Hi Trevius,
Strangely enough my very length reply to your post was not posted.. so I'll be brief this time around:
I had actually started out with
old clients and was trying to attain older EQEmu source so I could study the Emulator in it's infancy. Which is exactly what I intend to do.
With all the old source I can now compare for example 4.4 to 4.3 code and see things like:
- Problem solving methods used by the EQEmu team
- Solution to problems after I study the problems
- See how the Emulator developed
- Understand the work involved in contributing to the Emulator
- Understand the direction of the project
- Understand more what is provided to me for free !
I've been a part of this community for years and years now, but I finally decided it's time to 'know where it all comes from' so that's what I've set out to do. I hope that by understanding where this project has been from the back-end up to now I can one day actually contribute to it or help those in need of knowledge.
I'm still working on quests/database things for the PEQ release, and I still maintain for study and development my own MiniLogin server that's 'modern'. Call me crazy... it is after all true..
Kindest Regards~~