Hello..
MMorpg sounds a good idea, that im exploring right now.

but what i need to run one game with such flexibility?
Does it need a server? like a CPU just with the game running that's a wast of computer no?
How do someone connect to the server? which server?

Im yet confused about that.

the thing you need most is experience. start with something smaller. believe me, even getting 5 computers connected and get them to play the same game is quite some work. mmorpgs are very complicated.

yes, you'd need dedicated servers, and they ususally run different parts or levels of the game... and then you'll probably need 3dgs pro...

But what are dedicated server? i mean i need to buy a website? that will alow my clients to connect to that IP, and etc.. is that ?

maybe not exactly you are looking for but these topics will clear some ?'s:

http://www.coniserver.net/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=22902&Number=189253
http://www.coniserver.net/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=141200
http://www.coniserver.net/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=131665
http://www.coniserver.net/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=23044&Number=190134
http://www.coniserver.net/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=23023&Number=189988

Thanks alot for the help guys. will check everything, btw, when i read hire a machine(server) it means buy a computer just to be aserver?

you can either buy one yourself or hire it for monthly/yearly etc. They will let you run your server executable on their machines with something like powerful remote control tool. Mostly people hires these servers for creating private servers for mmo's or for game servers like cs,hl,cod.

A MMORPG will probably need more than 1 single dedicated server. Probably 1 per 'zone', plus a database server to store all the user data (if there is any)...

Plus amazingly complex network code

1 per zone? what you mean?

Yikes. Ok, here's my advice:

First:
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/showfaq.asp?forum_id=15

Second:
"Designing Virtual Worlds" by Richard Bartle
"Massively Multiplayer Game Development" edited by Thor Alexander

Third:
"Massively Multiplayer Game Development 2" edited by Thor Alexander
"Developing Online Games" by Jessica Mulligan and Bridgette Patrovsky


Hmmmm... yeaup, that ought to do it.

Wow fastlane, I never knew there were books around on MMORPG design ^^



Well, by MMORPG I am guessing more than 10 players (the massive part). You cannot possibly have the thousands of players that a MMORPG has, all contacting the one server...

Imagine a whole world, all with one server?

You must sub divide the world into parts, one server controlling one section or zone. Then when a player moves in and out of one, pass the information to the next server to process. Of course, its obviously much more complicated than this ^^

Getting 8 players to work smoothly is hard enough

Thanks,
Adoado