing RealOTS game binary, meanwhile i have shared the best 1/1 clone made in tfs for the community with no differences from the real thing, smh."
Another reason is what people said, they want the real thing with bigger rates just to play it as it was in 2006(because hosting is problematic as everyone knows already).
Btw, age of empires 2 hd edition was made using the old 1997 engine/code. Why? Because using new code to clone the game never reproduces 100% the original behavior. Its why they decided to take the old engine and make it modern.
About oldschool server, people need to be aware of that and be happy with the tradeoff with almost 100% clone with new features vs 100% genuine old outdated and boring engine.
When I get to cool myself off I get to see how bad it actually sounds, I'm sorry, that was indeed what I meant to say, I'm sometimes not the best at expressing myself
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I said what I said in response to Tony incredible amounts of hate against my persona during my newbie days trying to recreate the RealOTS
, I stated that above concerning that post of mine, I'm sorry that it sound wrong and that it got misinterpreted to be an insult to other people
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Creating a Tibia server from scratch is not really a hard task, in less than a month someone experienced can do it (I'm trying to make one for educational purposes that will use CipSoft files and I will release that one on Github), but a whole game like AoE is a whole different story, Tibia is a basic game.
Most people that want to put RealOTS up for production do it for the money, nothing else, because there is no other 7.7 good real map out there for them to download and run, so it's better for them to use the real thing since it's already made and with technically no bugs, some want to do it for Nostalgia and to fulfill their joy by running it, but fake Ecstazya tried it (last guy known to run RealOTS as a full RPG game in production), and it last less than 1.5 months, and maximum level was around 112~ because everyone would QQ to include tasks and experience share, and what did fake Ecstazya said about it? He said he was making that possible in the game binary, lying to his player base
so people eventually stopped playing because it was mostly a single player game, it's things that are not possible in that engine.
Even Iryont's version of RealOTS died, and what did he say about it? That the server is way too limited for production in modern days, he is a God of RPG, owner of Medivia and even rejected running RealOTS once more (and look that the website he had made for RealOTS is pure GOLD, too bad he hasn't used it again).
Everyone is free in doing whatever they want, but in my lack of humbleness I cannot stop but criticize and tell people to instead do it in an OT, it really isn't that hard to make a basic OT 7.7 better than most that are found online, publicly and privately
(in exception for e.e because he seems to do things better than most - aka; Zanera server) I just can't stop, I don't see good morality in using the real thing to host their own game instead of working on their own and making something from scratch like I have (they can learn, even more than I have learnt thanks to that), that I have not been able to show the potential of a real clone is a different story, but I hope someone understands and starts to do it in an OT, like that guy that's doing one in C#, shoutout for him!
