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hey ya'll, EQEmu and EQW are workin' fine, my question is towards zones on these servers, how can I find out ahead of time (if possible) which zones are open and avail. so I can make a character that won't be dead far before I create it? Most problems I've noticed is that, when I make a char that cannot be create due to zone not being up, either EQW closes all together -or- I get ported somewhere else as my beginning start point...if ya'll can gimme any info bout' this, that would be nice, k thx~ bai~

There is no "available" zones. The 5 "zone servers" that boot5zones.bat loads up are sleeping, and awaken as soon as anyone logs in or zones. You can see which zones are running by typing #zonestatus in-game. This would list the zones and sleeping zones currently running. If you see 1 or more sleeping zones, then it is safe to zone. If there is no sleeping zones (all 5 are taken up by 5 differant zones), then you cannot zone to a zone not on that list or else it will boot you.

The problem with crashing/getting booted is probably not the lack of available zones, but is a known bug that was never fixed.

Remember, 0.3.4 was given out AS-IS and has several known crash/disconnect bugs. No eta on 0.3.5 (we need more coders!!)