So you can't run an emulator server offline anymore!?!

[Drawde]

It seems that with 0.2.0 you HAVE to use the login server since
eqgame.exe -patchme doesn't work anymore.
I'm currently in the process of downloading the latest EQ patch so
haven't tried it out yet (installed 0.2.0 and reinstalled the DB though) so
I haven't confirmed this myself, but surely this means you can't run the emulator
offline on a single computer anymore? And creating your own online servers is difficult at best?
I don't mean to be negative here but are the developers intending to release any sort of fix for this?
When I'm testing my database additions I don't want to have to connect to the Internet and create a new
online server every time I restart the emulator, quite apart from actually playing the game when it's finally
playable.
Sorry if I'm sounding negative or annoyed here but it was quite a shock to read the posts on the Win32 support forum!