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Originally Posted by sfisque
i have to agree. on a whim, i tried building a WoW emu server, and after trying two different avenues and coming up empty, i realized eqemu is light years ahead of other emu projects.
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Actually, I have to disagree here. No offense to those still maintaining EQEmu, but the WoW Emulators (
http://www.emupedia.com - Antrix, specifically) have so much effort behind it, and it supports
current client so people are not having to maintain multiple copies of their clients just to try different emulators. I feel the WoWEmu dev community is far more advanced than EQEmu merely by numbers involved. There are 100's of developers world-wide that tweak, mod, enhance, both the core and database. We have what, 4 people here that do it, and only when they have a chance? Again, no offense meant. It's the reality that this game (EQ) is fairly out dated, and only die hards like us are interested in it anymore. WoW is a phenomenon like no other... you have to admit that. And I don't even like the game, personally.
Example, I have never played a single minute of WoW. But, I took the Antrix source, load the project into VS2005, hit compile, loaded my DB, and played. Within 2 hours. Now, I host a private server (added to my collection muhaha) and love it. Btw, if you think the EQEmu community has some retarded members... try wading through the WoWEmu support forums. Holy Gods, that's painful.
Editorial Time:
What the EQEmu community is lacking is "interest". Sure there's dozens of newbies that come along monthly that want to setup a server. They beg for help, but most point them to the Wiki, which is a disaster in itself. Thank god for the newer document projects like Techguy's and a few others.
EQEmu needs current client compatibility. Why doesn't it? Because the only brave souls willing to keep maintaining the code do not have the time (or interest) in "chasing live". This is an effect of there being so few devs involved. If we had 100 devs world-wide, chasing live would be effortless. So do not blame our dev team for halting compatibility at Titanium.
EQEmu *does* need a repack, but the old schoolers are so arrogant they think Joe-Admin should learn how to disect IP packets just to earn
the privilege to run their precious emulator. This thing is so out-dated and incomplete, it's laughable to make people waste so much time
learning when they can try, and quit, all within a few days instead of months of begging for help. Again, thanks for Cavedude's original server pack for attempting to make things easier - but it could be taken one step further by making it a completely pre-configured, brainless, effortless package that you unzip, run, and login.
Anyway, the point here is that I feel this game (in general) is dying, because compared to some modern games, it's pretty ugly. I love Everquest, and I will probably play the live game until they shut down the last server. But with WoW, EQ2, Vanguard, and a few other emulators cropping up, this project either needs a jump-start, or it's just not going to be worth anyones time anymore.