Hey, just wanted to put in my 2 cents. =-)
I think the info center is a great mod personally, there are only 1 or 2 problems that I really have with it. Currently, a lot of the data is out of date or unnecessary, for example. The UI tweaking information, some of it is good, and some of it is out of date, it was made when EQ first came out or close, there is data in there about how there are no Video Cards on the market that can run EQ2 to it's fullest and how 512meg Vram cards don't exist, but currently a single 8800 card can run the game in max settings, and there are cards with 768meg Vram. Personally I think that information would be better places in a text file and stuck on a website honestly, maybe submit it to allakhazam or something as a tweak guide, it's great info, but you would only really use it once, no real need to access it on demand. There are a few tabs in there that could be removed because of this reason.
The second problem I have with it, is being incomplete. You have a section for HQ's, but there are still several that are not done and there are tons of walkthroughs on the web for these. I really like the info center because it's right there and there is no waiting for looking stuff up. Even with the in game browser currently, it's too slow and it's missing a lot of normal browser functions, such as a visit history... so you have to always type in the full address and then search for your data, instead of having bookmarks. I personally would like to see completed projects, I sat down last night and copied walkthroughs from
www.eq2i.com for the HQ's that you had yet to finish, because I just found out that your mod is basically a bunch of txt files and it makes it super easy to modify. I haven't been playing the game long. =-)
EQ2i is a website that does not allow copyrighted information, so you are free to use anything from their site that you see. I didn't take credit for the info, I just copied it to the txt files so I would have it on hand instead of having to look them up on the site everytime I needed the info. It only took me about 15 minutes to get the data I wanted. I think the BEST future for the info center would be to make it totally customizable. Make it so that I have a huge list of things to choose from and I can determine what is and isn't shown in the game. Make it so you can change, and or remove tabs, buttons or information from within the text files. Then make it so people have a place they can upload information, such as a website, in the form of a .txt file. That way the users can make guides and such that they find useful and upload them to the site and then others can download them and incorporate them into their info center and you have a lot less work to do. The hardest part will be recoding the program, so that it can do something like that. I have a lot of ideas on how it could be done, but unfortunetly I don't know enough about visual basic to just do it myself and send you some examples. =-(
The mod is great and even with the implementation of the browser, I think it's far from being outdated due to that reason, it's just outdated due to lack of current material, which is a lot of work for one person to keep up with, and have any kind of life and play the game. lol
-Rashaka Swifttail, Mistmoore Server