My win10 doesn't support installation of .net 4.8

[mir2pion]

Was going to give it a look and maybe spend some time on it but no luck running your launcher. I run win10 2015 version and TBH thought of installing newer version sometimes soon but not now. Is that really necessary? Not long ago, I ran into the same thing with Crystal MapEditor but there simple edit of config file has done away with that requirement. How do I change your config file to get past it?

Besides that, what's this Login Name vs Display Name?
Which one is the usual 'Acct Name' that you until recently made for 'normal' mir2 servers?

Private means not even for your eyes as server owner?

Public... Displayed to other users... like other players? Or that means just server admins? Normally 'other users' would only see only my ingame character name. Am I making here my ingame char name maybe?

 

[Wittin]

Hey, so we require .net 4.8 installed to run it, otherwise, you will have issues. I'm pretty sure 4.8 is installed by windows updates these days, but also can be installed standalone on anything back to windows 7, so I'm surprised to hear you can't install it. That's definitely something you're going to need to tackle be it through windows updates or whatnot.

In terms of the accounts, we used a centralised identity authority to provide login to all our services, so just treat it like you usually would any account, Login Name is your username for the Game, the Display Name is the name associated with your account, it can be your full name, or nickname, or whatever you like. It's just security, as you don't want people identifying you by your username generally so you give a display name, which is essentially a soft name associated to your account. All characters are still handled by the game server, so nothing is effected there.

Hope it all makes sense.

 

[mir2pion]

Thanks, I think I will have to install newer win10. I use LTSB (LTSC) win10 editions that are further 'locked in' by a customization and .net 4.8 just refuses to install.
I got hold of win10 2016 with integrated updates to current date with
* .NET Framework 3.5
* .NET Framework 4.8
That should do the trick. From what I noticed around here over time, likely I won't be the only one without the .netF 4.8

I'll try to make sense from the rest thanks a bunch.

 

[mir2pion]

I hope you are not shooting yourself in foot with that registration. I take it, pple can't play on your server without this registration. Or is there the usual (&separate from this webpage registration) acct/pass procedure to get to the char selection screen?

On different note, that password evaluation depends on the attacker knowing the associated acct. name, or login name or display name, whatever. Don't you first need to have that before you can start cracking the password?
Like, suppose my pass is '1', you tell me it gets cracked in under a second, but what about first getting or guessing or cracking the associated acct. name, it doesn't count into security level?

What I am getting at is, your pass evaluation presumes the acct name is already known. But that is not accessible same as password and if you access one, like someone hacking into your server acct. database, or any other database, you get both acct. names & passes.

I have a special pattern to make passwords generally and now you tell me it is inadequate and on top of that, require use of a special symbol in password, which I don't use and if I use it now, I won't recall the pass some time hence (ok, its just a game), while I can recall passes even years old for various forums, emails, shopping places, even banking.