Getting Started

This guide is for playing on the official TAKP server.

Creating Your Account

• Create a forum account at The Al'Kabor Project Forums. Game accounts are linked to forum accounts, so a forum account is required.

• Create your game accounts by clicking Game Accounts at the top of the page.

• Click "Create Login Server Account" and create a game account. Your forum account may have up to 10 game accounts, but you are limited to having three game accounts simultaneously logged in.

Obtaining the Client

This server has both a Windows and Macintosh client available. Currently the best way to get a client is to ask someone on the forum for a download link. A public and reliable host for the client downloads will hopefully be set up soon.

The Preconfigured Windows Client

There is a preconfigured client available that requires almost no setup. If you obtain this client, you need merely unzip it and run EQW.exe. From here you log in with one of your game accounts. If you get errors, try running EQW.exe as administrator.

A MD5 hash list of the client files is available.

Building Your Own Windows Client From Install Media

It is recommended that you download the preconfigured client, but it is also possible to make a TAKP client from old EverQuest installation CDs.

To do this, you need a copy of EverQuest from Planes of Power to Titanium. Note that you will still likely need to obtain some files from other users; see below.

Copy all of the files from a clean Titanium (again, older EverQuest CDs may also work, so long as they are PoP or later) install into a new directory. Then download EQMule's Al'Kabor Patch and unzip all of the files into the folder, overwriting any files already there.

Edit the eqhost.txt file to point to the TAKP server:

[Registration Servers]
{
"loginserver.takproject.net:6999"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"loginserver.takproject.net:6000"
}

The EQMule patch requires that your machine have the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) installed. If you get the error "Exception Processing Message 0xc0000135" when you run the client, then the cause is that you do not have the package installed.

From here you need a working default UI. If the game fails to load after server select, then it's likely because the UI from your install media is not compatible. (in the uifiles\default folder) You will need to ask a user for a compatible default UI. The Titanium default UI will not work.