Setting up original EQ without any expansions

[Teppen]

A classic server like classic live was, is impossible. Why? Well heres some things:

1. Alot of quests, mobs, items, etc. have been added or taken out since classic. To host a legit classic server you would have had to of collected this info way back then, and made use of packet collecting then, and kept them stored away until now. I dont even think the packet collector existed during classic... could be wrong but still not likely someone has all this info above stored away somewhere from back then. Allakhazms and other sites have removed quests, mobs, etc from their sites when they were removed from live, so these sites are not reliable for getting complete classic server up and running, you would have to have collected from ingame.

2. You would have to have all the last zones updates and patch before kurnark expansion came out. Patching from the classic cd now patches up to the current patch adding in all the fixes made since classic. Reverse engineering the client .exe file removing every patch made and restoring the orginal work would be quite time consuming to a person who knows how to reverse engineer, the probabilty of someone having all the changelogs that were made since class is rather unlikely.

Someone should make a sticky saying true classic servers dont exist and wont ever exist..so dont ask in forums. I swear this would stop alot of useless and hopeless threads.