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- How to create an Empires Server on Windows from A to Z.
- Downloading the Empires Server Files and running it for the first time:
- 1. Download and install SteamCMD: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD
- 1.1. Create a folder for SteamCMD
- 1.2. Download SteamCMD for Windows (https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd.zip)
- 1.3. Extract the contents of the zip to the folder
- 1.4. Run steamcmd.exe
- 2. Right click on the folder in which steamcmd.exe has been installed.
- 3. Click "open command invite here"
- 4. Enter: "steamcmd.exe +login anonymous +app_update 460040 validate +quit" (without the quotes)
- 5. Navigate to (steamcmd.exe's directory)\steamapps\common\Empires Dedicated Server
- 6. Create Start Empires Dedicated Server.bat
- 7. Right-click on it click modify or edit with notepad++ (recommended)
- 8. Enter: "srcds.exe -game "empires" -console -toconsole -secure +map emp_district402 +maxplayers 64" (without the quotes)
- 8.1 for a more advanced script look here:
- 9. If your server does not appear in the list make sure to open port 27015. If it still doesn't appear try to route ports above 27015 until it shows.
- (Optional) Setting up fast download:
- 1. Create a folder for your fastdl
- 2. Download and install XAMPP: https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
- 2.1 You will need apache and MySQL
- 3. Open XAMPP
- 4. Configure XAMPP: click config (the one with a wrench top right)
- 4.1. (optional but recommended) set your editor to notepad++
- 4.2. Set Apache and MySQL to autostart
- 5. Configure Apache:
- 5.1. Under Apache click config
- 5.2. Select Apache (httpd.conf)
- 5.3. search for DocumentRoot
- 5.4. Modify the path with the path to the folder your created for fastdl (for example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamcmd\steamapps\common\Empires Dedicated Server\fastdl)
- 6. Don't forget to root the ports required by Apache and MySQL (80, 443 and 3306).
- 7. Create an empires folder in your fastdl directory
- 8. Enter localhost in your web browser, you should see an empires folder.
- 9. Navigate to your Empires Dedicated Server directory and go in cfg\server.cfg\server
- 10. Under sv_downloadurl enter "http://yourIP/empires/" (with quotes)
- 11. Copy your map, materials, models, particles, resource, scripts, shaders and sound folder to your fastdl\empires\ directory (not really necessary but better safe than sorry).
- (Optional) Setting up sourcemod:
- 0. Shortcut: Mr. X.'s server config: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxQWn9jKBIAJR214ek5FQ2xRbm8
- 0.1. Extract the archive in your Empires Dedicated Server\empires\ directory.
- 0.2. This will erase anything you've configured in the previous stage (For example: the fastdl URL).
- 1. Download and install Metamod: http://www.sourcemm.net/downloads/mmsource-1.10.6-windows.zip
- 1.1. Extract the archive in your Empires Dedicated Server\empires\ directory.
- 1.2. (optional) to make sure it's installed correctly start your server and type meta list in the console.
- 2. Download and install Sourcemod: http://www.sourcemod.net/downloads.php
- 1.1. Extract the archive in your Empires Dedicated Server\empires\ directory.
- 1.2. (optional) to make sure it's installed correctly start your server and type meta list in the console.
- 3. (optional but highly recommended) Fixing sourcemod's offsets.
- 3.1. Download (or copy): https://www.delftelectronics.nl/game.empires.txt.
- 3.2. Navigate to Empires Dedicated Server\empires\addons\sourcemod\gamedata\sdktools.games.
- 3.3. Replace game.empires.txt with the one you downloaded.
- 4. (optional but highly recommended) Fixing sourcemod's vote percentage results.
- 3.1. Navigate to Empires Dedicated Server\empires\addons\sourcemod\translations
- 3.2. Open basevotes.phrases.txt (and ultimate-mapchooser.phrases.txt if you have UMC3)
- 3.3. search for "%%" and replace it with "percent" (without the quotes)
- 5. (optional) Install more plugins: https://wiki.empiresmod.com/Sourcemod_Plugins
- 5.1 to install more sourcemod plugins either extract the archive in your Empires Dedicated Server\empires directory.
- 5.2 If you download an .smx file put it in Empires Dedicated Server\empires\addons\sourcemod\plugins
- 5.3 to compile .sp files put them in Empires Dedicated Server\empires\addons\sourcemod\scripts and run compile.exe
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