Thanks Uleat.

I do have a Titanium install in a different folder for P99, haven't really played there in a while. I play pretty much entirely on Peq.

Sof works pretty well, there are a few bugs that are somewhat annoying, I can deal with that but it has really been gnawing at me that I am missing out on some extra stuff.

I may just kill some time back on live and check in here every so often for a readily available client obtainable by legal means, I know this stuff takes some time.

I'm wondering if/when eq has reached a point in its life where it makes business sense for them to support the emu community. The project has been around for a decade now and isn't going away. They might benefit financially by releasing a stable emu friendly client to the market.

That would almost certainly never happen. Though, I do agree that they are missing a potential possibility for a decent financial benefit by not considering something new and similar to EQEmu. I think they could fairly easily put a system in place that would allow normal players to run their own customized servers similar to EQEmu, but being supported and hosted by SOE. If they do it right, they could possibly make a ton of money while letting other people do nearly all of the creative work for them. I think it could be ground-breaking and really push MMOs into their first big jump of Next-Gen games since MMOs were first created. There are games out there that try similar ideas, but it isn't nearly on the level that I would have in mind (which would be similar to how EQEmu works).

That is the route they are hinting with EQ Next now. Though it has been scrapped and restarted from scratch at least once.