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Originally Posted by kaos00723
EQemu is slowly dieing because of this and several other factors in my opinion.
For one, nobody can get a client that works anymore without torrenting it.
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This is a fairly valid complaint right now. Though, Titanium and SoF are still available via legal means, but not always very easy to find available.
However, I am pretty sure that 80% or so of the people playing EQEmu over the years got their clients illegally, including Titanium. We do not condone or support illegal clients on this site, but that doesn't mean we are blind to the fact that people do get them.
Hopefully at some point we will be able to come up with a solution to the lack of a legal and fairly current client.
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Originally Posted by kaos00723
Database updates are also far and few in between. What is there, 1 db update per year lately?
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This is only relevant to the PEQ website, team and server. Even though the PEQ DB is the primary DB used by EQEmu, we are not really directly affiliated. Of course, we are all very thankful to the work done by the PEQ team and the fact that they are willing to share their hard work for the better of the community.
The majority of the population resides on a few specific servers. PEQ is one of those servers, but most of the rest do not rely on PEQ updates. The custom servers like EZ and THF doesn't do PEQ updates. Project 99 runs on its own DB and doesn't do PEQ updates either. This leaves a few smaller servers that rely on new content from PEQ to help maintain their server population. As far as big servers go, I think PEQ is the main one that relies up PEQ updates, and they get theirs on a steady basis, as they aren't limited to when they do releases for the public.
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Originally Posted by kaos00723
No one has ever come out with a CMS to integrate the server to a website.
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I am not really sure what you are referring to here. Plenty of servers have added modules to their CMS to integrate server stuff into their site (server uptime, player counts, player lists). People have also made tools such as the Magelo and Alla Clones that help integrate servers into websites. Maybe you have an example of another game that does exactly what you are referring to.
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Originally Posted by kaos00723
GoD isn't even complete yet, the db is nearly 10 YEARS behind live now.
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Again, this is a PEQ specific point. It is only relevant to a handful of servers. Though, new servers heavily benefit from the newer content even if they plan to customize it. Still, for the most part it is PEQ that is effected by how fast content is added to their database. Maybe EQTitan as well, but they somewhat maintain their own DB now as well since PEQ isn't releasing updates as often.
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Originally Posted by kaos00723
Altogether, there is what, maybe 2k people playing on all servers combined at peak hours. 75% of them are probably the same person boxing multiple characters anyways.
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I think 2k people at peak is a decent number. It is better than what EQEmu had 4+ years ago. Numbers may not be quite as high as they were a year or 2 ago, but they aren't that far off. A number of new games have taken a toll on the EQEmu player base such as Diablo 3 and SWTOR, but both of those are dying off quickly and I think we will see a rise in players this fall. We normally go in cycles where player numbers drop a lot over the summer and then pick back up through the school year.
Keep in mind that 2k at peak doesn't mean we only have 2k active players. I think it is safe to bet that there are 5 times the active players as what can be seen at any given time. People don't play 24X7 normally, and a lot are only on for a few hours at a time throughout the day. So, we probably have closer to 10k active players, which is really decent IMO.
Also, your numbers of 75% being botters is probably pretty far off. Yes, a few servers are probably heavily inflated with botters, but keep in mind that P99 should be a 1 for 1 server and they are by far the highest population on EQEmu. It is probably 40% or less botters and AFK characters overall.
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Originally Posted by kaos00723
I see the end coming soon. There simply isn't enough interest by the community to develop this thing anymore. What is there, 2 or 3 active devs left working on the source?
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Times in EQEmu have been far worse in the past than they are now and it is still going strong many years later. I remember when I first started running my server, KLS was the only active dev that had access to change the source. We have come a far way since then with the addition of the SVN which opens up source updates to many other people to help with.
Yeah, development these past months has been a bit slower, but most of the regular devs are still around lurking and making the occasional update. Everyone has their own reason for not being quite as active. And we always have new people who are willing to start helping with updates (such as Kayen's recent major updates).
Either way, I don't see EQEmu dying any time soon. As long as a few people in the community are motivated to keep new stuff going into the source and new servers and content, the players will keep coming back. We all love EQ and this project has one of the cooler communities that I have found on the internet (even if a few here are jerks).