State of the Project

[techguy84]

I have been dodeling around the forums for the past few days and something has come to my attention.

Is this project starting to die?

I say this because it seems like there is just less and less going on. More people just moving on to greener pastures, or just getting bored with it. I used to frequent the project a long time ago, and things seemed more up then they are now. I dont know, make me feel blue as I have come back to it only to find its slowing down.

Things that lead me to this conclusion.

Updates - There was frequent updates all the way up to 3/15, then they stopped.

Post - I am not seeing a lot of new post in most catagories. Some things are over 2 months old.

People leaving - Some great people to this project have or are about to leave. Mostly due to the fact of it getting boring, old, stale, slow, ect...

Maybe I am just catching it at a bad time, I dunno. I know that I have swore to complete my guide as a contribution ot the project, but I'm worried by the time its done, will it just fall on deaf ears.

I dont know if this is the kind of attention that is wanted here, but what if we was to push the project. Tell people that have never heared of it to take a look, through signatures, blogs, things of that nature. I can think this may be bad for the emu, as more attention from users means more attention from SOE and company.

Anyhow, just rambling on, I know I am not going anywhere for now, but I dont have the same background as some other people as I am kinda new again, so things are fresh to me.

On a added note, I think that it is simply more or less the player distrobution amongst the servers, with most people starting a new server. This does kinda cause issues as you find people scattered instead of united, but this is the heart of the project, the abilty to go on your own if you wanted to.

[whirll]

I think some of the people left for Vanguard, but as that game sucks, im sure some are coming back

[techguy84]

I have yet to try vanguard. I cant find anything that quite works for me like everquest did, but as far as pay to play games, the only thing I thouch is EQ2.

[KLS]

Updates - There was frequent updates all the way up to 3/15, then they stopped.

While I wont argue that updates are less frequent lately, there have been several since the download page updated on 3/15.. not sure what's up with that exactly.

[techguy84]

Actually, with the Updated thing, I am going to retract that for two reasons,

1. The emulator is very very stable at the moment. Which would lead to less updates.

2. The updates that have not been compiled into binary for download are probably smaller fixes and that they are currently working, in way, to make a newer stable version, possibly 0.8.0 this may be just a theory, but It makes sense to me.

Partly what has gotten me so down is I have been digging in the past, with post from 2-4 years ago. I have come to realize that that was back then and in no way affects the current era of the project.

Things were more alive back then, but there was also alot of turmoil, and some people broke off taking a user base with them. In essense the project, or the idea is very much alive, just factioned off, with the others not even being part of the main project here.
(This is just my take on it. I was not around when this all happend back then, so i could be very much wrong)

Anyhow, I feel better now that I have casted "Quit being so damn depressed" with my lvl 800 Shrink so its all good now.

[Kayot]

I think what kind of kills the EQemu is it's inability to expand as a server. Every one links into a single server. A central server that can fail. This leads to the theory that one day, there might not be a central EQemu server. Thats the question I've been facing for a while now.

Does any one know how the Scorpius2K server bypassed that limitation?

There are other things too. Like the program can't reload the item/loot/(Established Merchant lists) databases while it's running. The console lacks any real commands. At least any that are documented.

Maybe it's just me, I've run a few other servers (non-eq) and while there where a million+ server out there all posing something the others lacked, it felt like the community's were alive. Here it feel like a dusty room with a few people huddling around the last candle on earth.

I'm probably reading too much into it... Things will probably get better. I hope.

[Angelox]

You have to set a goal and finish it, tackle every hurdle that gets in your way.
90% of what I now know about MySql and Perl, I learned here - at first they (Perl, MySql) were just two more setbacks.
You spoke about background: I have none. I'm a "highschool flunkie". I think they graduated me so they would'nt have to see my face another year. But I have a motto: "if he can do it, so can I" - and I always do my best to finish what I start, no matter how insignificant it may seem to me or others (you need to finish what you start). I chose the database portion of the project, because I really wanted to see some zones completed as I saw them on live. I think detailed database work and research is very needed.
So really, there's nothing to it - you just need to comit yourself (to yourself) and don't look back or to your sides. The rest will come easy, and you'll learn a lot.
There are plenty of "eqemu vets" who read these forums and don't post much anymore, but will speak up and post if they see you hard a work, and need help.