EverQuest Living Legacy

[trevius]

Just a thought, but wouldn't a simple packet sniffer work just fine for getting what we need from live? Or is the traffic all encrypted somehow?

[John Adams]

You mean like tcpdump on *nix using a hub? heh. I had tried that long ago, but could not make heads or tails of what was generated. But that's likely my noobness when it comes to packet data. Could be worth a try.

The old tool that would be SUPREME if it still worked was the EQBuilder that read the packets and stuffed everything into temp tables for processing. But there's where your encryption thing comes in, I think. If we knew that, EQEmu could use the live client, right?

[KLS]

There wouldn't be anything inherently wrong with supporting a new client assuming we had enough information to do so. We wouldn't support newer features of course but it would allow people to use newer style eqg zones if they wished (even though they'd be mapless till someone figured out the format).

[John Adams]

I would love to use the new zone files. I am one of the few that likes the fact they are trying to improve the game graphically. I just wish I knew what to do to get it started.

[EvoZak]

So the new Lavastorm isn't in eqg format? /runs off to look in eq dir... Nope it isn't... but the bazaar is, and I don't have any problems there... or do I?

[bowmaster]

IF we use a later version of client


Does this Mean We might Support later expansions so they will be spells from 71-75 etc??

[ChaosSlayer]

main problem with spells that Titanium client is hard coded to support MAX of 10k spells (based on what one of our Devs said) - you could add any spells by hand- but you have very little place to put them.

if we move to Aniversary box - hopefuly it has inheritly higher max spell limit (like 20k i belive?).

personaly I am mostly interested in new zones and models (and of course higher spell limit) - the "features" are not my priority