Suppose I wanted to do a WoW remake...

[Philoric]

It's been a while since last time I made a post here. Some of you may have read my essay "Philoric's 10 levels of Warcraft". I can divulge that I've developed some of the ideas since I made that post, and others I've scrapped altogether.

Anyway, here is my question:

Lets say I want to create a private server for experimental purposes where I will be toying with quest creation, NPC placement, modified items including recipes and crafted items and then maybe some custom combat mechanics and mob-AI. I imagine it to run with a TBC-era client, say 2.4.3.

Which server emulator and other software would you recommend for someone such as me?
While I'm not unfamiliar with programming, I think you should consider me a novice in this context.

[Guest]

tools:
MS visual Studio 2008+

libraries:
mysql

mangos has a version dedicated to tbc emulation, also it has a scripting system project specifically for tbc and an sql db project for tbc. You'll have to source your own client because sharing one is piracy plain and simple and then read lot of tutorials, here and on MMOWNED(remove if external promotion is discouraged / bannable). Mangos also comes with the tutorials for unpacking wow data into a useable format for your server!

Also did you know you do not have to learn how to program, learn how to compile first as it is a fundamental underpinning of how to program (code all you like, it's arbitrary until compiled)

Lastly:
do not make any more random posts like this, because they are not titled correctly and the info is findable through the search function on google, mmowned and modcraft!

Have a nice day :ufu:  :uxmas:  :ulol:  :udevil: