patch_VoA.conf
 

I noticed that the latest source for compiling has a file called patch_VoA.com and I was wondering if a newly compiled server with this file would allow for use of the VoA client?

I know, it's probably just a pipe dream but I like the UI better on the live client, LOL.

Speaking of pipe dreams, I need to get to foraging some weeds! LOL

there is no "VoA Client" and a very simple search here would answer your question as to what the patch_VoA.conf (not .com) is about.

Yeah, sorry for the typo, but there actually is a VoA client, so to say,

"You can get this client by fully patching to EQ Live using an F2P (or paid) account."

- A simple search would also show that but thanks for pointing out that I should have searched for it. Sometimes I get exhausted working on my server and stuff and forget to search, LOL. My bad of course.

Anyway, thanks for your input, I found out what I needed to know. That is all.

There is no stable VoA client. You get whatever the current version is from Sony, and it is most likely not the same version the patch_VoA.conf file works with, so it doesn't work.

So, when someone tells you there's no VoA client, as far as the playing on the emu is concerned, they're right.

Um, whatever. Technically there is a client. I never said it was stable. I am not that stupid.

Anyway, have a nice day!

Your attitude will go far in getting you any help you need here.

A client you can't play with is the same as no client at all.

There is no VoA client. There is the Live client. Live's current expansion is VoA. This does not make the current Live client a VoA client. Go read the the information posted by, you know, the people who make these things like I told you to do in the first place.
There you will learn that a patch_VoA.conf was created (and is sometimes updated to work with the current live client) in the hopes that a stable non-changing client would be offered someplace such as Steam.

That doesn't completely make it a VoA client, you are right. However, there are UI changes in VoA that patched to the new (per se) client, which does make it a VoA client, because the UI changes are unique to VoA. There isn't a stable EQEmu version of the VoA client, which is what you are trying to get it out seems like.

dew1960, good luck I guess. You might not get far, but hey, there are some crazy people who have managed crazy things. I decided I wasn't going to play EQEmu until it's on VoA because I, too, love the new UI changes and such. Going back to the HoT Client was to much of a difference.

There also isn't a HoT client. It's Underfoot.

Wait, so are you guys telling me that NoPort's work on that client a few months ago isn't valid anymore?!?!?! I hope somebody told him that~

I hope VOA development has not died was hoping see it be a go

what, you do not keep an archived copy of every live client so you can play with whatever version you want? all by yourself?

I actually do keep a copy many clients

There are minor changes/bug fixes in the HoT client that weren't in Underfoot.

The client is Underfoot. Don't believe me, go here, do the steps, and see what it says: http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ClientVersions

The server doesn't know how to process connections from anything else.

The additional files, like zones, global load, etc. may be different in the client you are using, but that doesn't make it a HoT client as far as the server is concerned. If I took the Underfoot download from steam and pasted the missing files from a live client that doesn't make it a live client.