Want to Help. Where do I start?

[dazlpro]

Hello All,

I just found out about this site a few days ago and am very enthousiastic about this project u have running. Being a hardcore EQ fan, but not having the time anymore to play EQLive endgame, EQEmu looks like a great alternative.

I had little problems (all problems got solved using this forums search) and was suprised to see how much you guys archieved already.

I would like to help improve the database and started reading a lot of threads in this forum. After reading some Im still confused on some points, so if anyone would help me out here ; )

* Some entrys in the database are made by hand, but could somebody explain which parts can be collected by a packet collector (if any?).
* Are the worldbuilders on EQemu working together or are the databases not meant to be merged?
* Is there a possibility for the worldbuilders on eqemu to have some sort of overview on what they want to work on and more important on which parts they could use help? Im sure there are a lot of ppl tweaking their own database while they could be all working together. (Or am I being to idealistic here?).
* To backup a sql database (eq, can I just zip the 'eq' folder in mysql dir?

Hope yuo could answer this for me, would help me out a lot.

Thanks a ton, greetz DazL