So this thread was about another server which is being created by old p99 players. Cool. Off topic, kinda. It's still about an alternate eqemu classic pve server which could be considered direct competition. I don't care about that. Good luck to them!
Now, it's about what people think we should do with our source code and how we possibly 'fetter' the growth of eqemu. Are you kidding me? Since releasing p99, we brought new people to eqemu. If they choose to play here or elsewhere is their business.
I have no problem with To0p or anyone else building a server. I do have a problem with people telling us what to do with our hobby. The goal of eqemu's stock code is to mimic eqlive; not classic eq. We have put tons of work into the server and a lot of that work isn't even desirable to eqemu itself. At this point, the source, the database, and to an extent the perl scripts are all proprietary. EQemu has been around since 2002. I joined the eqemu community in 2007 as a player and started developing in 2008. In that time, we somehow have something everyone thinks everyone else should have? Huh, wonder why.
Where I think you are very wrong is that releasing our source changes would bolster eqemu. Source contributions made by less than 5 developers are somehow stopping everyone else from succeeding? They always had, and still have the opportunity to make these changes, but do not. I'll tell you exactly what would happen. There would suddenly be 10-20 new servers all with no boxing, 1 boxing, 2 boxing, and every minor change imaginable. That would fracture the existing players into multiple corners where there would be no general consensus of what should be happening. The truth of the matter is consolidating work into a specific area and working towards a specific goal yields results.
Open source: It always sounds good in principle, but that's certainly not always the case. I wouldn't have needed to create project1999, because it would have already been done by a community which worked better being completely open source.
tl;dr: Turning this off topic thread into what you think is wrong with p99 is not cool. If you're going to use bandwidth of a server to complain about that server, take your gripes to the appropriate area of that server's forums. Or, better yet, keep it to yourself. The fucked up complaining I read here was definitely not 'off topic'.
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