Shards of Dalaya - Custom/Legit

[Stope21]

Shards of Dalaya is a free, custom legitimate server.

It is one of, if not the most popular emu servers, supporting over 500 people playing simultaneously. Many people consider it to be, "what live should have been."

On this server you will find:
-Over 100 custom zones.
-An immense progressive raiding system.
-Full guild support, and many active guilds.
-A lvl cap of 65.
-An accelerated exp rate. It generally takes anywhere from a week to 2 months to get level 65, and that is just the beginning!
-Over 500 aa's/class.
-A custom tome system that will allow you to further progress your character if you do so desire.
-A large team of developers that truly care about the server, many of which have been working on the server for years.
-A massive player run wiki.
-Forums with over hundreds of active members, and plenty to discuss.

Link: Shards of Dalaya

[trevius]

So, since SoD is advertising for players from this project, is it ok for EQEmu to advertise on the SoD boards? :P

EDIT: Sorry, not trying to start a flame here. I am just saying I doubt they would be happy if we advertised on their boards in this manner.
EDIT2: I moved this to off-Topic since SoD is completely unrelated to EQEmu other than it being another Everquest Emulator. This is fine for Off-Topic though I think. It is basically the same thing as a WoWEmu or EQ2Emu server being advertised on these forums and off-topic is the right place for that.

[ChaosSlayer]

he forgot to add - HIGHLY ILLIGAL

[GeorgeS]

Agreed,

I would normally lock this one down, but I'll keep an eye on this thread.

GeorgeS

[porigromus]

Too bad all emu projects wouldn't share code among each other. What license is the code under GNU?

[Waldoff]

Hey folks,

Head developer Wold from Shards of Dalaya here.

I just wanted to let you know that we did not officially endorse this post in any way - it was by a regular member of our server. As much as we want publicity we have no desire to step on toes and are sorry if this did so.

Just figured I would stop by since this post was brought to my attention (by mister Stope above bragging about his amazing advertisement skill). Just so you know though we do not keep our eqemu origins quiet at all - I would daresay most people who play SoD have healthy knowledge of eqemu.

-Wold

[Xabob]

idk how old this is but what about, just building support into the eqemu login server to support shards? That way Eqemu people would be like oh hey i wanna try that and SoD people would be like oh hey i wanna try that one and we could be one big happy family?

[steve]

Originally Posted by Xabob

idk how old this is but what about, just building support into the eqemu login server to support shards? That way Eqemu people would be like oh hey i wanna try that and SoD people would be like oh hey i wanna try that one and we could be one big happy family?

EQemu does not want to be associated with SoD in any way - they've been shut down by SOE on more than one occasion because what they are doing is illegal.

[Secrets]

Originally Posted by Xabob

idk how old this is but what about, just building support into the eqemu login server to support shards? That way Eqemu people would be like oh hey i wanna try that and SoD people would be like oh hey i wanna try that one and we could be one big happy family?

Shards of Dalaya uses the old EQ Protocol, not the new (6.2 and later) one. It could in theory work, but SoD would have to re-write the protocol and update their packet structures. Plus there's some things in Titanium+ clients that are required... it's a lot of work, but doable.

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by Secrets

Shards of Dalaya uses the old EQ Protocol, not the new (6.2 and later) one. It could in theory work, but SoD would have to re-write the protocol and update their packet structures. Plus there's some things in Titanium+ clients that are required... it's a lot of work, but doable.

It would take an incredible amount of work to convert everything they have to somewhat be presentable on the same login-server. Even though the very beginning of this thread states the activity of their server and how it doesn't collide very well with community standards.

[haynar]

I had fun on SoD during the short time I played on it. It was fun to try something different for a change.

Haynar

[wolfwalkereci]

Its a fun server but it has a serious "old boy network." Dare to be anything other then a yes man gets you nothing but trouble.

Also the above is enough to get you banned by them.
I had fun but I don't miss the gestapo staff.