Can't login with char into a world...

[samandhi]

ok... im not sure if i patched live today, but say i did just for argument sake. if i reinstaled eq on my pc would that let me play?

No... See you have to be patched UP TO a certain version of the EQLive... Let's take the EQEMu server version 0.5.3 for instance... If you wanted to be able to play on any of those servers, you would have to be patched (the game client) from the dates of Jan 24, 2004 up to, but NOT including, Feb 10th, 2004.... For version 0.5.5 you would need to be patched from Feb 10th up to, but NOT including today, in order to play on those servers...

Simply reinstalling EQ doesnt give you ANY patches at all, therefore you would not be able to play on ANY version of EQEMu...

This is the purpose behind the "Make a backup directory of EQ, so that if you patch and it breaks EQEMu, you will still have that one to fall back on" statement (which is NOT word for word, but you get the idea)....