TAGN WON Replacement (Alpha)

Over the last few months been working on a new WON replacement and feel like its in good enough state that I should open it up for others to test since there is only so much I can test alone!

Lets get right to the good stuff!

How to Connect:

1. First up need to download a replacement kver.pub file, this is basically just a client key to say its allowed to connect to the server, extract to game folder and overwrite.
2. Open up SWAT.INI and paste this at the bottom, so after the Mods=
   [DirectoryServers]
   Server1=swat3.ninjasfate.com:15104
3. Boot up the game and login! right now an account will get created upon login so just throw in a Username and Password, I'd suggest a throw away password since SWAT uses older encryption.
4. If you want to use the AccountWizard extract this to the SWAT dir, the wizard also needs its own version of the kver and since the ini is just the server info its included in this, I've done less testing with wizard itself but if you want to make sure you've got an email tied to your account this is way to go, though right now recovering username/password won't work since I've not setup an email sender for that, I will look into though.

This has pretty much been built from the ground up so if I didn't recall a feature existed and try to replicate it, it won't be there so let me know! of course as with any bugs, I'll be checking this topic and if something pops up I'll try fix it and if you can let me know the steps to how you broke something that'll be great, hopefully nothing flat out crashes the server! though I will try keep an eye on it especially in these early days to make sure its up and running and try not to take it down to push a fix if there is any games going, assuming its not a critical fix.

Hosted on a not so powerful VPS right now but I figure it should be fine for what's still left of the community, we'll soon find out if we run into any CPU/RAM issues.

Bonus:
This project kind of turned into a bit more than I planned and ended up coming up with a new website just going by Tactical Ape Gaming Network at the moment, I bring it up since that is where the original instructions for getting connected along with telling you if the server is online/offline, if there are players online, if there are any games online and some various other stats on the server in general, figured its easier to check a site to see if anything is happening vs booting up the game.

Absolutely amazing Dark!  You have no idea how excited I am to try this, and the nostalgia I had and have while reading this post.
Thank you so much for all the hard work and effort put into this game and keeping it alive!  If I encounter any issues/bugs I will definitely let you know and keep records/screenshots.

Once again thank you, and to Jim.  We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you guys 

I have done some testing and it worked perfectly with two people playing from the same IP.   We both went peer-2-peer on the same network.  Now we need to test how well it works from people who are playing from different locations (ie not on the same local network).

Perhaps we need to organize a date and time when people can get together for a stress test.

DarkSynopsis is such a good guy he was worried about stepping on Nuwon's toes and was worried about releasing this.   I personally think it is good thing for the community to have options.   This system will probably be perfect for small communities or gaming clans whereas Nuwon has the potential for a large public server.

At this point we have no idea what the capacity of the TAGN network is.    Either way thanks to DarkSynopsis and Tactical Ape for developing this at their own personal expense (ie server hosting fees).

Note:  People may want to make a backup of the kver.pub file and their swat.ini file.

I connected to the server and played a few missions and everything seems to be working smooth!  Dark you are amazing.
I was only able to play alone until someone else is online or until one of my buddies gets off work but we are going to try later on and see how it works with us both playing.
Just wanted to let you guys know, I ping 88 so thats not bad considering I'm on the East Coast.  So excited for this!!  Will definitely donate to help out in any way, I know it takes alot of hard work and time and effort and we are all very grateful!

Glad to hear you got connected ok! real test will be some multiplayer games, Jim tested within his own network, as did I during all my testing but I did throw in a client on VPN and a client on a mobile hotspot to make sure it wasn't going through my network and that did work though both of those can introduce their own port issues and such so they would fall back to running games through the WON server as a fallback, hopefully when its more home networks games will go Peer to Peer like it use to.

Sorry guys I have been offline for a few days.

I seem to have injured my right shoulder somehow and using the mouse on the computer is extremely painful. Not sure if it is arthritis from an old hairline fracture when I was in my 20s or if this is similar to tennis elbow (but for shoulder).

It is slowly healing now.