EqEmu Rant :P

[Bob98112]

Since I have difficulty adding anything meaningful to the posts on the EQemu areas, I will make a post here.

I have been reading this message board alot lately. I only discovered late at night last Wednesday. Since then, I have gotten the EqEmu server running on my Win2kserver. (The linux version compiles fine now, but doesnt work at all - I still dunno why) Sure, I ran into problems at first - But I kept hammering away at it. I Read the posts, Read about MySql, read the World and Zone projects code.. Anyway, I wanted to explain my brief experience before I made the observation.

I am really amused by the perceived attitude of some posts here as well as the people who have connected to my public server and bitched in /ooc.

To me, the EQ Emulator isn't just some gadget, it is completely COOL. Taking Verant Interactive out of the EQ equation is the best thing that could ever happen to the game. They slowly ruined the experience for me over the 3 years I played EQ. I learned to dispise them and their ability to crap on their customer's heads consistantly without any negative consequence.
I am clearly no marketting wizard but, I do know that you give the customers what they want before you seperate them from their money.

People see the Emulator doing all the cool things it does and complain about something or another. The servers are not up when I want to play. Like we are here to dedicate our hardware without any other compensation than some other random person's amusement? The _____ doesn't work. Geeze! Look what does work! I cannot get my _____ to work. Fix it for me!!! Come on people!

My favorite was this guy on my server last night that was pissy becuase I left the starting status at 20. This allowed people to fly around, set their skills as well as zone and summon stuff. He/She thought I should remove those commands to make the game more "legitimate". I wrote a program to strip the dup spawns from the zones, I am working on populating some of the newbie areas with proper level spawns. I am working on forcing a save so that people will not loose their group when they zone, Repairing some of the zonelines and safe points.. But/// Comon' this emulator is in beta! I think is rocks so far and I cannot wait until it is done!

If I could not contribute to the coding with my paltry 22 years of programming experience, I would like to at least find out what is being worked on so that I don't duplicate something that will be finished soon enough. That is why I am currently poking around with the Data in the database.

I end my rant just asking people to consider being reasonable about EqEmu. If you don't like what you see or cannot make it work... fine! Please Go back to playing EQlive. There is no way in HEll I ever will. I wrote this game off before I found EqEmu.

Phew! I feel better, even if no-one ever reads this... LOL