Question - What Is the Diiference between Legends, Preferred, and Standard Servers on EQEmulator.org?

[Gekko]

To keep my options open about EQ going forward, I have been poking around and trying to do some “research” seeing as I have only played Live and Test. I had heard about Project99 and saw various references here on RG about Project Lazarus. I initially thought I would try Lazarus but when I started poking around EQemulator.org, I saw the server list, and it had three major groupings / headings but I was not able to readily figure out the meaning of the groupings. Additionally, what does the “U” mean in the version column.

Sorry about the stupid questions. I am a total emulator n00b. Be well.

 

[Algar]

Opinionated BS that the login server owner made up.

 

[Gekko]

Opinionated BS that the login server owner made up.

OK. I wasn’t sure if servers in each group had common features or content or whatever to make them similar, so I guess the groupings of Legends, Preferred, or Standard have no real bearing on anything? I would imagine,then, that the color coding is also meaningless?

@Algar thanks for the fast reply. Much appreciated.

 

[psatty82]

OK. I wasn’t sure if servers in each group had common features or content or whatever to make them similar, so I guess the groupings of Legends, Preferred, or Standard have no real bearing on anything? I would imagine,then, that the color coding is also meaningless?

@Algar thanks for the fast reply. Much appreciated.

The groupings mean absolutely nothing. The color schema means absolutely nothing. There’s no commonality between them in any sense like you’re thinking. Best advice: view the page as one long list of servers.

Also of note - while clicking on a server gives a general over view of the server details, a lot of that stuff is out dated. If something piques your interest, best bet is to hop on the server specific discord and check their updated server info.

For example, some servers may state a box limit of 3 concurrent toons, but the server devs removed that limit and never updated the eqemulator listing…

 

[kaleep]

All servers get standard category when they load up. If the server seems to attract a lot of people it gets preferred. If it's been around a while, and contributed to eqemulator it can get classed as legends. that said going from standard to preferred to legends is totally a judgment call that the people running the login server use.

 

[nitramneb]

Pretty sure the "U" just means server is UP.

 

[microscope]

I think the Legends servers got labelled as that because they have existed for a while and/or had high populations at some point. The Preferred servers are similar. The Standard servers are newer or lower populations. Some of the big ones will be transferred to Legends at some point. But as mentioned above it is pretty meaningless and kind of elitist and silly. Still I would avoid the ones with very low populations like 3 people or less because many of them are people who just made their own server for themselves or are testing something. You can click the View next to each server and it usually gives you info about what the server is. If it has an explanation of what the server is then it is probably a good place to play.

I think the U means that it uses modern clients / server setup. The only one that is not U is Quarm which is .com which is using an old client so no in game map, no extended target window, fewer hotkeys, etc. It also has oldschool rules too.