Underfoot Release

[Rogean]

MQ2 Would work great for collecting information on eqlive, just someone would need to create the plugin for it to do so in a format to easily import it into eqemu.

[cavedude]

Originally Posted by Rogean

MQ2 Would work great for collecting information on eqlive, just someone would need to create the plugin for it to do so in a format to easily import it into eqemu.

Indeed. MQ2 can do a lot of useful things, people just need to get passed the idea that it is only a cheater tool.

[wolfwalkereci]

Originally Posted by cavedude

Indeed. MQ2 can do a lot of useful things, people just need to get passed the idea that it is only a cheater tool.

wish more people thought like that.

[Secrets]

Seeds of Destruction/Secrets of Faydwer on Steam seems to not have been updated since 2008, I just downloaded and the eqgame matches ShowEQ from 2008 at seeds of destruction release. Do you guys think it is possible that we could use Seeds of Destruction's client with some structure hacking?

Right now, I checked the opcodetable.h dumps from SEQ 2007-2008 expansion releases, and they appear to be exactly the same values, not sure why that is, or how much structs have changed but hey, it's worth a shot. I am going to take a look at it later tonight when the rest of the files are done downloading.

[trevius]

If we were going to bother with that, we might as well jump all of the way to Underfoot and skip SoD all together. But again, I really don't know how good of an idea it is to put a lot of work into something that is a digital download only and could potentially be changed at any time. That would leave only illegal options for obtaining the proper Underfoot client, which is something I would like to avoid at all costs.

[Secrets]

Originally Posted by trevius

If we were going to bother with that, we might as well jump all of the way to Underfoot and skip SoD all together. But again, I really don't know how good of an idea it is to put a lot of work into something that is a digital download only and could potentially be changed at any time. That would leave only illegal options for obtaining the proper Underfoot client, which is something I would like to avoid at all costs.

Well, right now, the only way people are going to get an expansion past SoF is digital distribution, and I highly doubt it's going to change all of a sudden since it hasn't been updated since 2008. It's kind of a double-edged sword, because we're not going to get a box set (to our knowledge), but at the same time we'll never have anything past SoF if we don't look into alternate means of legally getting the client files.

Hell, EQ2Emulator works on steam, that's where I got this idea from. They support various versions, though, too.

The reason I think it never will change is because SOE uses the launchpad to patch the game to the live version after you download the files off of steam, and thus, unless they send a whole new client to the Steam Store for the hell of it (they haven't for ANY of their games, other than to re-release with new expansions/sets) it's probably not going to go away.

[trevius]

Well, if someone can break the new encryption for logging into the LS and then get Rogean to patch the LS code to allow the new clients, maybe I will start looking into working on Underfoot from Steam. But, there is no reason to do any work on it until the LS at least works for it.

[OscarGrouch05]

Originally Posted by Rogean

MQ2 Would work great for collecting information on eqlive, just someone would need to create the plugin for it to do so in a format to easily import it into eqemu.

i have a friend that programs in visual basic.. if that would help.
if your talking about maken a plugin would need list of dlls to call
up etc . every dll has has it's own operation. i have a program
that i can look inside of dll and see the codes inside.