I'm personally working on a 'legit' server and I strongly support real roleplay servers where the gameplay directly relates to everquest world. Although i can see the advantage of providing EQLive clones to users not able to pay and play on SOE's servers, I believe that now we have the power to provide something new to our players it should be sat down, planned and then provided slowly.
One of the main problem's i'm finding at the moment is stability. Although disabling most 'admin' commands to users providers alot more stability there are still issues that will confuse users new to everquest and possibly not cause them to stay. However, with all the work the EQEmu development team is doing (\o/ Yay to the devs \o/) I feel we're soon going to have server software and database tools (\o/ Yay to Windcatcher \o/) that will allow us worldbuilders provide very interesting and new ideas to players that will pull in high player bases and hopefully make stable servers that will give us that little something different that most are wanting to see.
Lets see how things go from here
InKy