Zone.exe, and boot5zones.bat?

[yaple17j]

Ok noob question I guess, but what does boot5zones.bat do? Is it really only running 5 zones of eq or are the zones all ran from these 5 main zones? If its only running 5 zones how would I make it boot more of them?

Forgot to mention that I found eqemu after I had already patched eq client so I cant log into it and find out for myself else I would :(

[Lurker_005]

boot5zones just starts 5 copies of zone.exe with the proper paramaters.

zone.exe will run what ever zone is required, then go back to sleep when not needed. You could run as many copies of zone as you wanted (and computer could handle) but they all must use different ports.

[yaple17j]

Just to get an idea. I want to host a server for like 10-15 people I should be running at least that many zones just in case they all go to different zones. Should also add say 2-5 incase someone logs on just for the heck of it. Would also have to open up more ports on my router for each added zone. What type of hardware are some of you running and how many zones do you keep running?