What he meant, is that eqemu loads zones dynamically(when you zone for instance, or log in), unlike eqlive where all the zones are staticly loaded(always up). I do not think this will be an issue with you, because the default boot5zones.bat loads 5 zones, and since you stated only 3 would be playing on your server at any one time, you should be perfectly fine playing. I would suggest you use the eqemu.net login server to play on your local server, you will just need to set the account names in your database just to allow access your server, and not allow anyone else to join(server will be locked, but granted accounts can login) I think you need to set all 3 accounts to serverop. Searching the forums for database editors, or if your comfortable editing sql files, you can use mysql-front and set the flags on your accounts.
All this does boil down to which client patch are you up to? I'm not sure if current live patch(DR5.8 ) will work for you(I know 5.7 does, I can log onto my own personal server on the same machine I run world/zone)
Setting up the server is pretty easy, some pretty nice walkthroughs are listed in the forums, just be sure to follow them to the letter.
Good luck!
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