Alright, there is a similar post about 6 pages back, however, Spike's guide is old. I used the tutorial at
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16120 to setup my server. It all works perfectly until i try to zone into the game after creating a character.
I glance at my server's monitor and zone.exe has a good 30-40 lines of "Error loading NPCs from database. Bad Query."
It will then close completely, or once in a while, just drop the client and return zone.exe to the previous state(no zones loaded).
I used the PEQ Kunark RC1 along with the DBUpdate that was listed in the guide.
I also tried, with the exception of of the 5.8 classic db, the steps listed in the reply a few posts below the guide(on a 100% fresh db).
Both installs return the NPC errors.
(and yes I changed db.ini to use the second db)
Any help/info/anything would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.