Let me try again. POP/luclin exp

[Xarslik]

Plain and simple, EQEmu is NOT warez. If packet information collected was intellectual property, then Magelo would not exist.

Warez, as you quoted, is "A term used by software pirates use to describe a cracked game or application that is made available to the Internet, usually via FTP or telnet, often the pirate will make use of a site with lax security" which EQEmu is not at all.

Now, if I go out and BUY EverQuest, and any expansions, I am BUYING the eqgame.exe file, the vpatch, kpatch etc files required to use the patcher. By buying these I have legal right to download new files from the patcher, regardless of whether or not I have an active account.

However if I were to get the EverQuest data somewhere else, THAT is warez. That is why we cannot allow any transferring of EverQuest files on the boards. They can only be obtained normally if you have BOUGHT the game.

We make the exception with eqhost.txt as it is simple textual data. It's not a binary file of any sort, someone who's never played EQ could make one. Also it is CLIENT-SIDE, and VI cannot prevent me from doing ANYTHING to ANY everquest file of mine on my machine.

In your reference to skriptkiddies and flamers, etc. The majority of these types of open source projects will end up with boards full of flames. It's just how it works. EQEmu does not have its own PR department. They're a bunch of coders + a few users who've learned the ins and outs of the program, and they see some random person come in and post some simple error answered 5 times already. Usually a very indescript message about it, asking for "hlep!!" like they deserve utmost priority because THEY have an error, and the coders are responsible for EVERYTHING wrong. They get pissed, I know I would. It's very annoying when you yourself know the information can be easily obtained, but people are being too lazy to use common sense to find it. On a side note, most of everything I've learned involving the Emu and really anything on the computer was from me experimenting and discovering what I could do on my own, what does what, and what doing soandso does to an error I'm having. I don't immediately go on the forums and ask for help.

Sorry for the semi-rant, got off on a limb. But hopefully you get the point.