Luclin was classic, PoP was not.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Toodles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Um what? Where is he going to get all the customized .xml files and sub-data? You think Nilbog will just casually hand that out to anyone?

You can start the emulated server..that's the easy part, and you could scrape together some default database files..that's where it ends.

Of course Nilbog doesn't share the P99 source or database, but you don't need either to run an emulator server.

Do you think P2002 or any of the other major EQ emulators magically stole everything from P99? Of course not: they used the stock EQ Emulator data, which is certainly good enough to get started, and then whoever is running the server tweaked it from there. Any non-classic server would have to do that, no matter what, even if they could steal everything from P99, because you can't steal Luclin/PoP data from P99.

Honestly you could take the stock EQ Emulator data, not change a single thing, and still make a server tons of people would play on. P99 didn't achieve success because of their ultra-classic tweaks; in fact, some might argue the server succeeded in spite of them. Building a successful server is about building a community, and that requires a lot of things like quality (and uncorrupt) GMs which have nothing to do with the technical aspect.

If someone wants to start a successful PoP (or any era) server their biggest challenge is going to be the non-technical community building ... not making sure every mob is in exactly the same place it was back in '99.