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Hey, as been stupid as i am (witch can be quite a lot) i have been wondering for a while (and having some resources for it) about hosting own private server of imvu. How feasible would this even be? (like with World of Warcrafts private servers) I know the client side is not so much of an issue. But has/is there ever been any information regarding server side? Or do this fall down to tedious Reverse engineering project?


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Tedious Reverse engineering project.

IMVU staff has a github account where they posted the core code that handled requests on their server ... well over a decade ago. The code is highly outdated and incomplete, but gives you a good idea on how complex IMVU is on the server side. There are also IMVU engineering blogs that map out the network and its complexities. Any attempt at making an IMVU private server take about a team of 2 - 3 programmers about 2 years if my estimates are accurate, which normally they are. That team would need to contain programmers who are already well versed in IMVU's systems, as well as extensive knowledge of networking and server administration if you plan on the server actually handling a decent sized population. Chat rooms can be one of the most resource intensive systems to host on a server ... so many repeating connections and heat beats.

You would be better off investing time in making an IMVU unity mod. You still get to make your own IMVU functionality that way, and you can legally make money off of it. Not to mention you would actually get to spend time programming and developing instead of reverse engineering someone else's system.

yea i agree it will take a long time to make it and test it out for any type of bugs or glitches in the system

Okey, thanks for the information. I thought it would be quite the task to take over. But as an idea unity mod ain't half bad idea. I got a group of buddies who all are itching to find something new to try to do. (of course not going to be done in a day or two.) but for sure an idea to blow over idea board and see what could be done reasonably enough. Maybe even make it better.