well see thats whats strange about this. when the error message comes after trying world.exe it says in it access denied for user 'eq'@'localhost' but here is my entire eqemu_config.xml and you can see that my username is set as root not eq. (password is starred out but ive triple checked that its correct by logging into mysql with it.) o and scrutinize my config file as much as possible to see if i screwed up anywhere else.
<?xml version="1.0">
<server>
<world>
<shortname>LEGITEST NON LEGIT</shortname>
<longname>DT'S LEGITEST NON LEGIT SERVER</longname>
<!-- Only specify these two if you really think you need to. -->
<!--<address>192.168.1.100</address>-->
<!--<localaddress>127.0.0.1</localaddress>-->
<!-- Loginserver information. -->
<loginserver>
<host>eqemulator.net</host>
<port>5998</port>
<account></account>
<password></password>
</loginserver>
<!-- Sets the shared key used by zone/launcher to connect to world -->
<key>some long random string</key>
<!-- Enable and set the port for the HTTP service. -->
<http port="9080" enabled="true" mimefile="mime.types" />
</world>
<!-- Database configuration, replaces db.ini. -->
<database>
<host>localhost</host>
<port>3306</port>
<username>root</username>
<password>*****</password>
<db>peq</db>
</database>
</server>