Wow...

[Merth]

It's all about baby steps, unless you're some sort of genius. For example, here's some baby steps one could take to for working with eqemu:

1. Learn HTML and make a web page for your eqemu server
2. Learn ASP or PHP and make the web page smarter
3. Learn SQL and make the web page remember things
4. Learn the EQEMu DB, and start displaying character stats on web page
5. Learn C# and make a third party tool for editing character stats in the DB
6. Learn basic C and start tweaking things here and there in EQEMu
7. Learn advanced C and start messing around with packet data
8. Learn basic C++ and start tweaking EQEMu architecture
9. Learn advanced C++ and start designing EQEMu architecture
10. Learn threading and network code and start tweaking how EQEMu handles clients
11. Learn basic assembly and begin optimizing and debugging EQEMu
12. Learn advanced assembly and start wearing shirts bearing encryption algorithms