Posts by jerkinsoff

Most likely, not.

As far as I understand, all the "live" data that is emulated on the server is the data that the devs managed to obtain via data dumps. I have no idea whether those are official or anything, but the point is, the data that we, the players, get to receive from our locally-run servers is static, i.e. stored in files that are not updated in any automatic/dynamic way, so the only way to obtain this current loot pool from the online version would be to somehow get the current and precise EFT loot pool (which may not even be possible), process that data into the format that our locally-run servers would digest, and then send us all an update to store all the new and current and precise loot pool data in our local server files.

Or have us read that data from some online, constantly running SPT server, which is something surely off the table as the devs said many times because that could lead to people making the whole SPT thing into a COOP, basically competing with the regular EFT at a level that would get some really unwanted attention and then BSG would come to try and shut it all down for good.

This will not answer your question, but the server.exe is just that, a very simple, already complied executable file that you can run win wine, no problem at all. Given that it's a node server, I'd suggest double-checking that you're not missing any dependencies, but it's most likely to start just fine the very first time you run it.

You can do in any way that works best for you, too, be it running it directly via your own terminal like

$ wine path/to/Aki.Server.exe

or create a Lutris entry. In case you want the latter, though, when configuring the exe, navigate to System settings and turn on the option to run in a command line mode (I don't remember the exact wording, sorry). Both work with identical results for me, so I guess your ubuntu server should be fine as well.

Hit me up if you have any other questions, I just got the whole thing to run on my Linux drive this weekend, so maybe I could help you out in case of trouble.