A Merge.

[Cisyouc]

Personally, as the parent poster stated, I would find it _very_ cool if there was a server made with the collaborative effort of all our best administrators and developers under some kind of guideline and administration (so there isn't disputes between person a wanting to do something different than person b). But it would take a lot of work, communication and agreeability(important!) among the involved persons. Unfortunately its been my experience, however, that if there is more than 2 or 3 people working on a project, theres always going to be conflict which will eventually break up the server for very selfish reasons.

Besides, as already stated, most server ops and developers here using EQEMu are such because they have a vision and they want it done their way; they do not want to work in a group. Even if they wouldn't mind -- it would be near impossible for them to decide on a common vision, at least.

[MysticDeath]

Haha, I'm just going to restate what I saw someone else type up.

If you combine servers, it will cause too much attention. Enough so that Sony will come and shut down that server.

If you allow Character transfers over any server then players will just go onto a server make a uber character and then transfers. (which is not going to happen, becuase you will key servers that allow it) but then people will make a legit server for 4 minutes, key themselves (unless key will not be part of emu, and you have to talk to current key'ed server admins) and transfer over. But to fix most of this, you would/could set up a system thats not part of eqemu out of a direct download, and is in the source code for one to enable in features.h and recompile. but that brings up point b it will allow anyone to make an uberriffic character and transfer it over to any server. But lets say it is an alternative download and you have to make your own ring of servers to allow character transfer inbetween, that would be cool. And to join a ring you have to talk to the server admin who started that ring. I believe that wont cause 'too' many problems. haha

[fathernitwit]

thats exactly what im talking about... this is not integrated with eqemu at all, each server makes their own descisions about trust.

such hostility.

[Ueguvil]

Although this sounds like a pretty cool idea, I personally feel like there are many other things the developers' valuable time could be spent on. Please don't take this as 'hostility'.