Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline

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Post by apitman » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 11:10 PM UTC

Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline
github.com

Re: Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline

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Post by recycledmatt » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 12:21 AM UTC

Awesome to see AoE, and games in general being future proofed. Sad when functionality is lost because someone turned off a server.

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Post by abigail95 » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 12:39 AM UTC

How do you put a Terms of Use with an AGPL license? Isn't this a "further restriction" which the license says you can remove?

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#4

Post by Rendello » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 12:41 AM UTC

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Post by 486sx33 » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 12:48 AM UTC

So how can I play AoE 3 the war chiefs online ?

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Post by hoten » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 12:49 AM UTC

Bit confused on the webserver aspect of this. Is it just the match making / game broadcast component of AoE multiplayer?

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Post by LPisGood » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 12:50 AM UTC

This is excellent.

I wonder if there any public documentation for AoE3’s API that was used to make this or if this was all newly reverse engineered. I’ve seen people ask about this kind of documentation before, but I’ve never seen it.

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Post by pininja » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 1:06 AM UTC

hoten wrote: post #6

Bit confused on the webserver aspect of this. Is it just the match making / game broadcast component of AoE multiplayer?

I was curious about this too and enjoyed reading the routes file https://github.com/luskaner/ageLANServer/blob/main/server/in...

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Post by CSMastermind » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 1:08 AM UTC

486sx33 wrote: post #5

So how can I play AoE 3 the war chiefs online ?

If you're okay buying it then the definitive edition is on sale with active servers and includes War Chiefs among other things.

There were some questionable changes to the names of things to make them more politically correct but the game play is better than ever.

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Post by anamexis » Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 1:11 AM UTC

abigail95 wrote: post #3

How do you put a Terms of Use with an AGPL license? Isn't this a "further restriction" which the license says you can remove?

Seems more like a CYA thing to prevent takedowns