PacketBot
 

It would be neat for some sort of dev, or someone who has the knowledge of creating EverQuest Packetloggers, (Lyenu) to create some sort of PacketBot.

You can use account name and password and it starts up EverQuest with EQW, or possibly some sort of way to downsize it, then it shows the program collecting the info.

I don't know how packetloggers work, but if possible make it search or do what you are looking for, that way it'd be a lot easier to get the packets you want, we want, or you need.

It would be very possible to do something like this. PacketCollector runs in the same manner that the PacketHandling for EQEmu does. All packets that are validated as EQ packets are sent to a "HandlePacket" function, and in there you have a switch. You can do "case ZoneSpawn" or whatever it is you want to do to the packets. Although, I did get it to decompress/unwrap the new packets, so that should help a lot (it puts "*** Decompressed/Unwrapped Packet" if it came from one).

If something like this came, and had a certain part of the program which listed what the devs are looking for or something of the sort that listed what to packet, I would definately help now that i've settled down into EQ again.

What you could do is have a file up on a website that has a list of the current opcodes that need to be collected. Then you could tell the packetcollector to download that opcode list and make them the current filters. Then any opcodes it finds could be submitted when the packetcollector is closed to an FTP perhaps? in the name format of date-time.txt? Who knows, would be interesting to look into it though...

i have no knowledge as of now to do something like a packetlogger right now.. but yea, would definately help when it came to packetlogging.

Yeah, the way I learned was by looking over packetcollector and seeing how it works. Another good idea would be to look over how EQEmu deals with packets. The backbone of packetcollector actually uses a lot of the common directory in EQEmu, so they're very simular... But hmmm, I will definetly look into this idea and see what else I can think of for it