Greetings - question, if I may

[Ivanovich]

Thank you for your responses. I apologize, I was looking at it from a server operator's point of view. I'd like to run a server, and want to understand whether or not the game will be enjoyable to players - insofar as the idea of the game mechanics (fighting, questing) are not broken.

Thanks again.

[zelgar]

To my knowledge, and on every server that I've played on, almost everything works wonderfully. There are some servers that have higher combat rates, ones that quests don't work on, etc. If you have an understanding of Perl, you can probably get quests working, combat works as is upon compile (or starting the binaries if you're using Windows).

In short, The EMU can do everything that Live can, but is more customizable to what you want as a server op.

[steelrat]

Originally Posted by Ivanovich

Thank you for your responses. I apologize, I was looking at it from a server operator's point of view. I'd like to run a server, and want to understand whether or not the game will be enjoyable to players - insofar as the idea of the game mechanics (fighting, questing) are not broken.

Thanks again.

I run an 060DR3 server... and, from my players of view. everything works very well..(at least thats the feedback I get from them).. There IS a lot of work both getting a server running, and keeping it running, not to mention the quests, populating the zones, and the almost endless fiddling just to get a slightly better this or that..
If I was you, I'd go for DR3, the guards work, there are very few bugs..the whole thing runs almost straight from the word go..you can be sure your players won't be disappointed!! (mine weren't).

Good luck..

[Aonelyn]

eqemu is great..but people who work on live actually get payed to work on it, this is done out of everyones good will.