New install

[Rayjinn]

Currently i only have the original disc of eq2, is it possible to patch it to RoK? I did the digital copy for RoK so i have no disc... any help would be great.

Thanks-

[ZexisStryfe]

That is not possible. Your best bet is to patch tolive and wait for us to make it so the live client works, which will prolly happen after the next GU in Sept.

[Rayjinn]

ok so i will patch to live and wait.... i guess i can play untill you guys catch up. Im sure there will be a update notification on the forum?

PS. currently how many players are on your server?

[ZexisStryfe]

We are currently in Alpha, which means the Emulator is not fleshed out to the point that people can play like on live, although we are getting there. Feel free to sign onto TessEQ2 once you can and play around!

And yes, there will be a notification on the front page.

[Rayjinn]

Ah so i will be playing solo then? Or just scattered numbers on different servers?

[Zcoretri]

Servers are up/down a lot except for the TessEQ2 server where most of the development/testing is going on.

[wolfeedarkfang]

I have a question related to this so i thought i would add it here rather then pop up a new topic. I have 2 computers and on one of them i have a outdated eq2 which is 5609L. Is there by chance any version of EQ2Emulator that will accept that? EQ2Emulator 1.1 wont let me use it, but i heard it's supposed to support older clients.

[Xanibunib]

http://www.eq2emulator.net/index.php?page=16

[John Adams]

You should certainly not bother using EQ2Emu 1.1, whatever that is and use the latest binaries from SVN or at the very least, the package 0.6.5 that was released earlier this year. If 5609L is supported at all, it will be in the latest versions.

Otherwise, wander over to the 3rd-party tools forum and check out the patcher. This tool is not supported by the project necessarily, so if it doesn't work, you'll need to buy RoK or TSO disc sets. No patching required using those.

[Weeman0000]

Iv also got a few questions relating to a new install.

Just installed the game last night, done the trial account, started updating, its now [1360]

Is there been anymore patches since the 16th of july one?
Will the trial account download all the addon files ect?
Where did i put my lighter :O

Thanks XD
Jason.

[Xanibunib]

I recently ran into an odd problem the other day where I had to patch to live and then use an older client I had saved. I'm not sure what changed but if you fully update the trial account chances are you "should" be able to play if you use the emu patcher to get a working client version.

[Weeman0000]

if you fully update the trial account chances are you "should" be able to play if you use the emu patcher to get a working client version.

So the EQ2EMuPatcher should work if there's been another client update then? Good.
Do you know if it will download the addon files? obviously wont be able to use them on the free account lol, but im guessing once u buy them u wont need to download 4 addons?

Iv got a real EQ2 account, but if i can get away without buying the game again then that would be great lol, 3 years of payments went into the other one :p


[EDIT]
It seems to be downloading faydark and sinking sands stuff so it should have all the addon stuff right there for the emu huh?
And i wont need to pay for a month to patch it if i can just make a trial account each time i need to update?
Can someone confirm this lol, don't want the past 3 days of patching to be a waste of time XD

[John Adams]

The thing about Clients for EQ2Emulator, once you get one that works, you won't need another one until you desire functionality that your client does not support. This is why the raw, unpatched ROK and TSO disc sets are the only ones supported officially. The fact EQ2Emulator allows clients that are currently "live" is merely a by-product of our development effort. It comes out as a bonus to players who have Live accounts, because their clients can simply be pointed to EQ2Emu when they want to check out an emulator.

And no, there is no guarentee that SOE delivers the entire game to a Trial client. Thus, compatibility with EQ2Emu is not likely. But, test it out, let us know your steps. Could help a lot of others out if it works.

Though my final opinion on the matter is, it's worth the 20-40 bux as a one-time fee to pay to SOE in order to take part in the emulator project. It's the least we can do to keep the SOE beast at bay

[Weeman0000]

It's the least we can do to keep the SOE beast at bay

Rofl, well i think its not going to be coming after me, iv spent over £300 over 3 years lol :p

But yeh ill see if i can get it to work, its almost done 1h 3m

Im only doing it like this due to the fact i don't have RoK box, just normal eq2 box, + wasn't smart enough to buy the addon's on cd lol, just DD so i cant get them, But other than that i shouldn't see why this method wont work.

Update a client to live.
Seen it downloading addon files.
And if its over shot the supported client then ill wait.

[EDIT] It has overshot the EQ2emu, [build 5831L] but ill wait on youz patching the login server, im in no great rush just yet