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Old 09-01-2015, 03:50 PM
Droog007 Droog007 is offline
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Originally Posted by Ele [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Parsing your log file to use with a dynamic mapping program while playing was not possible, if you only had access to one physical computer, since EQ played in a forced full screen mode. The use of EQwindows or WinEQ technically violated the EULA.

It was possible to have a second machine networked to your main EQ computer to read/parse the log file.

When you have sense heading bound to your movement keys + other keys, it is pretty "constant" versus pausing to looking at a map and reading the long/lat lines trying to figure out where your most recent /loc would place you in relation to the map you printed out.

The outside use of log parsers for buff timers and mapping programs is an insult to the devs of this box that purposely removed or disabled those features to implement classic game play.
It's creative use of available information.

Maybe you should let them decide what is insulting?

If they didn't like it they could tell us not to use them ... most of us would comply.