server file help

[nosfentora]

I still think that somewhere along the line the names you're using in your .bat file as an argument to eqlaunch, the launcher table and the launcher_zones table is not the 'same'

double check that you don't have any extra spaces anywhere, sometimes it can be finicky.

This is what you'd want to see - i used my example of 5 dynamic zones and 1 static (halas) zone.

.....
[04.30. - 09:11:48] [WORLD__LS] Connecting to login server...
[04.30. - 09:11:50] [WORLD__LS] Connected to Loginserver: eqemulator.net:5998
[04.30. - 09:11:50] [WORLD__LS] Loginserver provided 70.183.172.217 as world address
[04.30. - 09:12:48] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:2974
[04.30. - 09:12:48] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New launcher from 127.0.0.1:2974
[04.30. - 09:12:48] [WORLD__LAUNCH] Adding pending launcher 1
[04.30. - 09:12:48] [WORLD__LAUNCH] Launcher Identified itself as 'zone'. Loading zone list.
[04.30. - 09:12:48] [WORLD__LAUNCH_TRACE] zone: Loaded zone 'Halas' on port 7005
[04.30. - 09:12:48] [WORLD__LAUNCH] Removing pending launcher 1. Adding zone to active list.
[04.30. - 09:12:55] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: Halas reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[04.30. - 09:13:13] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_01 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[04.30. - 09:13:17] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_02 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[04.30. - 09:13:21] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_03 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[04.30. - 09:13:25] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_04 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[04.30. - 09:13:29] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_05 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:2985
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:2986
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New zoneserver #1 from 127.0.0.1:2985
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] [1] Zone started with name dynamic_02 by launcher zone
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] [1] Auto zone port configuration.  Telling zone to use port 7000
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:2987
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:2988
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:2989
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New zoneserver #2 from 127.0.0.1:2986
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] [2] Zone started with name dynamic_05 by launcher zone
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] [2] Auto zone port configuration.  Telling zone to use port 7001
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New zoneserver #3 from 127.0.0.1:2989
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New zoneserver #4 from 127.0.0.1:2988
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] [4] Zone started with name dynamic_04 by launcher zone
[04.30. - 09:13:49] [WORLD__ZONE] [4] Auto zone port configuration.  Telling zone to use port 7002
[04.30. - 09:13:50] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New zoneserver #5 from 127.0.0.1:2987
[04.30. - 09:13:50] [WORLD__ZONE] [5] Zone started with name dynamic_03 by launcher zone
[04.30. - 09:13:50] [WORLD__ZONE] [5] Auto zone port configuration.  Telling zone to use port 7003
[04.30. - 09:13:50] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:2991
[04.30. - 09:13:50] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New zoneserver #6 from 127.0.0.1:2991
[04.30. - 09:13:50] [WORLD__ZONE] [6] Zone started with name dynamic_01 by launcher zone
[04.30. - 09:13:50] [WORLD__ZONE] [6] Auto zone port configuration.  Telling zone to use port 7004
[04.30. - 09:13:55] [WORLD__ZONE] [3] Zone started with name Halas by launcher zone
[04.30. - 09:13:55] [WORLD__ZONE] [3] Auto zone port configuration.  Telling zone to use port 7005
[04.30. - 09:13:55] [WORLD__ZONE] [3] Setting to 'halas' (29) (Static)
[04.30. - 09:13:55] [WORLD__ZONE] [3] [halas] Broadcasting a world time update

this is my .bat file using:

start "Zones" /min eqlaunch.exe zone

@echo off

cls
echo ******************************************
echo ***      Starting EverQuest Server     ***
echo ******************************************
cd "c:\eqemu yak"
echo *** Clearing old logs...               ***
del ".\logs\*.*" /q
echo *** Starting EverQuest World Server... ***
start "World" /min world.exe
sleep 90
echo *** Starting EverQuest Zones...        ***
start "Zones" /min eqlaunch.exe zone
sleep 40
echo *** Starting EverQuest Chat Server...  ***
start "Chat" /min chatserver.exe
sleep 8
echo *** Starting EverQuest Mail Server...  ***
start "Mail" /min mailserver.exe
echo *** EverQuest Server Started           ***
echo ******************************************
sleep 8
exit

My Launcher table

+------+----------+
| name | dynamics |
+------+----------+
| zone |        5 |
+------+----------+

my Launcher_Zones table

+----------+-------+------+
| launcher | zone  | port |
+----------+-------+------+
| zone     | Halas | 7005 |
+----------+-------+------+