That's right. That's why I have no intention of releasing a version of OpenZone that can read .WLD. The last thing I want or need is a bunch of losers trying to use it to cheat on EQLive (and I have no doubt that someone would). I'm actually quite surprised that no one has tried adding an importer and recompiling, but I guess that the kids who would try aren't old enough to know Delphi/Pascal :P (and don't have $1,000 to buy the professional flavor of Delphi, which the program requires).
OpenZone's purpose is and always was to allow people to create their own original content, not to corrupt EQLive. If someone tried using it to do that I'd be tempted to exhort SOE myself to shut them down.
Though I've said all this, I should warn anyone who might try that OpenZone really doesn't have the architecture to fully support everything in a .WLD and if at all possible I'd like to keep it that way to discourage anyone from trying. I expect that anyone who tries to rig an importer onto OpenZone *will* be detected, and as far as I'm concerned, anyone who tries cheating EQLive deserves whatever punishment SOE dishes out.
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