New map desktop app coming soon (as long as it's still kosher with p99 rules)

[Zuranthium]

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

So, instead of being miserable, wouldn't it make more sense to just be happy with the wonderful, free, and very-close-to-classic emulated EQ server that the developers have given us, and not get hung up one really small (in the grand scheme of things) piece that you don't like?

It's not small at all. I was thinking of playing again on the Red server. But with this in place? No way. What's the point?

[Champion_Standing]

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

It's not small at all. I was thinking of playing again on the Red server. But with this in place? No way. What's the point?

This man is clearly a connoisseur of immersion. What is your immersion threshold for wanting to play? The average player must be at least 50% as immersed as you? Maybe 40-45% is more realistic.

[Ahldagor]

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

1. No one is here to play your static snapshot of nostalgia any more than they are here to play mine. This server is not all about you and what "classic" subjectively means to you; EQ is many things and many feels to many different people for many different reasons. Most overlaps, but some doesn't.

2. "Classic You" would have sht their gamer pants over this logfile GPS hack for exactly the same reason Classic You printed out the entire EQAtlas site. For the daily classic player, utterly shameless spoilers were a given, remember? So long as it obeys EULA, anti-spoiler = anti-classic.

3. Logfile GPS was technically possible in '99 and just because it didn't bubble up to the surface doesn't mean it's "not classic". Have you listened to the description of it? Binding loc to movement keys, community programmers hacking log files into a makeshift GPS to produce a crude live map? Sht is classic af.

4. 100% parity with your nostalgia isn't necessary to recapture the fun of classic. You're playing P99 in 2014, not EQ in 1999. It's close, but it's not literally the same in every detail and it never will be. So ease up on the Captain Classic zealotry, it's a guaranteed path to your own disappointment.

5. No one wants to see P99 burn. Just because someone has a different definition of classic from yours doesn't mean that person respects classic / P99 less than you. We all respect it, that's why we're here. So long as it follows the rules, have a little faith & flexibility in the community when it comes to changes that deviate from your expectations of the perfect classic experience (see: #4)

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[khanable]

I tried to made it work, just got a blank command prompt

Pretty sure all my pixels are gonna vanish now mysteriously

[Reguiy]

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

It's not small at all. I was thinking of playing again on the Red server. But with this in place? No way. What's the point?

Went to type something out, then thought of this -

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[Yonkec]

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

It's not small at all. I was thinking of playing again on the Red server. But with this in place? No way. What's the point?

In all fairness, do not forget this is nothing extraordinary or unprecedented in scope. He didn't birth anything that your or I could not do on our own, were we to be educated in the means. I am certainly not perhaps you can.

The obvious solution is to remove /loc on red!

[tristantio]

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

I tried to made it work, just got a blank command prompt

Pretty sure all my pixels are gonna vanish now mysteriously

Did you run the exe instead of the bat file?

I put up a README (and you can view formatted on my github posted in the OP).

If the thing launches without issue (the exe) you'll just see the REPL (the * prompt).

Running the bat will launch the exe and your default web browser opened to the localhost:4444 URL this runs on.

Ambrotos, not sure what you're talking about a virus (maybe trying to spread FUD)?

All the code is open sourced on my site, you can compile it yourself, also I've had problem free auction tracker exes for log uploading available for the last 2+ years on p99.

[Bboboo]

I keep getting http://localhost:4444/ could not be found. I take it this is an issue on my side? Any quick suggestions for a fix that I can just google.

[khanable]

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

Did you run the exe instead of the bat file?

I put up a README (and you can view formatted on my github posted in the OP).

If the thing launches without issue (the exe) you'll just see the REPL (the * prompt).

Running the bat will launch the exe and your default web browser opened to the localhost:4444 URL this runs on.

Ambrotos, not sure what you're talking about a virus (maybe trying to spread FUD)?

All the code is open sourced on my site, you can compile it yourself, also I've had problem free auction tracker exes for log uploading available for the last 2+ years on p99.

haha dude I was poking fun

I'll try the readme tonight, I'm sure it was just user error/me being sloppy/rushed

[tristantio]

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

I keep getting http://localhost:4444/ could not be found. I take it this is an issue on my side? Any quick suggestions for a fix that I can just google.

Look in the console that opened with the browser, if it says something like "NIL is not a STRING value" it means your EQ path could not be found automatically.

In a future release I'll have some more helpful setup interfaces so you could just browse to it etc., and set the path.

For the time being, make sure you have in settings.lisp a line such as:

(setf *eq-path* "C:/Your/Custom/Location/")

Note that you need to remove the ;; (semi-colons) in front of the sample path, and include the trailing slash (and use forward slashes).