So what do the EQLive'ers have to say about Emu?

[Kensh]

Fact is the emulators dont work very well, most servers are down a lot or can handle a max of about 30 players, spells rarely work, most zones are quite wierd (non of pop works for example), if you've patched eq-live then the emulators wont work for you for several months, the emulators get broken again every time SOE patches

Taken from an actual post on that thread.

Apparently these people know a lot about emu's. They can indeed handle a max of 30 people, definately (WR's all time record on at one time was 244, that's close.)

Spells rarely work, except for the fact that ~70% of the spells already work that are in the DB. (Thou sometimes they may not give all the effects, that can be changed by coders.

Apparently none of the PoP expansion works, yet i see WR has a good bit of PoP maps spawned nicely, and they're adding more soon.

Then i guess the thing about it being broken every time SOE patches is semi true, thou only if they patch the "main" files. (Only reason DoN took so long to patch was because it was an entirely new EXPANSION, and not just an edit in a few values)


Yep, people on live surely do know a lot about emu, i wish i were as enlightened as them.

[iamjooish]

what that guy above me said :p

Earlier today, I had no idea what a private server was; I was searching google for ways to farm plat, make easy exp, twink up 10 level 70s in a day, you name it (for real $$$, no less). Then I stumbled unto this little gem. Now mind you, I am by no means giving up the idea of dishing out 120$+ to SOE monthly so that I quest, xp whore, raid, and show off my shiny gears with the best of 'em, but this has to be one of the better alternatives to playing (grinding) for months on end so that one can experience just a few moments of 'uber geek' content. Get all of the necessary epics in under 10 minutes, bring all of the fables back to the game, give players the option of playing EQ it's classic, retail-esque state,fix any number of glaring issues with the game that SOE refuses to fix (caster pets that scale with plvl, ffs!)... you f*cking name it. Basicly, the Live team has learned the hard way that they can not keep running their game the way microsoft handles it's windows line of products and still keep their customers loyal. And now they can't keep me loyal anymore, either... but they might bring me back if they take the necessary steps to compete.

As for emulators like these, it's just a half-assed legal prediction but I doubt they will ever be able to eradicate private servers/ off-line play entirely.. maybe drive it a little underground than it alreaedy is.

[solid11]

Emu is nothing but a tiny tear drop in Sony's Atlantic Ocean sized profits. We're kinda like the old crazy drunk uncle in Sony's family. They know we are here, but pretends we're not. If you get what I mean hehe.