eq offline?

yeuxdesoir

Dalayan Beginner
hi, ive played eq since launch and i played WR for about 4 months, but what i'd really like is to run eq offline and mod it to be singleplayer. does anyone know if this is possible? i have a couple years programming experience,but havent done anything in a few years. any info would help. send me an email at [email protected]


p.s. sorry if this isnt the right place for such a post
 
ya but is it possible to play it offline? i cant seem to find anything that says yay or nay or even an admins email addy to boot :(
 
if you set up EQ Emu to run on your own PC (or network) and you point to that IP (127.0.0.1 will always hit your own PC), then you should be all set. When EQ runs it will connect to the server, which happens to be your local PC. End result is you are playing offline, although the EQ client will not know the difference.

This is strictly theory, since I dont know the specific code used in EQ Emu, but basic networking makes me think it should work.
 
There was a discussion about this on eqemu forums, I don't think it is currently possible to play "offline." Not to say that you can't host your own server and play.
 
Wasnt there a way to play offline through some hack, that allowed you to walk around like its the demo, in any zone? I recall our guild exploring Vex Thall in the early days preparing for it that way.
 
If their minilogin is working, I think it should be possible, but you might want to ask on their forums, instead.
 
I can tell you 100% that it is possible, as my friends and I did this shortly before trying SoD.

What we ended up with was a computer running as a 'server' and it was hooked into our little LAN, and any time we brought computers over, we could all play. On top of that, you COULD run EQ on that server and play locally there as well though that lagged things a bit.

Minilogin is what you use for logging in. On a side note, minilogin uses your ip address to manage your account login... you could log in with account name adsgadfh and password pooh and if you had the right ip address, it knew who you were. I wrote a webtool and we did some other tweaking that ended up letting you use minilogin over the internet (still not that safe thanks to ip spoofing/masquerading) and we played that way for a bit. So we were able to play local (same machine), on a LAN and over the net.

So, yes, whatever it was you were wanting to do, it's completely possible (UNLESS you want to have a public, distributable, open source login server that is based upon user names and passwords... you'd have to packet-watch it yourself and try to figure out using the EQEmu code and the packets you see to work out the loginserver code).
 
awesome will try, ive got everything dl'ed but hvent had time to set up yet.

one more question. i was looking all through the guides and couldnt find where to edit code to add/modify items


if anyone knows id greatly appreciate it. :D
 
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