ServerFilter=0 changed to ServerFilter=1
Source: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/ind ... ng.203272/
March 27, 2001
- Added server-side filtering for chat and combat messages. This will
allow you to turn off guild chat, shouts, auctions, oocs, 'my misses',
'others misses', 'others hits', 'attacker misses me', PC spells (all
options), NPC spells and Bard songs (all options) at the server instead
of at the client. This can reduce that amount of data sent to you over
your connection, and can help those with slower connections with better
performance and connectivity.
To filter out this stuff, in-game just go to Options > Filters tab (Alt-O is the default to open Options, I believe). Then on the Filters tab, just change the settings to what you want.
It will then no longer show up in any chat window.
What ServerFilter does is, in addition, is have the Server not even send you the stuff at all. It is not necessary in order to filter what goes in the chat window. However, using ServerFilter should reduce the bandwidth between your computer and SOE's servers. It might also slightly speed up your computer since it no longer has to filter out the stuff, although I'm not sure about that part.
To enable ServerFilter, find the file "eqclient.ini" in your EverQuest folder and edit it. In that file should be "ServerFilter=0". Just change the "0" to "1" and save the file.
I'm really hoping one of the programmers at SOE spots this thread and realizes that (unless there was a stealth change) SOE has been wasting the bandwidth of both SOE (which must cost SOE a bundle) and the bandwidth of the players and they should change it to default to "ServerFilter=1".
Cleaning up the eqclient.ini by removing "ServerFilter" entirely and having the client just filter by default unless "ServerFilter=0" is added is just a nice extra that I think is good programming practice to not clutter up ini files with unnecessary lines.
Indeed, to deal with the thousands of players who are currently playing with ServerFilter=0 unknowingly wasting bandwidth, SOE should patch their eqclient.ini files for them, with, of course, it mentioned in the patch message so that those who wish to set ServerFilter=0 (maybe some parsing program requires it) can do so, while 99% of the players who don't need it can save both themselves and SOE some bandwidth
-The THF team