Publish 54 lasted about 6 years. We didn't really have any structure to releases back then and never really had a development and stable version. Publish 55 is when stable releases really started to show.
Saying that you can browse the repository at any point in time when a commit was made and...
I was trying to keep your thread on topic so you could get the help you are looking for. You canceled your donations already days ago so not sure why you are mentioning it now? Thanks again for the donation it was appreciated but we will still be here without it :)
ServUO is not for discussion...
Stay on topic please. Also this forum is not the avenue to talk about or bring up American politics or policy. While the US makes up a lot of traffic to ServUO it is still less than 20% of the total traffic, this site does not have the audience for American or any countries politics.
Correct, windows 7 cannot compile the latest distro due to support for .net being dropped by Microsoft on that OS.
Looking at the errors posted above though it looks like you did not copy every single file as it is looking for data that does not exist or you copied the files multiple times...
Ping is going to be a problem. I believe the physical limit of your lowest ping will be around 500ms depending on how far away the satellite is in orbit and then you need to add on ping to and from the service you are trying to access.
I would look into getting a DSL line built out you way if...
Windows 7 is not supported in the latest code base. You will need to use an older version. https://github.com/ServUO/ServUO/releases/tag/55.1
Please note you won't be able to update until you also update your operating system.