Cleaning up the world

[Cynnar]

I have not been working on anything else on this project, so I started cleaning up the duplicates that was determined to slip past John's mass pop script. I will post current Zone I'm working on with updated information.

It might take me a 100 years, but I will not let it deter me.

Others are welcome to join me in this endeavor, I will not mind one bit.

[Cynnar]

Over the weekend I cleaned up the mass population of Dread Guard spawns. They are now part of several spawns for one location. Meaning each guard in Neriak now has multiple guards that will spawn randomly when the guard is killed, respawns, etc. There are a few locations that I have not completed this task, but it's a small amount.

This zone had anywhere from 2 to 4 duplicate spawns for each NPC in the zone. Well there were a few that only had one, but it was very little. These have now been removed taking out the shimmering and glitching that the spawn overlap causes. If anyone sees any that I missed, let me know so I can delete them.

Doors are working. For devs, I have also updated the name of the door to reflect the shop/building where they are located. One in the underground I could not find a name for, but it reflects that it is located in the underground. Again if I missed something let me know.

Started with bringing movement to the zone. Current only two guards are walking their paths. Both are on mounts, but I ran out if time when trying to locate the correct mounts used. It is also set to a random chance the guard will get a mount. I was testing this out and will be removed soon.

[Cynnar]

Not much to report this weekend. Think I got the nightmare and the Warg mounts the correct color and models.

Added a few patrol paths to a couple more guards, a few spawns, and started working on adding menders and list to merchants.

[tyrbo]

I guess I should mention that on Stitch we've cleaned up some of the lower level zones (CL and Antonica at least), as far as duplicates and player pets and stuff.
There's still multiple spawns for like `a gnoll`, when there could just be one reused over and over, but yeah.

I think someone else cleaned up some zones on their server too... Not sure.

[John Adams]

It's been a long time since I stuck my nose in where it doesn't belong

But everyone "cleaning up on their own servers" doesn't really help Cynnar and EQ2Emulator.net at all. The data is not shared back. Even if it could be, it'd be a nightmare to /stitch/ together (seewhatIdidthere?)

Anyway, carry on.

[tyrbo]

I've made the same comment in Discord.

[Jabantiz]

Any one who wants to clean up zones I will more then happy set them up with the status in game and on our web editors. All changes made to the EQ2Emulator server will benefit every one as its db gets put onto the content svn once a weak or sooner if I manually run the scripts.

They just have to let me know here on the forums so I can get them set up.

[Cynnar]

As of right now the only way I know how to keep everything in one place is to work on the content on the main EQ2Emulator server. Any other way will end up making things harder.

Even if it could be, it'd be a nightmare to /stitch/ together

I called out to the devs here asking for help on content at the beginning of the year. Nobody offered to help, so I didn't pursue it any further.

[Cynnar]

Had to cut this weekend short. Work needed me to head out today. I did manage to get a few things done Friday night and Saturday.

Indigo Hollow, New Foreign Quater, and Dockside Markets in have patrolling Guards, working doors, and merchants have items for sale. This includes the merchants in The Underground as well.

[Ememjr]

It's been a long time since I stuck my nose in where it doesn't belong

But everyone "cleaning up on their own servers" doesn't really help Cynnar and EQ2Emulator.net at all. The data is not shared back. Even if it could be, it'd be a nightmare to /stitch/ together (seewhatIdidthere?)

Anyway, carry on.

i agree , thats why i havent cleaned anything up on mine yet, lol
but would it not be so cool to have a tool that would allow one to export spawns from EMU for individual zones, so that if someone creates has there own server they could just import the zone to thiers , ie if my server was only up to level 50 and no content past that, i would not want to wipe my entire db just to get the new content,
i could export the sinking sand zone from emu or they could be a nice download package that included spawns and such, and then also the scripts,
take it to another server and import it and viola instant new zone with the basic setup of all

anyway just a dream

[Cynnar]

would it not be so cool to have a tool that would allow one to export spawns from EMU for individual zones

It's not exactly that, but I believe all tables are dumped separately as well. You could then source in the spawn tables and not touch anything else.

I realize this will overwrite any custom spawns, but if someone is customizing zones then they are probably not going to update their database with ours anyway. After all the mass pop gave plenty in the zones for people to make custom zones. I could he wrong, but if I was building a custom server, I would not need anymore content than what is already available.

But I get what you are saying. Something visual would make it easier to see what is going on.

[Cynnar]

By the way why do we have ho starter chains? Sounds like someone could get into trouble in a few way with starter chains for ho's

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Edit:
And what is a ho wheel? Never mind I don't want to know.

[xinux]

Heroic Opportunities

http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Heroic_Opportunities

[Cynnar]

a few issues while editing things today. First There is an object (at least 2 of them) that are dead npc's on live. I don't know how to work with the object for this for a few reasons. 1. If I set the object to a model type then they are bald. 2. On live the appearance changes at some point.

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There are some missing in the zone as well. I cannot create these with the /spawn command. Need to add these in.

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[mention]Jabantiz[/mention] the teleport pads we were talking about, you mentioned For teleporters you would use the teleporter table, but there is no teleport table. There is a transporters table and I am assuming that is what you meant. I also have no way to add to that table if it is.

There are issues with moving spawns not actually moving between waypoints. They just seem to teleport to each spot. A /reload spawns will fix it where I am standing in the zone, but when I move to other parts of the zone there is a 50/50 chance that at least one of them is doing this.

I still have one spawn that when you left click to target it will give you the you are not allowed to loot at this time. I removed all but one of these spawns, in case anyone wants to debug this. Spawn is Lirdtza Do'Qhamtor loc -90 11 277 in Neriak.

[Jabantiz]

Yea it is the transporters table, sorry about that. Also I thought I added an editor to eq2db2 for that.