hey trevius greatly appreciate your help, I ended up having to set up static i.p. addresses for my computers in my house, and then port forwarding and instantly people could begin logging into my server
Have a brand new question here, and let me know if I should have started up another thread here...
Left server running for about 16 hours and then the zones stopped working, i'm not running any static zones yet, but for some odd reason every character in the character select screen are showing up in UNKNOWN ZONE.. and the world.exe is showing the following
[Debug] [WORLD_CLIENT_ERR]
nameofaccounthere: Zone not found in database zone_id=0, moveing char to arena character:
characternamehere
i replaced the blue text and red text with generic info btw
I did look into the character tables and attempted to manually set characters to be moved to poknowledge with zoneid 202 and this was reverted back to arena with zoneid 0 over and over... any help is very much appreciated