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Originally Posted by mplostcause
iam still not too good at the whole database workings =P will this work with the cavedudes database? and if not do most people recommend the peq database over it?
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This is an extract taken from Cavedude's database - Cavedude has a lot of impressive work done in a lot more zones, but he quit working on it. PEQ's work is done mostly up to Kunark era, and is more complete to that point - but there has been no updates. Neither one of them are posting updates to their database: regardless which one you choose, if you want to see more work or more zones, you have to figure out how to do it yourself.
What you're probably wondering, is what I was wondering when I first started with the emulator: "Which one will be more playable if I made my own server"? The answer is, "none". You can play a little with either of the database, but still theres enough "loose ends" in them as to where they won't be much fun. This is a gigantic project, with many details, and is still young.
If you want to mount a server of your own, you are better off mounting the PEQ database as it is more "playable", and there's a "glimmer of hope" they might update it one day. In my case, when I tried Cavedudes'. I found my self working in the Pre-Kunark zones alot, so i went "PEQ" , which gave me a better start. And now that I'm starting to see how it all works, it's not that hard extracting some data from Cavedudes and inserting into PEQ, thus bringing the best of two worlds together.
The bottom line is, if you want to make your own server, you have to be ready to learn, and do A LOT of work into making some playable zones. You have to comb the Waki's , FAQ's and these forums for answers to your questions. Don't embarrass yourself by posting questions that have answers already posted here many times over.
If you don't want to do all of this and just want to play, there's already some real nice working servers up, with some very nice "individual" work done to them, and are very playable.
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