Testing is going on right now (alpha) on various servers currently active. Some of these servers are already taking a "custom" path, but there are 2 servers remaining true to EQ2 Live for development purposes;
- EQ2Emulator - the Core Server project
- TessEQ2 - the DB Project server.
Both of these you can log into and check out functionality, test it, report bugs. This is ALPHA - which means nothing is
expected to work, but a lot does. Daily, new things are tweaked/added/fixed.
BETA starts whenever EQ2Emulator 0.8 gets released, and that date is "to be determined" - possibly 6 mos to a year out. That gives us 2 more versions to add fixes and enhancements til "Release 1.0", where the community takes over and keeps the emulator project alive - which might be another year, depending on who's doing the work.
You want the project to move along faster?
Offer to help somewhere. Coding, gathering packetlogs from the live game, helping with the DB since there are maybe 4 people helping with the database, and while they are doing a fine job, we need 20 more. You would not believe how much data supports these games...
ichijin wrote:When its done.
Indeed. Without continuing support from the community, it will take that much longer, bottom line.