.bat to switch between live and eqemu client

[Taurinus]

Yep. You will notice that the post over at the PEQ forum assumes that the user has the Titanium client installed (or at least extracted from the retail distribution). Your creation is something different altogether.

Again, what is the use of this if you have Titanium retail distribution? Zero. The only ones who could stand to benefit from this are the same ones who don't have a licensed copy of Titanium. It's that simple.

[nano]

I said in the original post I don't endorse the distribution of client files, this could be helpful for people trying to save disk space.

Apparently that wasn't enough for you to find some reason to complain. Try not to make assumptions or be pessimistic about peoples intentions next time please.

If that's not good enough for you, don't worry. I won't bother trying to contribute anymore then.

[Taurinus]

I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this matter. I just don't see the chance of a machine that can play current Live and not have enough space for 2 client installs. That's just me tho.

Sorry for my overly aggressive approach to the topic, but I do find it (the knowledge presented here) dubious. I admit that you are right in saying that it is the intent of the user, ultimately, that determines the use of this knowledge.

[nano]

Originally Posted by Taurinus

I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this matter. I just don't see the chance of a machine that can play current Live and not have enough space for 2 client installs. That's just me tho.

Sorry for my overly aggressive approach to the topic, but I do find it (the knowledge presented here) dubious. I admit that you are right in saying that it is the intent of the user, ultimately, that determines the use of this knowledge.

I can understand your reaction though. I should have reworded my post more carefully. My intent is not so people can distribute files, but to at least cut down on clutter or fix problems with different clients. I have 8 different retail discs now and have about 6 different eq installs.

Having entirely different installs does make it simpler though like you said.

[trevius]

Guessing in order to use the 2 versions after switching with the batch file, you will still want 2 separate shortcuts (1 for each version). One potential problem I could see would be someone using the EQLive shortcut when they have their Titanium (or whatever expansion) files in place from this batch. That may cause some of their Titanium files to patch when it runs the everquest.exe instead of eqgame.exe by mistake. So, maybe if you don't move everquest.exe back when you move the Titanium files in. Might be best to just delete everquest.exe from the Titanium file set so you don't have to worry about it.

And yeah, this probably could be used illegally, but you would need to have the required Titanium files anyway, so it shouldn't really matter too much, as you have them already before doing any of this. I have EQLive, Titanium, SoF, SoD all installed and backups of most of them in 1 or more places throughout my hard drives lol. I know some people have space issues, so something like this might be useful for them. I don't see any problems with it being discussed or shared here. Thanks for sharing, nano.

[steve]

Originally Posted by Taurinus

Yep. You will notice that the post over at the PEQ forum assumes that the user has the Titanium client installed (or at least extracted from the retail distribution). Your creation is something different altogether.

Again, what is the use of this if you have Titanium retail distribution? Zero. The only ones who could stand to benefit from this are the same ones who don't have a licensed copy of Titanium. It's that simple.

I don't see the harm with this. This is directions to keep ONE directory of the game, instead of having multiple folders. EQ is playable on computers from 10 years ago. That computer may or may not have the hard drive space available in order to support multiple installs.

Could this be used to play eqemu without a supported install? Yes.
Does this post contain directions on where to download the mentioned files? No.

Knowing which files are needed at an absolute minimum would be essential in case a file was deleted inadvertently, without requiring a whole new install.

Agree or disagree, this is just information that the user has to choose to do something with. I have Titanium, SoF, and the SoD download from Steam. I still find this information valuable. It would be nice if it could be expanded to include all of these bases so that I can combine my 6 EQ folders (Live, Test, Beta, Titanium, SoF, SoD) into one folder.