Scorp site down maby server

[johane]

Originally Posted by solid11

It's actually a no-lose situation. You just get a lawyer that will only charge you if you win the case(which you would), and Sony would be paying the attorney fees and court costs as part of the law suit. Like I said, no law has been broken(emu wise), not sure about S2K's situation with their patcher, but if Sony ever came after this site, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Maybe that's why they haven't so far....

As one of the 0.1% I'm sorry that I have to inform you of a few things...

No-Win-no-fee lawyers cost a lot. They don't charge you THEIR fee unless you win, but they do pass on all other charges, including:

Filing fees
Expert Witness fees
Travel costs for Expert Witness(es)
Accomodation for Expert Witness(es)
Barrister Fees
Expert Opinions
Lawyer's Travel fees
Lawyer's use of a whore when traveling
Lawyer's Medical costs for the dose of clap he got from the whore
etc etc etc

Basically, the lawyer never puts his hand in his own pocket for any expense - he puts his hand in YOUR pocket. And yes, it feels like he's molesting you.

How do I know this for a fact? I'm sitting here, typing on a collection of second hand parts cos I'm on a disability pension, because I don't have the $250,000 needed to sue some doctors for negligence using a "no-win-no-fee" lawyer. On a personal note, this sucks a lot. Thankfully I live in a socialist country so painkillers are cheap (3 boxes of oxy cost me $5.40, versus $270 that the government pays for it), and the government pays for my pain specialist (free vs $1200 per month).

Remember the Golden Rule - "Whoever has the gold makes the rules"

Edit:

Please note that the mention of the politics of my country are not in any way a derogatory comment about your country. In particular I will not heed any Americans who start to rant that "Socialism is back-door communism", as it isn't, but I wouldnt expect you to know that. A short list of Socialist Countries includes Sweden, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand and Eire.

[Windcatcher]

The custom zones Scorp and others worked on were extremely well done, and the one KhaN did is stunning. Whatever happens, we should make certain that all that work isn't lost.

[thorndruid]

I like the eqemulator, i even play on scorps server. But you have acknowledge a couple of things. The client for eqemulator is Sony's (they designed it, they developed it), all graphics are Sony's. Even the characters you make on live are theirs. What they are doing as I see is perfectly legal, i see that in the EULA of serveral online games now, NO EMULATORS. I know for a fact City of Heroes has it. Usually Sony and the rest of them don't care, until either some disgruntalled player of the free server snitches to them, which is what i think happened with scorps. While i see its not illegal to make an emulator (grey area) is definately illegal to play on one. There is actually an opensource developed from scratch mmporg called planeshift(check sourceforge), which has the client and server from scratch and its open source, if i was a programmer, i would be supportting that. I applaude all the work thats gone into the eq emulator but i think the dreaded big business spectre is looming over the project.

[Scorpious2k]

I would be willing to sell the server....

200+ populated zones
custom zones
player accounts
player characters
custom items
custom code (including the source)
quests
custom spells

wonder what it would be worth....

[stefann]

Someone Buy It, Please!!!

The C&D I recieved didnt mention the server at all, just the web site, which is in my name. So i wonder if everything would have been registered through dummy names if they could have done anything.

[cavedude]

Chuck U. Farlie would have been a great one.

[Firedancer]

Originally Posted by Scorpious2k

I would be willing to sell the server....

200+ populated zones
custom zones
player accounts
player characters
custom items
custom code (including the source)
quests
custom spells

wonder what it would be worth....

I aquired the server this week and it is up as Dedicated Server in test phase. It should be live by this weekend. (ETA October 2nd or so at the latest with Scorp database and S2k brought down).

http://eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19462 - Read about it here.

[sdabbs65]

Originally Posted by Firedancer

I aquired the server this week and it is up as Dedicated Server in test phase. It should be live by this weekend. (ETA October 2nd or so at the latest with Scorp database and S2k brought down).

http://eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19462 - Read about it here.

Yeah so did I ....
I didnt want his players tho you can have them...
only thing is he never gave me the source I paid for and expects me to beg for the rest...notgoing to happen.
I had 15 other people that wanted his server
sitting in IRC one night.
so he lost out cuz I sold them the 6.0 package that I have with
250 zones populated.
more Quest.
and his custom zones.
I was going to give him some of the sales but he screwed me out of the source. so I said screw it and kept them for myself.
My players bought it...Did yours ? I bet not.

[Firedancer]

Originally Posted by sdabbs65

Yeah so did I ....
I didnt want his players tho you can have them...
only thing is he never gave me the source I paid for and expects me to beg for the rest...notgoing to happen.
I had 15 other people that wanted his server
sitting in IRC one night.
so he lost out cuz I sold them the 6.0 package that I have with
250 zones populated.
more Quest.
and his custom zones.
I was going to give him some of the sales but he screwed me out of the source. so I said screw it and kept them for myself.
My players bought it...Did yours ? I bet not.

If you talk to scorpious he is not holding back the source from anyone as far as I know. If you just ask he will most likely not leave you with a database and something you cant customize. That was never the plan as far as I know. Sounds like a misunderstanding that you obviously dont have patience for. Sorry to hear you feel you got a bad deal. But if you have chosen to jump to flaming scorpious he may not be too happy you are trying to make him look bad here.

Its not my fight though. I wish you the best.