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Originally Posted by Congdar
I was wondering why you went for the Secrets of Faydwer expansion pack instead of the new Seeds of Destruction that also is a complete all expansions package.
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The reason to use SoF instead of SoD is because as far as I have read and heard, SoD is a digital download only. That means you patch to get it. Basically, it means that we would be trying to keep up with Live in order to use SoD unless we picked a certain patch revision and stuck with it, but that brings up legal issues since there is no way for new players to get an old patch legally. And since SoD is digital download only, then I think it is fairly safe to assume that all future expansions probably will be as well.
It was all of that that pushed me to finally decide that this was our last option as an upgrade and it was time to start working on it :P
Also, another reason is that EQLive apparently does something new with their Login Server and will not connect to the server list of EQEmu anymore. I am sure we could fix that if we had access to the source code of the Login Server, but that isn't much of an option. Plus, chasing live is way more work than anyone around here have time for. Otherwise, it would be a million times easier for me to get the emu working with EQLive than it is to get it working with SoF.
I think SoF is a pretty huge upgrade and will be worth all of the work. We are getting almost 2 years of updates over what Titanium has.
BTW, I am going to try to get the zonechange and requestclientzonechange structs working tonight. That way, at least once you guys get your copies of SoF, you will be able to zone around to check out the new zones, and spawn the new races and fun stuff like that. Those structs may depend on clientpositionupdate being correct though, so no guarantees. I was having a blast last night just checking out the new global races. Having a global dragon race is just awesome, and he looks great too! Oh, and I will update #race and #fixmob to both go up to 600 or whatever I find the max race to be. I know it is well into the 500s now at least.