A suggestion to help with change control on EQEmu
 

I know sometimes it can be confusing to find out what is the most current version of the emu and DB a server OP "should" be running and it can be equally confusing for a person who wants to connect to a server to play to know when he/she should or shouldnt patch to "live". Couple this with the mediocre search engine that the forum uses to find "relevant" posts with simple "human error" and it's little wonder people are patching to live when they shouldn't, breaking their connection to emu until the poor developers can "catch up".

I propose adding a window somewhere on the www.eqemulator.net page that says "Our current released version of the server is 5.6 and it supports EQ live patches up until April 16, 2004. Do not patch past this date our you will break your client's connectivity to the EQEMU servers and you will be on your own." Of course, this will only be effective as logn as people will trust that this little window is the definitive, straight from the horses mouth volume of gospel for current information regarding patching, so it would have to be kept up to date as the who front webpage usually is.

Maybe some sort of compatibility chart would be good showing which patch versions are compatible with each release version. :)

I'd be afraid that a compatibility chart would lead to too many people asking the forbidden question.

Edit: Though a front page current version would be great to see. Preferably both on the front page and at the top of the forum list screen.

I was thinking about this tonight while having trouble falling asleep. I was going to write a php include file somewhere along the lines of:

Should you patch to
EQ Live? NO

If you patched before
2004.05.25
you can play on
servers running:
[5.7-DR3]

to put at the bottom left column of the first page.

govtcheeze: that would be nice, prolly reduce the number of questions on why they cant get on...but then again, a lot of people dont seem to know how to read before asking :?