Wassup guys long time.
Put together a server tonight in about 10 minutes. Nice server pack. Ran the updates and connected through eq2emulator.net login server after creating the proper user and world information in the local mysql database.

Anyhow guys its a blast to be back and I hope I can be of use to you both.

Cheers,
EmulateS

Welcome Back EmulateS.

A lot has happened since your gone, I'll start with the obvious I'm the Community Manager around here. The lovely face to go with the greetings!

Most of the developers are quite busy with real life stuff, and it's been pretty quiet around here. I don't really have that much technical knowledge so I'm trying to help as best I can.

Unfortunately, Lethal has left the project. He left a few months back, because he felt it right to move on and leave the project in the very capable hands of John, Zcoreti, Zexis, and Scatman. It's great to have you back, and even better that we have another developer!

Thanks ilythor,
Congrats on Community Manager, couldn't have gone to a nicer guy and you keep things rolling smoothly.
Good to be back. I'm a bit saddened at LE's disappearance, but I understand how it goes with real life kicking your shins when you least expect it.
I'm working with TSO box set looking at posts in regards to John's Server Pack 1.2 until I log onto Tess and verify version of core he is using, I'll probably find it in "motd".
Hope to get my hands dirty rather quickly and see where I can best be of assistance.
You and the dev team are more than welcome to PM me anytime, I'll do my best to help out where ever you all start pointing.
As I've seen John mention several occasions, "I'm a good robot", well I am as well.


Going to paste an example of what the design document was when I worked on my EmulateS emulator for Star Wars Galaxies maybe we have something similar maybe we don't, but it sure would be helpful to have something similar to the following:

http://www.box.net/shared/znho218rg5

Thanks, and as far as I can tell: You find something that's borked, and you can fix, then fix it.

I'm not really sure of our design layouts, akin to your per'sae. But I'm sure there was a discussion a while back about objects etc. Let me see if I can dig it up for you.

Just a quick look around, hope they help.

That's how we run our databases, the big posts are what you should read.

Stuff to read about how we run our content.

Internal stuff about our databases.

Oh, and the wiki!

Thank you ilythor
I'm grabbing a cup of coffee, read those posts, and digging in. I'll keep you posted as I progress, bud.

No problems, it's my job!

Just keep the database discussions in the database, content in content etc. We don't mind as many new threads we create, but we like our threads to be relevant and on topic!

Myself as well and last time I'm off topic but I can't resist.
Don't make an assassin and load into timorous deep. race human sex female. take the first quest: Tykor Gi'Lok quest: "poaching the poachers"...
Ok I can't stop laughing, he turned into a giant crab posting pic up on the box, link follows.
http://www.box.net/shared/50od91bxrl

Great, it's gonna take me hours to stop laughing!

A GIANT CRAB!

I'm glad I wasn't the only one laughing their ass off all day!

My TSO out of the box, not patched, is SOE Build 5040L
Tess server is not responding at the moment, the world seems to have crashed but not shutting down. The infamous "there was an error that prohibited the server from letting you play" manifested. I've seen it posted in the forums when John mentioned Tess had a crashed previously yet the world did not shut down properly.
Going to test both x32 and x64 builds, until Tess is available, but obviously I wont have the up to date database.
I believe I am shooting for a client core upgrade to SF and moving forward if for no other reason than my current box sets are RoK, TSO or SF. Patches not available, I'd much rather deal with One last upgrade to the client and suffer the pain of correcting xml, structs, opcodes, etc.
I will edit this post after I have tested SF out of the box (not patched), verifying a second time that I have it working albeit with some issues. I have already been able to connect once, the new UI files / xml will force a need for new structs for certain.
Be back in a little while with a response.