What kind of programming etc do I need to know to start a server?

[GoldScar]

Title. If you know, please let me know.

[DrNarcisse]

Hacker

[Alecta]

http://www.eqemulator.org/
https://github.com/EQEmu/Server

[Langrisserx]

You don't need to know much, but you need the Internet with Server, Decent Hardware, the EQ NPC Database, and all the manuals and shit that Alecta listed.

even then you'll spend most of your time troubleshooting and say fuck it. I hope that saves you some time.

[Littlegyno 10.0]

pearls and squirrel

[Bamz4l]

got mine running in less than a day, even had to troubleshoot the outdated install guide, also fixed the SQL errors on startup (before realizing I just needed to manually run the latest update scripts)

[Potus]

No, no, no. You're going about it all wrong.

Get a job at SOE, steal all the source code (it's probably in a floppy behind a water cooler).

[runlvlzero]

u just have to deal with SQL and zero descriptive error messages