[Tegila]

I've never played om eqemu but I had over 1000 days logged on my main char on live, and I haven't played in about 5 years (a good year or so before Daybreak took over, and after preorder for whatever was after RoF, but before its launch). Have been greatly missing EQ lately, especially on satellite internet. With the Daybreak swap since then, several computer swaps and location swaps, as well as swap to windows 10 since then, one thing or another has kept me from logging in live to check it out, especially all the patching I'd need to do since last I played, so Emu with no expansions to catch up on and without the headache of catching up on 5 years and teh changes in the dev co itself, and of course the F2P aspect without playing on TEST, this seems the perfect answer to my problems.

Question 1: Not all servers have a concise description- What all servers are open or not open to join (public/private), allow boxing or hydras, AND are working in what to me would be modern eq..HoT to RoF era? I know I found 1 or 2 but I'm not real sure how ..normal..the gameplay is on them as they sound niche, so looking for a list that fits above description. Oh, and it must be swarm and headshot capable, not nerfed as I am born and bred SK of the Post OoW preNerf era lol, and I like to play with my ranja too..

My second question is for the near but not immediate future: How does one go about opening their own server? Are all the files avail to dl then you just customize? etc, Are they hosted at home, or with eqemu somewhere? and lastly, is it possible to host an eqemu LAN server? This one is especially of interest to me due to excruciating ISP in a house full of gamers. I am in the process of building a home server as it is, so if a LAN server is doable I'd be greatly interested, at least 4 of the 5 people over 12 in the house would probably play, and the 6yrold is older than my daughter was when she first solod in EQ, but is without her own computer or half the maturity lol.

Not a server question, but jsut quick dirty generic: Does eqemu run the same, better, or worse than Live, on the same computers for most people? Other than things like bugs and server hiccups. Is it a cleaner running game? Can you import layout/ui settings etc (not custom ui) from live if your settings are all RoF and you use the RoF client? or wont they work.

Thanks in advance guys.
Tegila Dsanguineroja of Saryrn-Bertox...and now homeless.

edit: sorry if any of these are silly questions. back when I played live and heard about eqemu etc I'd heard it was all kinda..different? like every object/npc/component got changed ever so slightly in name/appearance because they had to, but from screenshots I see here, that doesn't appear to be the case at all, so i'd think ui/settings etc would transfer from rof live. the hotkeys/buttons etc layout on my SK's screen took hours to update every expansion for new spells and aas and clickies, and I'd never be able ot fully rebuild it from scratch.