P99 is the Slackware of EQEmu

[nilbog]

Originally Posted by MarcusD

took an open source project and killed it basically.

P99 took an open source project and killed it basically.

Well, I have a different view. I would say p99 brought more players to eqemu as well as potential developers.

Now the only part of the story that hasn't come true yet is that the robust EQEmu community undercuts and kills p99.

I don't feel like we're competing.

P99 is pretty good at what they do (except the fact they let high level zone disruptors run rampant probably because they are donators)

Cool lies bro.

But like Debian we have to muster up the huevos to say no its not ok they closed their source and we are going to do it better than you and take you out.

Again, I don't feel like I'm in a competition. It seems as if you feel otherwise and/or want a competition.

The way we do that, I believe, is to get the trilogy client working and make a new database hopefully from scratch to really be classic eq. This is my goal and I have a long way to go since I just barely got my first server up but it will happen eventually and since it is open source we can all contribute and never worry that once the P99 ship goes down everything we invested into helping them is lost forever.

When you have your server made, you won't find me creating threads like this about your project. Good luck and best wishes.

[image]

I like you nilbog but I gotta play devils advocate a bit here, esp since I have been through some of this.

Originally Posted by nilbog

Well, I have a different view. I would say p99 brought more players to eqemu as well as potential developers.

I imagine it brought more developers to P99, not sure who exactly you are talking about here? More players I would agree with though, in terms of how far they explored the eqemu community beyond p99 is up for debate.

Originally Posted by nilbog

I don't feel like we're competing.

You may not FEEL it, but in a way we really all are, it is common for players now to compare everything to P99. It is a common excuse to not even try other servers because of either having things different from classic or having something broke that P99 has fixed, because if P99 fixed it why don't you have it fixed.

On the flip side you have to understand the frustration of everyone else reinventing the wheel, y'know?