I would comment on this topic from the view of someone new to the server within the last week. I indeed assumed this was just the norm of the server. Clunky emulation coding and low end budget server resulting in a buggy / laggy game play. But I just ignore it for the most part cause I'm having a lot of fun playing classic style eq again.
I too am a developer though. I agree the project could benefit tremendously as an open source project. I have always been a huge supporter of open source, and it generally makes things so much better when you have hundreds of people that can contribute instead of just a few with time limits.
However, due to the nature of what this particular code is, I don't know that it would be a good idea to open source it. Lots of people play this simply to play the game. If you open source it, you will suddenly have people with no interest in making it better looking at the code to find every possible bug they can exploit. Not really something that is good for the game at large.
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