Actually someone at this website could easily compile a yearly version in a few minutes. Please stop denying the obvious. Do not lie to me. I (now) expect many of you, on this forum, personally run those companies trying to sell compiled versions for a monthly fee. Thus you don't want to do the obvi...

Incorrect. It takes essentially no time for a person, once a year (with a working compiler) to release a compiled version. I will probably try to reinstall my compiler in a few days (and hope I get lucky and it actually runs.) But then maybe I'll just delete it all and get a new game. But I will not...

> How does it screw people randomly? It's guessing. People who don't use compilers all the time are going to be guessing what to do and hoping for the best. I previously guessed the settings right (years ago) and now this time I (apparently) guessed the installation settings wrong. So now I have to ...

> make sure you select to install the C++ compiler I did. And I don't think the eqemu website has a version of this software anymore. > They want you to put a certain amount of work into getting MQ2 working But that kind of screws people randomly. The last time I compiled this, years ago, it was a b...

I do not need the newest version to play on free servers that allow macroquest. I just want very basic features. I have read the manual/wiki, followed the directions to compile, downloaded the updates, and I'm still getting errors. I google the errors and get advice for old versions of visual studio...