Adding to mobs to zones

[WildcardX]

Hello everyone. I am sorta new to EQEmu and I appreciate all the good work folks here have been doing.

Before I get started on my server, I understand the importance of the DB and how people are still trying to packet sniff data from Live to add info to future DBs to populate the zones and such. I work with SQL and databases in my 9-to-5 job so I am 100% comfy in the database world and I thought I'd just begin to input data into my database to populate more zones. But then I stop for a sec and I can't help but wonder if I am missing something obvious, or else other people would have done this already... so am I being overly optimistic? Or can I just sit down, look at the tables and start plugging in data to populate my server's zones to make it however I want?

Also, I couldnt help but notice on the couple servers I just visited that the few mobs that did move or when mobs chased a player, the appeared to "blink" from one spot to another and when a mob finally reached you, it would fight you while looking in a different direction from you. ie, the mobs wouldnt face whoever has generated the most aggro. Is this a database issue or a coding issue? And is mob movement a database issue (like a mob is missing information in the database telling it where to go) or is this also a coding issue?

Thanks in advance and I hope I can help contribute to world building.