Server seems to be working

[RangerDown]

Server registration isn't required unless you intend to have a green or yellow tagged server. (And private servers aren't eligible for that status.) Keep trying, and the very end of your world.exe loadout should read "Connected to loginserver eqemulator.net." If you don't see this line come up then you are not connecting.

Simplify your troubleshooting a bit and just see if you can establish a connection at all. Try to port 5998 of eqemulator.net with this command from the server computer:

C:\> telnet eqemulator.net 5998

If you connect, then you have no router problems. If you don't connect, don't bother playing with world.exe until you can get that connection working.

And I woke up the next morning to scroll back up and find the conversation with tbti. Had I been awake at that point, it wouldn't have gotten that far.

[Calabeth]

hehe Thanks RD. Well as far as the telnet, first shot I believe it went thru as the dos window renamed itself to telnet eqemulator and became just a blinking cursor.

Must of been Something I did wrong with World then as I still have the External IP list and the last 4 line on it ( not fired up boot5zones.bat yet )

TCP Listening on: ( external IP ):9000
Starting factory Reader
Starting factory Writer
World server listening on: ( external IP ):9000

I know there is prolly something simple here that I have over looked somehow.
But on the bonus side I have the starts of atleast 3 long quests I have been able to rough draft to source in and test when I finally get it working lol. (practicing quests where you talk to x and y spawns nearby, kill y for drop c, turn drop c in for quest advancement dealys )