EQEmu Future - RELAX
 

People need to mellow out a bit about recent events and the future of the EQEmu. Yes, it was a big hit on the community and got some people in a panic, and even created trials and tribulations for some, but there were underlaying conditions specific to the server directly involved. 20 years ago, Sony shut down an EQEmu server because of issues with that particular server at the time and it may happen again in future years.

Sony/Daybreak/DarkPaw, they hold all the rights to anything "Everquest", but they've known about the EQEmu for many years and kindly ignored it, letting the community do it's thing. But Daybreak is a business, created to make money and make profits, just like any other business. They will always do what they need to, in protecting their interests. If you walked through my backyard, innocently passing through, I will ignore you. But if you disrespect it, you're going to get shut down real quick. That's reality. My backyard is my property and nobody has any rights to it.

Putting it bluntly, when shit happens, sure it stinks, but instead of plugging your nose and running away, clean it up and rebuild, just like they did with the World Trade Centre. EQEmu is not going anywhere, anytime soon.

Anything we can do to help? I noticed the docs are gone and the Discord channel is basically gone.

The biggest blow was all the documentation. It was more beneficial for new people just starting their journey in creating a server, as well as the "installer" that made it easy for them. I never got into the discord, but that was another support artery for people. I read somewhere that another new discord was started by somebody, but all the documentation on the old one, I assume is gone too.

The EQEmu source code and quests on github hasn't had any commitments for 3 weeks, so not sure if any developers are going to continue with that. But they have windows and linux binary releases on there as well. (for those not compiling their own).

Many people have moved to a new discord called New Tanaan. https://discord.com/invite/9yd6tg9msD
That should be an invite link as it was posted on discord. If not you can still go to the old discord, scroll through the messages and find a link there as well.

The documentation and tooling are being preserved as much as possible.

https://docs.eqemu.dev/

https://gitlab.com/TheGrandLibrary

Oh, I didn't know it was in the works, that is awesome. Thank YOU! Maybe we'll get lucky and somebody will update the links on this site. :)