Originally posted by Shayde What's funny.. a lead designer for $OE currently was "discovered" by running a shadow EQ shard.
You mean the guy was running a private server, SOE contacted the guy and gave him a job? I guess crime pays?
"There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now." Boba Fett
Unless you host the server in some remote country (Europe and North America do not count), you won't get into legal issues under two conditions: - You do not make money off the server (any kind, even ads) - You do not redistribute original client (customers need to get it themself) - You do not modify original art (textures, sounds, icons) or add to those
Also, anyone with active subscription to SWG using an emulator directly violates the subscription EULA and can be immediately and permanently banned.
This is based on EQ and UO emulators.
The EQ emulator that is currently in development can host 500 or so simultaneous users. From what i understand, even after considerable development it's still not complete.
SWG emu will be no different. It will to some extend provide login and gameplay functionality, but it will never be close to original game.
The reason for this is simply the sheer ammount of server-side information. Spawns, loot, skills, mobs are all what constitutes the majority of the server. Additionally, performance and availability of such providers leaves a lot to be desired.
Another thing will be xp multipliers. They will provide (as such servers do) accelerated xp, there-by leading to one thing - jedi explosion. And you're back at square one, might as well make jedi a starter class.
Simple fact behind these servers is, they are not ran in a professional manner, they absolutely lack the support, and are simply an attempt to recreate the original game. But the original game, to those that remember it, depended on the comunity. Player created aspects were the core of SWG, and the comunity on the free servers will be highly different. Not to mention the possibilities of exploits, which are rampant on such emulators.
If you liked the original game, you might as well stay away from these emulators. They might just ruin the fond memories of the past.
plz someone anyone send me info on this i would give my left nut for pre-cu. i would even start all over if i had too. it was a verry sad day for me when they destroyed the galaxy.
Simple fact behind these servers is, they are not ran in a professional manner, they absolutely lack the support, and are simply an attempt to recreate the original game. But the original game, to those that remember it, depended on the comunity. Player created aspects were the core of SWG, and the comunity on the free servers will be highly different. Not to mention the possibilities of exploits, which are rampant on such emulators.
If you liked the original game, you might as well stay away from these emulators. They might just ruin the fond memories of the past.
i have to agree to the extent that the Emus will never live up to the original game itself. but it might help in the struggle for a rollback and give SOE and LA a kick up the ass knocking some sense into them
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You mean the guy was running a private server, SOE contacted the guy and gave him a job? I guess crime pays?
"There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
Boba Fett
Here's the legal aspect.
Unless you host the server in some remote country (Europe and North America do not count), you won't get into legal issues under two conditions:
- You do not make money off the server (any kind, even ads)
- You do not redistribute original client (customers need to get it themself)
- You do not modify original art (textures, sounds, icons) or add to those
Also, anyone with active subscription to SWG using an emulator directly violates the subscription EULA and can be immediately and permanently banned.
This is based on EQ and UO emulators.
The EQ emulator that is currently in development can host 500 or so simultaneous users. From what i understand, even after considerable development it's still not complete.
SWG emu will be no different. It will to some extend provide login and gameplay functionality, but it will never be close to original game.
The reason for this is simply the sheer ammount of server-side information. Spawns, loot, skills, mobs are all what constitutes the majority of the server. Additionally, performance and availability of such providers leaves a lot to be desired.
Another thing will be xp multipliers. They will provide (as such servers do) accelerated xp, there-by leading to one thing - jedi explosion. And you're back at square one, might as well make jedi a starter class.
Simple fact behind these servers is, they are not ran in a professional manner, they absolutely lack the support, and are simply an attempt to recreate the original game. But the original game, to those that remember it, depended on the comunity. Player created aspects were the core of SWG, and the comunity on the free servers will be highly different. Not to mention the possibilities of exploits, which are rampant on such emulators.
If you liked the original game, you might as well stay away from these emulators. They might just ruin the fond memories of the past.
[quote]Originally posted by Rekrul
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Simple fact behind these servers is, they are not ran in a professional manner, they absolutely lack the support, and are simply an attempt to recreate the original game. But the original game, to those that remember it, depended on the comunity. Player created aspects were the core of SWG, and the comunity on the free servers will be highly different. Not to mention the possibilities of exploits, which are rampant on such emulators.
If you liked the original game, you might as well stay away from these emulators. They might just ruin the fond memories of the past.
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As opposed to??
i have to agree to the extent that the Emus will never live up to the original game itself. but it might help in the struggle for a rollback and give SOE and LA a kick up the ass knocking some sense into them
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; Copy from many, it's research