All publicity is good publicity.
Problem is all the classicness is in one server and one group of peoples hands. Rhyotte you are the type of person who is hurt the most by what p99 is doing. Classic eq is I feel in many of our eyes is a goal not as an end but as a means. If we had a fresh clean classic eq database and client that worked with eqemu then the rest is butter. You could make your awesome sequel to classic eq. But where it stands now one kid has a junky classic bike and likes to show it off since it is the only classic bike whereas the rest (yourself included) are still figuring out how to make the wheel. It is bad for p99 because all the people who could be working to make the bike amazing are stuck still figuring out how to make axles and bearings from scratch. It is just plain bad for the community and the broader everquest 1 movement in general. I'm not complaining p99 isn't releasing its source. I'm saying we need to man up and finally get the project of "classic" eq done right and open and therefore can expand on it. I'm hopefully going to start working with AdrianD here and the direction he has, I believe, is to use titanium client and just work on the database to get it as classic as possible. I think it is a great direction and probably exactly what p99 did. Once we get that done and open source my goal would be then to work on the client, heck maybe learn some C++.
We can all agree that everquest was the greatest mmo ever made and for us wannabe mmo developers it is the perfect template to start with. We just need a cleaned up working template. SoE mudflated their way to scraping the EQ ship for all it was worth at expense of immersion and keeping original zones and gear relavant, etc etc. What I feel we all care about in this discussion is cleaning the sh*t stained walls lol.
PS: P99...we're comin' for ya
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