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1) Go into AC-Chat\Config\chatserver.properties, and edit password to YOURSQLPASSWORD.

2) Go into AC-Login\config\network\database.properties, and edit password to YOURSQLPASSWORD.

3a) Go into AC-Game\config\network\database.properties, and edit password to YOURSQLPASSWORD.

3b) Go into AC-Game\config\network\ipconfig.xml, and change <ipconfig default=""> to be the Wireless LAN Network Connection IPv4 address (for local play) or your global IP (for online with other computers outside of your network).

3c) Go into AC-Game\config\network\network.properties, and edit password to YOURSQLPASSWORD.

3d) Go into AC-Game\config\main\gameserver.properties, and edit the gameserver.version to match the client (found in client\version.ini).

4) Load Navicat Premium and make a connection to the Vertrigo MySQL server using username: root, password: YOURSQLPASSWORD.

5) Make two new databases, ac_server_gs and ac_server_ls. Right-click each and select Execute SQL, and select the respective query with none of the tickboxes selected.
NOTE: IF YOU GET AN ERROR ABOUT INVALID SYNTAX ON level_up_date, EDIT THE QUERY TO USE A TIMESTAMP OF CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.

6) Right-click My Computer, and click Properties. Click Advanced System Settings, then click the Environment Variables button.

7) Click the New button for User variables, call it PATH, and for the value, just hit your spacebar once.

8) Click the New button for System variables, call it CLASSPATH, and make the value ".;" (without quotes).

9) Click the New button for System variables, call it JAVA_HOME, and make the value the path to the included JavaHotFixOn folder.

10) Scroll down in System variables to find the Path variable, and exit the existing Java path (mine was C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;) to be "%JAVA_HOME%\bin;" (without quotes).

11) Open AC-Chat and run StartCS.bat. Use number 1 for the cmd option on the screen.

12) Open AC-Login and run StartLS.bat. Use number 1 for the cmd option on the screen.

13) Open AC-Game and run StartGS.bat. Use number 1 for the cmd option on the screen.

14) Copy the bin32 folder and Play Aion.bat file to the game client folder.

15) Edit the Play Aion.bat file, and change the IP inside to match the IP you used in step 3.

16) Run the client! It can take a while to load the NCSoft screen, and it might look like it is stuck, but just wait a few minutes and it should have changed by then to be the game client log-in screen.

17) Log-in with any details you want! It has an auto-register function for your database.