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Why in God's name do you not take advantage of the EMU launcher?

Look I know you guys put in work, and a lot of it, to customize these servers.

But this irks me. I can't see that it would be very difficult to include your differing files with the launcher folks. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I imagine it takes no more than a minute or two.

But no, apparently that can't be done.

Instead I have to make a separate copy of my game for EVERY server whose operator has custom files, and who has elected not to take advantage of this feature.

Right now I think I am going to try a different server. DungeonCrawl is apparently where I am going, because they support this feature.

I'd like to try Soulfire, but this is another custom server. And you guessed it I have to make yet another copy and install his files.

Just getting real old.

Everyone needs to face facts. Virtually none of these servers is going to have a high population, or in most cases more than 10 or 20 players on at any time. You need to do everything you can to make it easy for people to try it for the first time.

And that is just the way the world rolls, I'm sorry to tell you.

This may seem like it is a very trivial thing for the end user to do. But that is just the way the world rolls people. In most cases we are going to log on to your server, run around for a bit, and decide it is not our cup of tea.

But if you want that log on in the first place, you need to make it so that I don't have to have yet another copy of EQ on my drive. Maybe my pc is slow, but it takes a couple of minutes to finish copying those files everytime.

So I'm taking a stand. Soulfire? I logged on and saw your "Dougs" following dark elves around. And that is as far as it is going for me. Pity, you must have something going on, since you have a reasonable number of people playing for an EMU.

But if you had just put your 3 custom files up with the EMU launcher folks...