Something I want everyone's Oppinion on.

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Darian Maliken

Dalayan Beginner
I understand that everyone here pretty much came here because this is an alternitive to sony's EQ servers and 'community' that's sprung up around said servers. I like how things are, I honestly and truely do. However, and this is just me thinking out loud, would it be possible to, at some point in the future translate the basic world concept, lore, and all that to a non eq based game? I understand I might brand myself as stupid by saying this but wouldn't the fact we're using everquest's game client for our own activities end up raising some sort of legal mess if sony decided to make it a priority of thiers to hassle those that run things here? Trust me, I know creating a game client plus server code FOR that client, especially for a game world as complex and lmassive as Dayala, would be the equivilant of climing Mt. Everast with no climbing gear but just for the sake of arguement. If an alternitive client existed that gave comperable preformance would the community here be interested in switching over?

And no I don't happen to have anything ready to pull out of my robes....its just something that, if I can learn a few things, I was potentially going to look into as a use for the torque game engine since it already has the capasity to work with a fair number of clients per server(tribes 2 was designed with a max of 64 players per server and I've seen servers out there with over a hundred or so...not near enough for our needs at peak times but its food for thought especially if more can be handled).
 
We were actually creating this, known as Dawntide (DT), but it is currently on hold while we're working on implementing a lot of new content for SoD. Note that I'm currently not part of the DT dev team.
 
Considering the page itself is down would anybody who's on this project be able and or willing to give me any real infromation such as game engine and other nuts and bolts type things? I honestly doubt I'll be able to help but I know a few people who might, and reguardless this interests me.
 
It's my (albiet limited) understanding that a portion of the people who used to be working on DT are no longer around, and that this has inhibited the design process the focus has shifted back to SoD.
 
Using the client that we purchased for something other than the purpose intended by the maker does violate the agreement you make with them for playing their game, and they are certainly within their rights to deny you access to their game when you break this agreement. That is pretty much the limit of what they can do.

If we want to use the software to play another game, or as a glorified IRC client, or whatever, that's up to us.
 
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