Live Is Broke Again

[fathernitwit]

OK,
so as many of you know, the newest patch broke eqemu again. So we are back where we started a couple months ago. They changed a reasonable ammount of stuff besides opcodes, so we got plenty of figuring out to do.

The best way you can help is by playing on live and packet collecting everything you do. I will be releasing a new packet collector once we have enough of the new structs figured out. Until that point the old one will still make valid log files, but none of the other stuff (privacy/mobs) will work. Submit any logs to PEQ feature logs folder as described in the collector thread. If you want your logs kept secret, contact me and we'll make arrangements.

[gordonzero]

just a quick question about opcodes ... um ... woudn't it be posible to find the opcodes by watching the server log for the "unknown opcode" and figuring out what you did to cause it to happen?

[Doodman]

Well, that is what we basically do..

But considering there are currently 200+ unknowns, it's not quite as simple as you might think.

Plus, they have changed around some structures so those need to be figured out again.

[[BN]Shaun]

Is there any general ETA or guess of when you guys might have this fixed?

[solid11]

14 Days, 7 Hours, 47 Min, 23 sec....22 sec....21 sec....20 sec....

[Dr Zauis]

Originally Posted by solid11

14 Days, 7 Hours, 47 Min, 23 sec....22 sec....21 sec....20 sec....

I hope this is not some sort of a twisted joke!
If not...WooT!
/bow

[Tulwen]

If we reinstalled EQ with the CD's and did not patch would that get us going temporarily?

I'm just asking cause I'm trying to learn some about this and have a little fun with it before class starts back up next week.

[Dr Zauis]

Originally Posted by Tulwen

If we reinstalled EQ with the CD's and did not patch would that get us going temporarily?

I'm just asking cause I'm trying to learn some about this and have a little fun with it before class starts back up next week.

No..You must patch. That is why its so important to keep the EMU compatible with live..I dont know but I suspect that some day something like Winters
Roar will become toally obsolete and there will be no way to play it unless you were lucky enough to have been playing before..

So thank those Devs for their incredible insight to this game..I have found it to be very confusing compared to a "Normal" 3d game where the .exe and file
structures never change!

[yoshscout]

Ok i been doing the coding thing for quite a while and i was thinking, this may be the way the developement process is going but i may be wrong.

Y not split the developement team in 2 parts. One that is concerned with keeping opcodes running ie live compat team and one that is purely running for functionality. live team gets it compatible and then functionality team catches current version up to that level of functionality. i know this requires updated opcodes for all that functionality most likely but you get the idea.

This brings up a good question... where is the documentation of what we have lost from version to version?