While somewhat related to this idea, I would rather propose this instead of a portal to another server:
Special EQEMulator Community event.
Server Ops would get together, share the custom zones they made, and tweak them to the difficulty of their server. This would mean, all servers participating in this event will post a custom zone that they have worked on before. A server op would download this zone, tweak it, and make sure it fits the criteria of balance on that person's server. I have shared one of my zones with Scars of Amerous tweaked for their server, and I was thinking that perhaps Storm Haven could use the zone, Raid Addicts, and basically whoever wanted it. While it destroys the purpose of original content, it also adds a level of a feeling that you are sharing to a community, instead of directly competing with a server. I've seen too many servers have people rebel and start their own server, because they disagreed with policies that the server op put forth for them. However, if they could find it in their hearts to take 30 minutes to export a zone from MySQL using the filter tool (provided you organize in that manner) and share with the other people in the community, that would bring us closer together in the end.
While I don't expect anyone to go through with this idea, I will say this: I am willing to give up the same zone I gave to Scars to the communities' server ops if they are willing to go through by handing something out in return.
All in all, it would be pretty neat if people came together in this manner, whether it be via KingMort's portal idea or this. I do not mean to hijack a thread, I mean to add on in constructive thinking.
ps: To clarify on what I mean by 'balancing it for your server', that would mean you put in the loot and factions yourself, while the scripting and spawning of NPCs would already be done. It would be a dream to see this place working as a community in not only the database + coding livelike side, but in the custom code side as well, a la eqbots.
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