Question on General Server Development
 

All the forums say this is not a support forum, so I guess this is the best place to post:

I don't know enough C++ to understand the server (I'm mainly a Java/C# kinda guy =P) but I still have questions about the server and was wondering if one of the dev's could possibly help me. How many threads does the server create? One per user? Can you give me a general overview of the process chain between clients and the server. An example would be the server loops listening for the client, client connects, new thread is made for the client. Client logs in to server. etc etc. How did the developers learn C++? Which version of MSVS do the dev's use? Is it developed mainly on windows or mainly on linux? What all is stored on the db and what is stored in memory?

Some answer here : http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage
But not all you want.

Thankyou, my friend answered some of my questions, but I still got one.

How does the server sync two people trying to pickup one item?

all logic is in a single thread. the rest of them are just IO bound threads.