Um wow. Maybe i should try to clear a few things up.
LV has been in the killing business for years, and in many games. EQ, DAoC, SB, Planetside, etc. We love PvP. We played as a guild on GW, but when it became apparent that there was GM Corruption we spoke out, and were criticized, called liars, and banned from the server. devn00b told us to prove it, and we provided the
PROOF. Then told us to "F"-off and make our own "Effin" server. So we did. I'd be lying if I said there wasn't some bad blood between us (always liked image tho) but the n00b was a pain. Our guild abandoned GW and myself an ex-Microsoft developer, and a guildmate who is a CS major at CalPoly decided to take devn00b up on the challenge and make our own custom pvp server. We've had fun doing it and appreciate the work the eqemu team has put into the project.
We planned on being part of this community and held no grudges. Made a ton of fixes to the code. The day before we planned on releasing full group fixes among other fixes, Stenky (the other LV Emu dev) was banned from public Login server (not GW, Login server).
Not only did he ban our server from eqemulator login, but publicly posted on our boards that the day it went up he would personally trash it. Turns out he had already handed out our emu login name/pass to people like Harney and his friends when our 'closed beta' server was hosted on your emulator login. devn00b and his friends also attempted to
HACK our website many times with SQL injections but failed.
Thats about the time we wiped our hands clean of anything related to eqemu. We never /ooc spammed ads for our server on GW. Our website gets over 1 million hits a month (we've made alot of friends and enemies over the years) and had no desire to take thier players or announce our intentions on thier server. Those were disgruntled GW players doing that which we had about as much control over as we do the weather.
As for the EQCrypto - with a little help from an unnamed EQIM trillian plug-in developer we got it. In fact have a C# version, but it's unstable as hell, so we went with a customized minilogin (using a forum login/MD5 encrypted pass/IP/ASP/Anti-Spoof) solution. I'm surprized how well it runs actually.
Now that devn00b has left the eqEmu team, i don't see why we wouldn't release our
FIXES to the emulator community when we feel its ready for prime time. To be frank, we are still leary of using the Emulators Login server. We've actually given our source code to two Emulator server owners so they can have our fixes. We have over 690 registerd Open Beta testers, and the hardware/bandwith to handle them. I think we'll be knocking many more bugs out - as our desire has only been to have a 'balanced' and fun EQ pvp server.
RexChaos - you're a good guy and overly helpful. Thanks for the kind words and your database help.
I guess thats all I have to say on the matter. At the risk of being accused of "advertising" again, I'll end this post (assuming it doesn't get deleted ... most of our previous posts have been deleted by devn00b and our eqemu forum accounts banned).
Ghecko
Lucid Vision Emu Developer
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