Shards of Dalaya - Custom/Legit

[Secrets]

Originally Posted by Stope21

Also, sorry If I posted in the wrong forum. I felt it was the appropriate place, as this is where most other servers were being listed, and where most people will look first when trying to find out information on emulated servers.

It's no big deal, really. :p

It's always been an unspoken rule that we generally only advertise EQEmulator servers hosted or related to the eqemulator.net loginserver in the eqemulator forums. Everything else gets thrown away in the off-topic forums.

I personally don't have any problems with it as long as it's in the right place, and what Shards of Dalaya wants to do with advertising on their board is their business.

[KLS]

Wold, I hate you.

<3,
Kimmy.


Just to add

I would daresay most people who play SoD have healthy knowledge of eqemu.

This is pretty much why the community has me, I used to be a pretty big SoD player... IN FACT Wold was in my guild for some time. But I got fed up with some parts of the community and the management. But I decided I still loved working with the emulated server and that's basically how I got working on the server here and PEQ, because at the time I thought damn the stock server is so far behind what SoD has implemented. Glad to say we've caught up.

Long story short: I don't think it's entirely helpful to have such hostility to SoD. Hopefully on the flip side people understand why we only want servers apart of our community to be advertised here.

[trevius]

I agree, KLS. I didn't mean hostility in any way in my post. I wasn't aware that it was just a player from SoD that was advertising it. I just saw their join date from like 2003 or so and figured they were probably SoD management of some sorts. Since these are EQEmu forums and since SoD isn't quite EQEmu anymore, that is why I moved the post. If someone from EQ2Emu posted an advertisement there, I would have moved it as well and consider it to be a similar situation, although a bit more of a grey area.

Honestly, I am sure SoD and EQEmu have alot to learn from each other. It would be nice if we both shared freely and maybe even worked together. Our source is free to anyone who wants it, so it makes it easy enough for them to take anything they like and use it. I know there have been a couple tidbits of code from SoD that helped EQEmu considerably. I believe that is where the fear code came from recently that has helped alot. Really, I see little reason for the 2 projects to be separate. Just like EQEmu servers, the thing that makes SoD stand out is their database and quests (and their custom files too). The source code is just a means to use it.

I imagine that once SoF is complete and functional, SoD may take consideration in making an update to their code to make them compatible as well. If that does happen, I hope they will also consider to keep sharing with EQEmu from time to time if/when possible

I don't really know much of the history of SoD and EQEmu and how the branch off happened. I just see potential for both projects to benefit from each other. We are all EQ Emulators after-all I know plenty of players have hopped between EQEmu servers and also between EQEmu and SoD. The more players that either project has, the more potential there is for both projects to grow player numbers.

[LumieX]

SoD wouldn't suck if it were a PvP server

[Aonelyn]

Originally Posted by KLS

Wold, I hate you.

<3,
Kimmy.


Just to add



This is pretty much why the community has me, I used to be a pretty big SoD player... IN FACT Wold was in my guild for some time. But I got fed up with some parts of the community and the management. But I decided I still loved working with the emulated server and that's basically how I got working on the server here and PEQ, because at the time I thought damn the stock server is so far behind what SoD has implemented. Glad to say we've caught up.

Long story short: I don't think it's entirely helpful to have such hostility to SoD. Hopefully on the flip side people understand why we only want servers apart of our community to be advertised here.

What guild did you own? lol

[KLS]

I was in Ruin, I refer to it as mine because it was the one I was in, and that's just the way I say things. I didn't actually own it obviously

Originally Posted by trevius

I imagine that once SoF is complete and functional, SoD may take consideration in making an update to their code to make them compatible as well.

I'd say if they haven't updated to a new client by now despite the benefits another newer one's not gonna be any more persuasive

It would be a considerable amount of work as their source is probably pretty heavily modified at this point. You wouldn't be able to just switch pieces in and out and say 'oh hai it werks'; it would take pretty intimate knowledge of current client workings and netcode, and I don't wish to offend but I doubt anyone on SoD current staff has that. Have to weigh the pros of having a more modular client with access to more zones versus the cons of a significant time investment when they haven't even utilized all the zones on their current client. Probably not something they'd be rushing to do anytime soon.