CKE PVE EQ CLASSIC server...

[sdtuasrt, MD]

This is Mouya's player. I still have the source that Jenco mailed me a few days before I quit in disgust.

I do not have the database, however.

[Throttle]

Anyone got Jenco's email or aim or something? I belive Tantalar was interested in running a server, so maybe we can salvage what's needed.

[sdtuasrt, MD]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Tantalar say that he never actually played during classic?

[Throttle]

I don't know, but I don't see how that's relevant in regards to whether or not he could host a classic server. He doesn't have to be the one who codes stuff, he can just launch the finished product, right? What we had was fairly playable, certainly better than nothing. I dunno.

[sdtuasrt, MD]

I'd say the best thing to do would just to load up the PEQ database, restrict it to original EQ zones, and then go through and just remove everything that wasn't classic/kunark/velious. Quests, like the newbie armor ones, those damn treants in GFaydark.

[Throttle]

How much adjustment is needed in regards to mob stats and such? I've never really looked into the PEQ database, but I remember that a lot of things were way off in terms of hp, spell lists, loot/spawn tables and so on.

[sdtuasrt, MD]

Loot tables are rather off and would have to be dramatically adjusted for many zones -- noobie zones in particular, as you'd have to remove a good deal of the drops as they're non-classic. Fortunately, though you might have 30 different points where a_skeleton spawns, all those generally use the exact same loot table, so you only have to change it once.

Everything is extremely easy to adjust -- it's just time consuming. The part that would need the most tweaking would be drop rates/spawn rates for some of the rarer creatures.

Another big part would be adding in drops that aren't there anymore.

[sdtuasrt, MD]

The problem really isn't editing the database. I have virtually nothing to due until the Fall Semester starts, and from the work I'd done on a previous, aborted attempt at a Classic Server (what I was working on before I found Jenco's), I could sanatise about 1 zone an hour (remove non-classic spawns and loot, balance drop rates, etc.) There are something like 50 zones in classic EQ, so that'd be about 6 or 7 days working 8 hours a day on it. Going through the quests and sorting out what is classic and what isn't would be annoying, but also easily doable -- it's just a large volume of tedium.

[edit]As I forgot to say, the problem is really obtaining hosting. I have an old desktop that I could put MySQL, Perl, and EQEmu on -- however I live in a residence with a roommate, and I don't think our cable connexion could handle more than a dozen or so players at once, and probably not more than half a dozen without tanking our outbound connexion.

[Throttle]

I'd help in any way I can if it results in a functional server. Do we have anyone dedicated enough to run it and, you know, keep doing so? Tantalar said he wanted to host a server, but since he knows nothing about it and has never done so before, I think we should try for a better solution first. I can barely run two instances of EQ on this piece of junk laptop, unfortunately. The best solution would be a commercial server line, but that costs money and stuff.