Eqemulator's great! Have a quite a few questions

[Sourdough35]

I really like this thread, after stumbling across it in search of some fairly specific information about databases and current compatibility. It raises a couple additional questions for me, though. I hope they haven't been answered elsewhere, but I definitely searched long enough for them.

This might gethe thread locked or get me banned, cause from what I understand, the community is getting intolerant of people asking about current patch compatibility, but hopefully y'all can see that this is a slightly different take on the matter. If minilogin doesn't actually create a server then can I use it to play alone on my own computer if I have the most recent patch? I don't really need to play on a server with other people.

Secondly, in terms of the databases out there, I understand that new quests can only be made with PERL, but do any databases recreate the eqlive world? If so, how complete are they up through the first couple expansions? (velious) If I had to guess, I'd say that there's been more than ample time to collect enough info for a fairly complete world, but you guys would know better than I.

Thanks for all your help and hopefully not for flaming me on this one.

[Malignus Wingnut]

Originally Posted by Sourdough35

If minilogin doesn't actually create a server then can I use it to play alone on my own computer if I have the most recent patch?

No. I think you misunderstood what minilogin does. It creates a login server on your home newtwork, however it's code is as of the same date as the official login server code therefore they both have the same compatability issues.

Originally Posted by Sourdough35

Secondly, in terms of the databases out there, I understand that new quests can only be made with PERL, but do any databases recreate the eqlive world?

Well I had to wipe my computer in its entirety about a month and a half ago. I hadn't backed up my database in a while (like 8 months...heh yeah i know stupid), and I ended up losing all the work I had put into my database.

At the time i had full PoP, LoY, and GoD accuracy including quests and events (Excluding high end GoD zones because I haven't raided there in EQLive). I also had implemented some experimental stuff in Anguish, I came up with some interesting little tricks in perl to make events more challenging, anyways. After losing more than 8 months of greuling work I decided to take a break from eqemu for a while. I will eventually continue work on my database but not for a while. As of now the most complete database that is compatable with the current version of EQEmu is the PEQ Velious? I'm not sure if that was released yet, I haven't been around in a while.

[Sourdough35]

Wow. That really blows that you had that much great stuff just go "bye-bye." Good luck on reconstructing it, my friend. So does that mean the velious DB is more or less a complete recreation of the live servers up until that expansion? If that's the case, that's awesome and I can't wait till the compatibility issues are resolved.

[Malignus Wingnut]

The only thing about compatability is that every release they tend to change the way the database is read, in what order, or new columns are added so you need to add them or it wont load correctly, the only challenge is converting an old one to new standards. I converted the 5.7 DR2 PoP release database to begin with.

[qbvbsite]

From what i read it looks like there are other databases for EQEmu but are just not compatible (ex. like the 5.7 DR2 PoP) if this is true can you point me to the place i can download these DB's so i can convert them to the existing PEQ Kunark DB. Thanks in advance.

--James

[Belfedia]

/em raise his hand !!!
I like it too

[qbvbsite]

If i do get the PoP DB and convert it successfully i'll be sure to post is on the boards for everyone to download..

--James