Sandstorm, the EQOA test server
by Xylof/joukoq

photo by Muuv Stehpah
Links
How to
To connect, modify your network settings. Set DNS = 139.162.238.221. Use an empty memcard (without any EQOA data). You don't need savestates. Both Frontiers US and the original Europe/PAL version should work.
The original US pre-Frontiers version is not compatible at the moment (working on that).
You will also need
Status
What basically works:
- creating account
- logging in
- creating characters
- moving around
- rudimentary combat, 1 melee attack, a few abilities
- friendly pet and healer NPC
- a few test NPC's placed near Darvar Manor
- now also using a database of over 15,000 NPC's from Dustin Faxon
- simple combat AI
- chatting, who list, emoting
- coaching/teleports
- preliminary pathfinding
- preliminary looting and inventory, incomplete
- roaming NPC's in certain areas
What doesn't
Notes
talking has infinite range, anything you say is heard by everyone
NPC heals have infinite range too
- NPC's don't aggro players unless you attack
- ogre sometimes shows up in character creation, sometimes not, reason unknown
Contact
xylof at kiekko dot tv