Patching Alternatives

[johane]

Originally Posted by mattmeck

No, he was 100% wrong, it DOES patch.

Never the less it is very complete.

OK, so my stupid question is:

What evidence is there that Titanium can run properly against any version of eqemu ever? i.e. How can one be certain that the client on the disks isnt broken in some very fundamental way that totally precludes it ever being better than x% running with an emulator?

Originally Posted by johane

OK, so my stupid question is:

What evidence is there that Titanium can run properly against any version of eqemu ever? i.e. How can one be certain that the client on the disks isnt broken in some very fundamental way that totally precludes it ever being better than x% running with an emulator?

The fact the Devs are going to recreate the EMU from scratch to work with it. (if its decided to go that way)

[johane]

Originally Posted by mattmeck

The fact the Devs are going to recreate the EMU from scratch to work with it. (if its decided to go that way)

This is the kind of idea that we used to describe to managers as "couragous", knowing that that would get it cancelled!

[klinzhai]

Originally Posted by johane

This is the kind of idea that we used to describe to managers as "couragous", knowing that that would get it cancelled!

Well, considering these guys pulled it off (pretty quickly too, if you ask me), I'd say your managers were pussies.

[johane]

Originally Posted by klinzhai

Well, considering these guys pulled it off (pretty quickly too, if you ask me), I'd say your managers were pussies.

Let me give you a clue:

A manager's job is to manage risk and to try to keep everyone as happy as possible whilst also keeping the money flowing. A decision that could piss people off entails risk (i.e. either have no new people join the emu or piss off people who don't want to buy titanium who play with emu quite nicely.). As it was the dev came up with a low risk solution (although FNW did post that things could get a bit more CPU bound supporting more patch levels). This solution was not actually what was being proposed at the time this survey was made - am I right in supposing it was this thread that made devs think "Hey we can make eveyone happy here"? Damn cunning approach to solve problem IMHO.

[~RD~ Innapropriate comments edited out. This forum is not the place to make those comparisons. Save that for when you're with your buddies, quoting the key lines from Team America:World Police.]

[Armanthuz]

Ive been following and contributing to this project over the years and i can simplify the argument for the non-technical users.

Sony makes a ton of money and pays MANY programmers/developers to make stuff for everquest.

To expect 2 programmers to be able to reverse engineer and implement not only the communication between client and server stuff but ALSO the new features they add is well fantasy.

Im constantlly amazed how fast these guys took a game that was hemmoraging badly from trying to keep up to something thats pretty amazing if you knew the difficulty on what they are doing.