Custom Zones...?

[cavedude]

Wow, excellent work Wind! Is it possible (legally and technically) to convert Sony's zone files into format of our own for use with your client?

[Sensu-Bean]

simpleclient gives me a woody!

Windcatcher I wanna have yo baby... if only I were female.

Looks Hella cool! Good Job!

[morganpartee]

wow sensu bean...thats a bit creepy. lol

but yea, custom client is good. then there is no end to the editing doable.

i wish we had the source to live eq tho lol

[Windcatcher]

Originally Posted by cavedude

Wow, excellent work Wind! Is it possible (legally and technically) to convert Sony's zone files into format of our own for use with your client?

Technically, yes. Legally, hell no

I don't remember what the current released version of ZoneProxy is but mine is version 1.5 (bugfixes, I think). One reason I haven't done anything on it since is because I decided that it was ultimately a dead end as SoE can still shut down servers at will (case in point: the various S2k servers). SimpleClient is aimed at preventing that once and for all. Is it a new game? Technically, yes. Is it a really huge leap, though? Not really, in my opinion, since it still talks to EQEmu.

[Sensu-Bean]

Windcatcher,

I will try to put this as simple as I can because I usually dont make alot of sense to people, even though I understand what Im trying to say.

When your SimpleClient is released, will it be coded to check a list of zones that are going to be loaded and have a filter that deny any everquest registered named zones. Not talking about loading nexus.s3d as it is from sony, but I mean after a person created a custom zone in OpenZone and names it. I think there should be, unless there already is, a filter coded into OpenZone and SimpleClient to deny saving and loading of any zone names registered to Sony.

Only question is, would you be breaking laws not by coding a filter to deny in both programs, but when you list the names of zones owned by sony for the filter to deny in the code?

I guess Im trying to ask about such features:

-OpenZone cant save custom zones with registered sony zone names.
-SimpleClient cant load custom zones with registered sony zone names.

[morganpartee]

see wind...only problem i see is that you cant play real eq zones. people only (Largely) play eqemu to play eq, without cost.

taking away eq is just...scary. lol