I had no idea vBulletin was so expensive. I haven't a clue how they make money when so many free "better" alternatives actually exist.
I'm partial to phpBB though because of the very high community support for making mods to it. I was a major mod maker from the start of 2.0 RC-1 basically, but had to turn over my popular mods to someone else around 2.0.0 because of school :( I have no clue what the community is doing as of right now, but there are probably some good mods out and I'm sure my old Statistics mod is uber-nice thanks to Acyd Burn keeping it up now
Anyway, point being that phpBB is open source so much nicer things can be done with it
http://rvr.nivisec.com/
http://ds.nivisec.com/
Here are two examples of using phpBB as a back end for a site actually. Those are old defunct sites of mine that were very popular at one time, but as my interest in the games went away so did visitors
I'm left with only one personal project (i.e. being paid for) and one more final this semester. Since I have tons of background in php, mysql, and phpBB I could probably help with this part of the project if so desired.
I love EQ, but got completely bored with the live servers because of the constant politics between guilds and the competition even in your own guild if it is one of the major ones. Plus the fact I am 100% powergamer and don't wanna play if I can't be one due to time restraints
I got my damn $10($12)/month worth!
I'd love to help with the actual project, but I just don't have the time currently to look through all the code.
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