3 newbie questions...

[MindMage]

1st - none of the NPCs I talk to will talk back or offer quests (Merchants seem to work). Is this because all of the quests are handled serve side at Sony and so EQEmu cannot duplicate them?

2nd - when I fear a mob, they don't run...instead just standing there. Is this again because Sony servers provide pathing info to feared mobs telling them where to run too and without that they just get a "0" and remain motionless?

3rd - Is it a known issue to have items randomly drop when you zone only to have the re-appear a few zones later? I've tried reloading my database with the latest dumpeditems.sql but to no avail.

Thanks for any info.
MindMage

[animepimp]

1. You can use EQ Emus perl or qst formats for writing all the quests you feel like, but none are included in the releases so you have to write your own. Look for tutorials in the Quest forum.

2. Yeah you have the problem exactly, the server jsut doesn't know enough about the zone to really generate a path so fear spells have been changed to stun spells.

3. Yeah theres a bunch of other threads trying to figure this out too.

[MindMage]

I appreciate the info bud. Any chance that there is going to eventually be a "quest pack" that lets people download quests just like we do items?

MindMage

[Jezebell]

Web Quest Directory (http://quests.eqemulator.net/cgi-bin/news.cgi/)

[toffie]

I looked around on that site... nice goin with a new part!!

but I can't seem to find any collection file with all quests
finished collected in one file. perhaps there isnt one?
but how to download quests?
or

And also... is all the quests in Perl format?

and as we said earlier... the quests are serverbased...
so we never get the same as on the real servers?
could be nice though, have new quests :)

well, let me know!! :)

[animepimp]

and as we said earlier... the quests are serverbased...
so we never get the same as on the real servers?
could be nice though, have new quests :)


Yeah you will not get all the same quests as on Sony's servers because the code for them is on the servers. If you really want you can spend hundreds of hours going through each and every pointless little quest on their server and all the possible ways of doing each one and then write a quest on your server that does the exact same thing. Then you could upload that code here and a lot of people would like it, but it wouldn't be worth it because you just wasted all your free time for months to do it and the majority of those quests are not worth it. Its much better just to come up with a cool idea and implement it on a server instead of having to go through each quest several times to see if it has multiple ways of finishing it and then think of how to make sure you can copy it exactly. Plus most of the custom quests I've seen on all the servers around here are infinitely better than the ones on live.

[toffie]

ahh okies... well that sounds great...

but is there any dload links for finished quests?
or do we have to write em all ourselfs?

or is it just me who is a little bit too fast for the quest site?? ;)
will there be download links to packs with quests soon I mean?? :)

[smogo]

Search harder :something there is called "perl_quests.zip"
http://quests.eqemulator.net/cgi-bin/files.cgi
'could be a start.

[toffie]

oh damn :)
so sorry mate!!

but now I'm searching for a guide or perhaps
some information just about using Perl with Win32 server...

how to get them together and work?? :)

I tried quest creation and also the Win32 forum...
I can't seem to find anything :cry: :cry: :cry: :)