Gonna try to reel this one back in...
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Originally Posted by KingMort
Would very much like to work out a special portal to transport the player from POK (or some other zone) to your world... Directly !!!
Without the assistance of the Login Server.. No offense Eqemu Community and Doodman the loginserver pwns... Just saying I think the servers would unite more with some kind of a portal...
Imagine you click on the Storm Haven portal or the PEQ portal and Instantly transported not to the server select screen , but to the Character Select Screen of the server that you clicked on.......
I am not a Coder.. But please consider this as an option or a possibility?? I think it would go far to help every server to Unite with one common zone used for Teleporting to other worlds...
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I could see this being possible, albeit a little complicated to accomplish...
Creating an in-game portal is easy enough (think door/NPC + quests). We would then need a quest command that would send the character's info to the other server. That would probably require some additional functions to both push the info & receive it on the other end.
The hard part would be tricking the client into switching to a different server, either via zoning or camping to character select. I honestly think it would be best to be handled during zoning, if possible, since different zone servers can, in theory, have different IP addresses & ports. That way, the client still thinks it's on the same (world) server, so the UI config files don't change. I think the only hard part would be making item #'s match up properly between servers, so your
Cloth Cap doesn't become an
Ancient Frostreaver (ouch?), etc.
If we could combine it with inter-server chat via the in-game chat channels (hosted via IRC?), you could essentially link every server together to create one huge community. Now wouldn't that just be hawt?
