[a_Guest03]

Seriously, my lungs can't take this. :lol: Anyway, the zip thing is out. patcher was an attempt to force people to be legitimate, by proving that they owned the files that were being upgraded. The problem with a zip is that you can't control it. I keep bitching every time I see that eqfix.zip floating around. If I were an admin, I'd issue one last major warning, ban all posters after that, and edit the links out. Call me hardcore, but I don't screw around with that stuff.

Patcher was never a good idea, and I shared TC's views about it. It was created to temporarily fix a problem, and that problem was that eqemu versions were released more slowly than eqlive.

When I started following this project, it was December of 2001, and I lurked for a long time. I remember waiting forever to use any eqemu after a patch. At one time, it was months and months at a time that you couldn't use eqemu. And I was content to wait, and read the changelogs in anticipation of the next great thing.

It's now 6/03. If I had to wait 3 months again, it wouldn't be a hassle. The fact of the matter is that there are punks out there who want a solution in 6 minutes. 6 friggin' minutes. I understand that there are outliers to every population, both good and bad, and that these people are destined to exist. I don't have a problem with that. It seems that a lot more people (not relatively, just numerically) are in that bad group, and it wears on the original devs, who haven't had as much time to recruit the good group. There are a lot of great people in eqemu. There are a lot of new people who need their hands held. These people are just fine in my book. But the people who have their hands held and demand immediate solutions to their immediate needs over and over, and don't follow protocol and then try to assault their helpers, well... they deserve some punishment. I say that if Hogie wants to make an example of the one that pissed him off, it's his place to do so, to ensure that others understand the consequences. It's understandable that rumours start about negative events (that eqemu wanted to charge you to use it... that's a misinterpretation of Hogie's frustrated ramblings). All I ask is that you keep your minds sharp, and try to understand the motivations of the leaders of the project. They do not attempt to harm you. They do not attempt to charge you. They only want everyone to have a good time. So try to have a good time, and stay out of trouble. Be patient. Good things will come.