was reading the following post.
http://eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=17806
and got to thinking. if eqemu added a slight change, which would set a character status to 1/0 in sql wether they be onlin eor off, we can easily display online count just about anywhere by querying SQL.
after the core is edited we add the simple change to the sql characters table.
Code:
ALTER TABLE `character_` ADD `online` TINYINT( 2 ) NOT NULL AFTER `level` ;