New server in the works - 4 dedicated machines on Linux
 

Hello all

I am planning to setup eqemu on a few of my servers, running a central dedicated mySQL server.

What I need now is a good and clean database, and I also have a few questions.
Can mobs move yet? If not, will it be a pain to add it in once eqemu supports it?
Can mobs drop loot yet? If not, will it be a pain to add it in once eqemu supports it?

Be a pain as in, will I have to do it manually for each mob?

I have a good connection to my server location and will probably allow a few hundred players on if it doesn't require too many a zoneservers.

The world server will be running on a dedicated host, I will start with putting up two dedicated zone servers and one dedicated mysql server.

Once up, they will be there 24/7 if no problems happens, will be running cron to ensure all daemons are up as well.

What I need help with is a good database as I don't have the time to fix one myself, the time I have for this currently goes into making the server(s) work, and some help would be greatly appreciated.

This isn't a department store ;) You dont have many choices when it comes to databases, unless you want to go through the pain of rolling your own.

Grab the sql database from EQEmu-0.3.13-Win32.zip and source it into your newly created and empty eqemu database. Then grab EQEmu-0.3.13-DB-Addon.zip and source resource.sql (this will add lots of goodies to your db). Grab and source dbupdate.sql from EQEmu-0.4.0.1-Win32.zip and you will be gtg.

The last time I ran my emulator (a few wks ago) there are some error messages generated by the zone server when using this database, but it works and doesnt cause me crashes.