I have to agree w/ MNJ somewhat. Verants work on EQ is when it was a great game , its not til SOE took over that the game started to go down hill. (although I dont think anyone mentioned Verant til he did)
Anyway this is an interesting idea , however if you use any part of EQ , client , zone files , music , etc .. you are violating the copyright. So then to get around this you would have to make an opensource version of the entire game without using any knowledge or source from the copyrighted game.
And as MNJ said I highly doubt anyone will be able to make anything similar to EQ now in under about 3 years - which by that time I think EQ will be dead completely and therefore useless.
What it comes down to is basically what your are invisioning and attempting to make is a completely new game that has some basic references to EQ but is in no way EQ. So all in all youd do better giving it a name that didnt include EQ(which is copyrighted anyway)
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