Current emulators?

[mrea]

I hear that.. EQ2 has been my favorite so far. Far better than any other MMORPG that I have played. Its a shame that the EQ2Emu site is down though...

[MysticDeath]

Not down, just in a break... Gotta wait till Lethal and Image come back


My 2 cents: EQ2 had good things and bad things, just the bad things flew up after the good things ran out...

Pros:
1) Guild Houses
2) Tons of quests for Gear and levels
3) Awsome graphics
4) /pizza
5) Tradeskills and skills

Cons:
1) Ran out of quests after hitting 15
2) Forced to group with players
3) Solo Exp sucks
4) Most other players suck too
5) YOU lose exp when group dies
6) Cash was too hard to get after you run out of quests
7) Being forced to group becuase exp sucks otherwise and then still getting very little more becuase of newbies in the group, SUCKS
Once again, EXP SUCKS HIGHER UP.
9) once you run out of the low level quests, then next thing to do is to switch town, but wait you cant unless your under 18 levels (*gasp*) OR wait untill your level 40+ to do last quest for unlocking forgloks and fabled flowing black silk sash or w/e :(


one last con... Lags like a retard in a wheel chair trying to chase a dog.

[daemonreaver]

Heh.. I've ran most of the *working* servers you've listed...

Current *working* EMU/Server list can be found in one place: http://www.shardwire.org/

Currently, I run a few of the servers listed .. 1 DAoC server, 2 WoW servers, 3 L2 servers (all L2J), and trying to get EQEmu up n going (Can't test it, since I don't have an old patch version)

I may try a few of the other EMU's, but thus far, I've discovered that the binary-format (IE .exe file) servers run the best.. messing with java seems to go bad when it comes to idle sockets.

L2J (Lineage II/Javabased)..

• + OpenSource
• + Works with LIVE
• + Easy to play on server (Uses live, but have to edit HOSTS file)
• + It's a work in progress, many developers updating SVN
• - Tends to be very buggy (best uptime is around 4hours before the LoginServer goes nuts)
• + No large and bloated runtimes needed, just java.
• + Multiple World Server capable
• + Uses MySQL, any ver previous to 5 (4.0, 4.1.x)
• + Easy to write/find web portals that show character profiles, etc

WoWEmu

• - Not Quite OpenSource
• - Works with WoW 1.8.0, NOT LIVE
• + Easy to play on server (No speacial mod escept realmlist.wtf)
• + Folks have repacks for Live WoW
• + HIGHLY stable (so far around 45days uptime with 0 errors)
• - Does not use MySQL, DB is hacked same-header INI format. Uneditable, unreadable for PHP without alot of work.
• + Comes with a webserver, and some nice XML/XME's that you can IFrame in a web portal...

DAoC (Dawn of Light/Carpath)

• + OpenSource (Carpath isn't yet on SVN)
• + Works with LIVE version
• + Easy to play on server (simple launcher to start game.dll)
• + Special version called "Carpath" is the most stable and fully-featured.
• + Highly stable (around 23 days uptime, no errors)
• + Uses MySQL 4.1 - easy web portal/profiles
• + Written in C# (CSharp), not too hard to understand for Krylix and PHP writers.
• - Current DB is still somewhat lacking (mostly low-end tradeskill items on merchants, otherwise it's decently filled).

[sdabbs65]

DAoC (Dawn of Light/Carpath)

sucks up all my ram so I quit hosting it...
as far as the other I still host many of them for myself to enjoy of course.

[Teppen]

0-9
http://forum.ragezone.com/0-9/

A-G
http://forum.ragezone.com/g/

H-M
http://forum.ragezone.com/h-m/

N-S
http://forum.ragezone.com/n-s/

T-Z
http://forum.ragezone.com/t-z/

As new emu's found before added to list's above look here:
http://forum.ragezone.com/server-help-extra/

some others not included above (some dead, some not):
http://forum.ragezone.com/server-hel...ist-36957.html

the unofficial eAthena (Ragnarok Online Emu) mirror:
http://eamirror.skamfroj.net/

helbreath mmorpg emu (TXT & SQL versions):
http://www.helbreathss.tk/

more to come have to check my emu mmorpg bookmarks.

[pfunkman]

Originally Posted by daemonreaver

WoWEmu

• - Not Quite OpenSource
• - Works with WoW 1.8.0, NOT LIVE
• + Easy to play on server (No speacial mod escept realmlist.wtf)
• + Folks have repacks for Live WoW
• + HIGHLY stable (so far around 45days uptime with 0 errors)
• - Does not use MySQL, DB is hacked same-header INI format. Uneditable, unreadable for PHP without alot of work.
• + Comes with a webserver, and some nice XML/XME's that you can IFrame in a web portal...

I dont knwo what wow emu you used but with UWC 1.3.4 you can use 1.10 in fact wowemu hasnt been limited to 1.8 in a very very long time

and on top of that mangos is almost finished and that will be a full mysql run server for wow

considering there are over a dozen different types of wow emus runnin around might wanna specify.

i only wish eqemu ran half as good as wowemu

[Belfedia]

Originally Posted by pfunkman

I dont knwo what wow emu you used but with UWC 1.3.4 you can use 1.10 in fact wowemu hasnt been limited to 1.8 in a very very long time

Wowemu 1.10 is a perpetual hack of wow client, very unstable, and you don't have last client features like weather... The only real emulation working with 1.10 is mangos, but need many many many work for release it (alpha 0.5 now).

[mrea]

MysticDeath,

Most of your negatives about EQ2 are totally wrong. My quest book is almost full and I'm well over level 15. Also, I prefer to solo over grouping and thats how I went from like 18 to 28. You are never forced to group (solo instances are all over). Finally, you never lose xp... I don't have any idea what you're talking about with that.

Let me guess: You like WoW don't you?

[GeorgeS]

Belfedia - is the wowemu the same/similar one to WoWwow emu?

I have all the WoWwow emu beta files since the site appears to be gone.

GeorgeS

[Belfedia]

wowemu is the original emulation sell by wad
Wowow is a project (who continue on a nother website but it was secret i read).
Mangos is a totally open source emulator.

3 are differents.