yeah that the problem - doing your own source changes puts a tremendous overhead on server maintenance.
and every time you want to stay up to date with Emu source improvements, you have redo all these changes manually and hope you don't break something.
Not to mention my one extra table, allows fine tuning of XP curve on the fly, without the need to ever touch the source and screw something up, given our primary devs would be willing to implement this feature
My C coding skills are not at the level where I would feel comfortable, of running my own source, hence I am totally dependent on official Emu devs