Confirmed Underfoot will not be in Retail Stores

[steve]

What all would be needed to chase Live? New opcodes (can get these from SEQ). Anything else?

With them down to patching once per month, it should be easier than it has been in the past.

[trevius]

Well, SEQ only requires a bare minimum of opcodes to be correct for it to work. We probably have 100 or so opcodes that we need to be accurate for it to work. Opcodes aren't extremely hard to get, but probably by the time we had most of them cleared up from a particular patch, they would patch again and we would start all over. Then, there is also the packet structure changes, which sometimes aren't many, but other times they can be pretty confusing. The player profile itself normally changes a couple times per year at least and also the NPC and Client position packet structures change pretty regularly and are a pain to get set perfectly.

In order to even consider doing it, it would require 1 or more people dedicated to work to make every patch compatible. We just don't have the resources to even consider doing it IMO. Also, for chasing Live to even be used by EQEmu players would mean they would need to have currently active Live account, which most EQEmu players do not have. Otherwise, it would require some complex downloading of the patch files directly from SOE, which is probably a bit shady. Either way, I personally don't see Chasing Live as an option for EQEmu ever again.

[provocating]

As a GM and player I would rather just concentrate on what we have. SoF seems fairly stable compared to the previous client. I mean it still crashes but not as often. Getting the non existent zones populated and other minor things are the biggest things we need right now.