Hello I would love to contribute!

[aoneone]

Hello, I am a long time fan and ever since school finished for me, now I have plenty of free time to help out as much as I can.

A little about me: in 2001 I picked up Ruins of Kunark Eq1 at Frys Electronics from a friend who said it was good and at the time I remembered that I hated RPG's. I fell in love immediately and it got me to skip college courses!

Unfortunately, I ended up joining the US Navy late 2001 and had to give up games completely and after I got out in 2005, I picked up Everquest 2 and fell in love again.

I remember couple years later, the emu scene was picking up and I became a fan again and I would always check back to see how eq1emu and eq2emu turned out.

Anyways, I moved back in January and now things are settling and I'm happy and now I'd like to contribute anyway I can. I can be a bug tester, or run server tests, anything .. just let me know!

I'm not completely fluent in C++ but I did take courses in High School, I didn't do so well because for me it's such a difficult language to learn but I know basics and I ran my own eq1 server for lan parties and it was tedious yet satisfying hehe.

Let's see.. what else.. I'm a good cook! LOL. Anyways, I know December is a busy month for many, hope to hear from you guys in the future! ~Cheers and Happy Holidays! ^_^

[John Adams]

Welcome to the EQ2Emulator Community! We too love EQ2 - a far superior game to much of the trash being invented lately

For starters, get yourself a compatible client, be that Sentinel's Fate or Destiny of Velious, and log into the EQ2 Test Center server. There you can sample our content and game functionality. If you wish to get involved in helping the project, I recommend downloading our most recent ServerPack and running a server locally. Using existing examples in the database and the LUA Scripts folders, write a few simple scripts and quests of your own, spawn some custom content in your world, and see how it all flows.

If you are still interested in joining our team, let me know after you've given it a good evaluation. We have quite a lot of functionality for such a small team, and the learning curve is very steep, but (imo) rewarding.

Check it out and get back to me when you wish to take on a task.

[aoneone]

Welcome to the EQ2Emulator Community! We too love EQ2 - a far superior game to much of the trash being invented lately

For starters, get yourself a compatible client, be that Sentinel's Fate or Destiny of Velious, and log into the EQ2 Test Center server. There you can sample our content and game functionality. If you wish to get involved in helping the project, I recommend downloading our most recent ServerPack and running a server locally. Using existing examples in the database and the LUA Scripts folders, write a few simple scripts and quests of your own, spawn some custom content in your world, and see how it all flows.

If you are still interested in joining our team, let me know after you've given it a good evaluation. We have quite a lot of functionality for such a small team, and the learning curve is very steep, but (imo) rewarding.

Check it out and get back to me when you wish to take on a task.

Oh of course I do. I need a good challenge! The past couple of months I've been trying to get my hands on a stable client. If I can find someone to torrent one (I know its not allowed to discuss) but I'm definitely interested. I've tried Dark Age emus and eq1 emus and all had great fun.

I'd like to work on eq2 and have the same feelings back then when I played in 2004-2005. I had a level 70 iksar Bruiser on Zebuxoruk server. Boy, was I really proud of him ! ^_^ hehe.

In November of 2012, this kind fellow was seeding eq2 DoV but the link went defunct and Ive been trying to search mirc, and other forums but no success.

I know I know, I should just purchase the retail cd right? I'm just so against buying anything, I haven't bought anything since 2005 or so . Haha.

Anyways, I will try to see if I can search more, sometimes I get too motivated and determined and spend hours and hours. But hey, that might be a good thing no? LOL . ^_^

[aoneone]

Well I got a copy and got everything running perfectly this morning. I'm very impressed at how much eq2emu has progressed. I thought zones would have no NPC's but there's NPC's that gives quests and mobs to kill and even things to harvest.

The combat is looking impressive as well. I noticed the ?'s collection doesn't seem to work.

Is there anything I can do for that? Is it simple as locating it to a database and just linking it through some SQL work? Anything else I'd be interested to try as well.

This brings back great memories and I must say, this is much more polished than I thought! ^_^

I recommend downloading our most recent ServerPack and running a server locally. Using existing examples in the database and the LUA Scripts folders, write a few simple scripts and quests of your own, spawn some custom content in your world, and see how it all flows.

Well I will try to get the server files right now and then tinker around with the database and some simple scripts and I'll post my results. ^^

[Flunklesnarkin]

hello!!!

[John Adams]

Keep in mind we're re-writing almost all our original content with newer collects, so don't spend too much time bugging or fixing what you see on EQ2TC or the ServerPack. Just use them to learn the system, so when we do start content dev (early 2013 I hope!) you'll be able to jump right in and not make the same mistakes we did originally

Glad to see you made it on board, and yes, definitely do not share your methods of acquiring a client unless it was through direct purchase from SOE. Keeps us all out of hot water.

[aoneone]

Keep in mind we're re-writing almost all our original content with newer collects, so don't spend too much time bugging or fixing what you see on EQ2TC or the ServerPack. Just use them to learn the system, so when we do start content dev (early 2013 I hope!) you'll be able to jump right in and not make the same mistakes we did originally

Glad to see you made it on board, and yes, definitely do not share your methods of acquiring a client unless it was through direct purchase from SOE. Keeps us all out of hot water.

Well yesterday evening I got the serverpack files and spent a lot of time troubleshooting mySQL wasn't working correctly. Xinux from #eq2emu was very kind to assist me via 'teamview' and now I have my own server running with no hitches..

I must say.. I am having so...much..fun.. looking through each database values and tinkering with the numbers! I remember when I was doing this for everquest1 I would take notes and figure out what each value from the previous section would do and then make small adjustments through experimenting and such.

Oh, and I also want to add, the docs/ServerPackAdminGuide.html document is VERY well written. I mean it's so easy to read and step by step accurate. In the past, we had to dig around countless forums and threads and other websites because sometimes people were just too busy or it was too tedious to write up a readme and if that, the information would be incredibly out of date and I would spend countless hours just troubleshooting but not this! Only if more people would see how simple this is and get more devoted fans to try it!

So far I've messed around with everquest1, world of warcraft, dark age of camelot, but now Everquest 2 is my new hobby!

Anyways, back to more tinkering! hehe ^_^ ~Cheers

[Jabantiz]

Welcome, glad to see some more new names around here. If you decide to dive into the server code I will do my best to help as John said the learning curve is rather steep. My time is extremely limited right now so I won't be able to get back to you right away but I will get back to you if you have any questions.