How complete is the DB?

[pfyon]

Re: Problems with mobs agroing through walls/ground and zoning in the middle of nowhere. That sounds like you don't have the maps set up properly on your server

Otherwise, that's about the state the game was on live. Keep in mind, everquest came out in 1999 and was one of, if not the first of its kind (3d fantasy mmo). If you're expecting the level of polish that modern MMOs have, everquest isn't the place to find it.

Some races had more newbie friendly starting zones, but on a whole, the game was about exploration and discovery. Everquest did not hold your hand and tell you where to go (or not go) next, you learned the hard way by dying.

I'm not saying hand-holding or telling you where to go is a bad thing, just different than what EQ was about. Part of the reason EQ isn't as big now as it used to be is due to the above issues and difficulty for new players.

[Pandaman]

Not only that, but Everquest was a progression game. The quests, weren't.. exactly spectacular, and even on live, were pretty horrendous. It was a grinding game by far.

Also, if you're just playing the game for the first time, regardless of any game, and you are given the powers to port around, of course you won't know what to do.

My opinion? Go to someone else' server, and play there.

Learn the game, and then mess around as a GM. Otherwise, you won't know what fun stuff you're missing.

[trevius]

It sounds like you are playing EQEmu using the SoF client. If that is the case, then there are quite a few of the old zones like Nektulos that got updated, and the PEQ database was made for the old version. That is why you zoned into a zone in the middle of nowhere and even after porting around, everything was out of place and zone lines didn't work. Because, essentially, the server thought you were supposed to be in the old version of the zone before it was updated. I think there are a few ways around issues like that one by renaming certain files or whatever, but it isn't really a good example of how polished the Emulator is.

The emulator is actually fairly complete up through the PoP expansion and even some beyond. But yeah, you might want to try out playing on other servers to see how you like them before making any final judgements on how far along the emulator is. In many cases, it is very close to Live, and is actually very playable.