For those who missed it, D2Ware! Now with DeathMatch

~~> http://d2ware.net/lobbies (subreddit: r/d2ware)

DeathMatch is not the same as DeathMode, I'm still working on it. In deathmatch you have infinite gold, spawn at level 25 and there are no respawn times.

Be patient. It takes a few minutes until the lobby is full. Lobbies need 10 players to start. The "Connect" button will become available when the server is ready.

PM me in case you find any bugs

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Instructions

To create or join a lobby easily, just browse the mod you wanna play in the plugins section and click "Quick Join". It'll either join or create a lobby for that plugin if it doesn't exist.

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So, this project started because me and tet wanted an easier way for people to share and play mods.

We've been working since our last mod release on this, I didn't have time to create another mod to announce with d2ware, and we had to release it sooner than intended, I'll explain in the next paragraphs.

The game servers all run in our servers, it allows us to have more control over the environment they're ran in, and it lets developers publish private plugins if they wish.

The problem with that is that we have to run expensive servers to cover those operations, and it costs us a lot of money ($200/month at the moment). Our lease expires soon (20/04) and we need donations to keep the server up while we develop it, so we had to release it sooner than intended, so a few features are disabled and will be enabled as I code them.

We appreciate all donations received, anything over $8 will give you a lifetime membership, which gives your lobbies priority in the queue. The membership isn't implemented yet, on the next version everyone who has already donated will receive their benefits. Donation links are in the site.

The current servers are all located in Texas. We plan to host servers in other locations if there are enough donations to cover its costs.

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Mod developers

You can check the "Developers" tab in the site for more information on how to run your own server and how to code your own mods. The API is EXTREMELY incomplete, so feel free to ask for any api functions that already exist in sourcemod in #smjs on GameSurge irc, new api functions will have low priority though. The plugin submission system will be enabled on the next site update. Here are the files for Random OMG Mode, if you want to learn something: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ayxx56zis11tsl5

Plugins that you submit to our site do not need to be approved, they run in a sandboxed environment that prevents them from damaging our servers, however, notice that submitting plugins that simply clog up the resources of our servers will result in a ban. And we may have to add a moderation queue if that becomes an issue.