Selfhosted

With AzerothCore you can, yes.

Update, I downloaded the VMangos database. It looks like it might be possible to edit drop rates with creature_loot_template(ChanceOrQuestChance) and XP gain by using creature_template(xp_multiplier)

I haven't hosted anything yet but it could be tested by editing a Chicken's xp_multiplier from 0.0 to 1.0

"Yeah, sure, I see no problems with that. Alternatively, I could just boost your characters to max level if you would like?"

You can mod the database for creatures to drop more xp, gold and loot from the looks of it.

I don’t know if I played it much if at all.

It’s been so long and I know for sure that I did not play cataclysm.

I also never got too high of a level in the game either and mostly solo quested. It’s just fun to go around mindlessly.

I might be mistaken but at the time of writing there was 1 post about AI

The latest LLM's are pretty damn good as a research assistant - that was its original purpose. Using chatgpt as your first go at researching a new subject (like self hosting) is perfectly valid.

What’s wrong with this?

Haha, well when searching for games that can be self hosted, it’s gives a list which I can then further research on the web.

Oh wow, thanks for the recommendation. This looks perfect.

That's awesome.

Turtle WoW is great, I'm dreading Blizzard shutting it down though. I'm hoping they avoid them but I feel their upcoming remastered client might attract too much attention.

I just checked the server without logging into the game and it’s using like 106% of the CPU on idle when I logged in and played a little bit. It didn’t change too much but it’s consistently running that high at idle because I guess things in the game world are running so I’m probably going to stop the service and start it when I’m gonna play to just lower my electric usage

Install wasn’t too bad, I used a mix of chatgpt and install documentation when I get stuck.

One problem I had was that I was aiming for burning crusade, but and chatgpt told me that Azerothcore supported burning crusade.

So after getting the server up and learning this, I had to find a wotlk client.

The choose of expansion was arbitrary, I just didn’t want modern wow.

There are some data files you have to supply, but they can just be downloaded from github and the guide even links to it.

I’m not sure about resources, but for a small instance, I think it’s pretty light. I’ve only just installed it on a i5-3470 cpu server, and it seems to play fine.

I’ve only played for like 5 minutes as I’ve not had time to play and monitor how heavy it is.

I did it like 10 or so years back? It was pretty easy to be completely honest and didn't require too many resources, at least not if you're the only one using the server. You just run the server locally and then use the client to connect to that server. That's basically it.

And no, the game comes with all the quests and everything, you don't need to really do anything else. The downsides is that you'll be locked out of a bunch of content like dungeons and raids since those require groups of 5 or more players.