here is some info about the pet construct, it didnt read as it was totaly fixed but might be a thread to keep an eye on

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18731

cool, posted my findings... :) Hopefully they will figure it out.

:) noticed, i hope so

I'm just happy my merchants work lol

I tried out the perl version they mentioned, compiled yesterday it crashes before even loading, though i could just be really tired and messed it up somehow lol

[edit] oh yah, i can't type now, must be tired

the post with the zspassword what password will that actually change?

I've redone it yet again, but still getting the same error. I'm starting to think it's not something that i'm doing wrong, because i followed the steps correctly all 3 times. I don't know what else to do, i tried re-extracting the file you said to, and it's still not working. If anyone can help, i'd really appreciate it. Thanks

i know you already said you followed it to the letter...

But maybe you have a zone.exe in your folder.. and its trying to run off that?

Is your boot5zones have start zonerperl instead of start zone, in them?

Should look like this in the middle of the file:
Easy way to check would be see if you have a zone.exe in your folders, if so delete it, then rerun and see if your boot5zones even works at all.

Also did you fix the logs errors? All you should need to do is create a folder for that... should be easy

hehe, dont actually know myself but it made the error stop. :)

where do i look to find the number string for paly epic weaps?nm found it

though the delete button under char select doesnt work anyone know how to delete a char?

also found something else i dont knowhow to fix.... i zoned from highpass into highpass keep and now im in a continuous loop trying to load into the keep

In the database there is a table called character_ change the zonename of your char to something else north, example freeport's zone name is freportn (if your faction would allow you to go there). You might end up in a weird place do to the x,y,z being different, but you can type #zone [zonename] after you get logged in, if you do the #zone [name of current zone] you will get moved to the safe point in that zone.

at lease thats how i got mine back to working....

Zone names are the file names without the extension in the maps folder, use them with the #zone command.

hope that helps :)

well the problem is i cant type anything it tries to rezone me within a milisecond so i cant rezone myself even when i login it loops this

these are the steps i did

1. changed database characters_ zonename to freportn
2. logged in to the game
3. came in somewhere under the world
4. typed #zone freportn

/shrug
you might try changing the value while in the game, during the zoning loop...

I'm not sure otherwise....

Ok I might be rather dumb on this Q and over looked the right thread using search and such.

But a couple things.

1. The guide is great, I got it up and am playing on it but I want to now have the server run on my one comp as it has more ram and less CPU power, while I play on the other comp which has alot better Cpu/ and almost as much ram.
Off to search some more and hopefully find my answer for this one.

2. Quest related file error. When I zone into Thurgadina I crash and get perl quest error from Lorekeeper E. I attempted to look at the lines it said was messed up but it seemed fine to my noobish attempts of figuring it out.

err's
 

for some reason I keep getting error 2006 when I run world.exe "mysql has gone away"
I have tried rebuilding the database as well as completely removing and redoing everything. I would be greatfull for any help.
also I was wondering if the Vel DB contains all the old kunark DB data as well?
thanks,

Calabeth,
for question number 1:

I run my eqemu on another machine here, this is my set up

on the "server" machine running the eqemu, it also has my database on it, lets say its ip is 10.10.10.10

my boot5zones.bat file looks like this, at lease the parts that get changed
start zoneperl . 10.10.10.10 8780 127.0.0.1

note: the [start zoneperl] might be [start zone] if your using the non-perl version

If your running the database on the same machine as the eqemu then the db.ini shouldn't need changing.

Next to update the database, for example i created an account called goober (hehe, really i did) if i wanted to be able to login using my goober account on a different machine, i would need to update the database with the following

lets say my pc i want to login with is at 10.10.10.11 then i would run the following to update the database
update account set minilogin_ip = '10.10.11.11' where name = 'goober';

if you want to dump your existing database you can use this:
mysqldump -u username -ppassword database_name > FILE.sql

then to import it on the other machine:
mysql -u username -ppassword database_name < FILE.sql

this file could be very big, might take a bit to import (fyi)

for question number 2:
sorry i dont know, just now getting started in messing with the quests, might try deleting the file for now /shrug

Hope that helps :)
vRandom

Hehe thanks, I moved the file outta the way for now and it works fine.

Not understanding the dump reason really. Though all I needed on the comp playing eq was an edit to the eqhost.txt such as host=10.10.10.11:5999

and that would be it. DB,World,minilogin,zoneperl are all on the other comp hehe.

lol yah forgot that step.... phone rang when i was posting :) it would need to be pointed to the machine hosting

notice the troublshooting tips :)

if you dont want the errors create the file and put code below in it (file should be in the directory with world, zone.. etc)

found it somewhere in the forums, but i can't remember where

Thanks for all the help vRandom, i will try that out and see if it fixes the commands.pl error on mine. Youve been very helpful!

when you see mysql has gone away, it usually means your server cannot connect to the database. So somewhere in there you have a problem. It can be a number of places, you could have named the db incorrecctly, you could have not put the right name in the db.ini, your sql could be shut down or not on... I would check to make sure your mysql is running properly and ou didnt acidentally name is something else than what is in your db.ini.

About the velious db, yes it includes all of kunark, i was surprised, but it does.

Also please check the first two posts, i will be updating them as fixes come in to make it the best guide that i can.

ok by know you guys know i got my emu running and been havin fun....thanks i wantavr4 for all the help and guide and others here who have been nice on giving info....

so here goes another question. do quest work or will they need to be set up cause i was gonna do the armor of ro quest for my pally and when i hail the npc they dont say anything

(Fix for #2006 Lost connection bug)
code: SET PASSWORD FOR 'usernameforDB'@'localhost' = OLD_PASSWORD('newpasswordhere');

ok got all fixed seems I still have an error though
when trying to enter world I get disconected server shows the following error
[Debug] unable to convert EQ opcode 0x071e to an emu opcode

For the quests, you might have to make it or check the quest section out to see if anyone has already done it. In your EQemu Directory go into teh Quests folder. From there goto the zone the quest starts in and see if the starting NPC has a *npcname*.pl file there, if not then no quest.

i checked the load_system.sql file in the quest folder and it has the char names and molds of ro in it for the quest... i dont understand where you mean to go to find the *npcname*.pl is this ingame?

it should be in the following location, eqemu dir\quests\zonename\npc name.pl

example my quest for north freeport would be in the following: c:\eq_emu\quests\nfreportn\nameofnpc.pl

there should have been a lot of directorys created when you unziped the quests zip file.

vRandom

ok so i should have default.pl, drop_system.sql.drop_users.sql,load_empty_users.sq l, load_system.sql, commands.pl(thanks to above), convert, channelog,

and 129 folders in the C:\EQEmu\Quest


will i need to resource my database cause i did forget to unzip quest zone folders into C:\EQEmu\Quest
just unzipped it now eventhough i have had everything all set up

I dont think so on the resourcing the db, just find a npc and hail them, if they talk then the pl files are at lease running or try a quest npc.

note, not all of the npcs say anything...

I havent made it up to actually completeting any quests, or even getting one, got a big project that has to be done in 3 weeks, grrr so my time is way limited now - and i was having so much fun

vRandom

well i read up on the quest says each person that gives the mold has a certain faction to see if u have good enough faction i have to go to the appropriate npc and ask them "am i an honored member" but they never reply
but i have the freportn folder in the eqemu/quest and the chars name is in it with the text for the armor quest

sorry i can't be much help on the quest problem Aradorn. Other than making sure the perl version your running is actually executing, i'm not sure otherwise.

There is a guard by the nfp bank or any of them in front of the cleric guild area, (i think) if you can hail them and they say something then i think thats a good test for if the perl is running.

:(

well in my boot5zones it says
[quest] loading perlemb plugins.
[quest] loading perl commands...
[quest]loading perlemb plugins.
[quest] loading perl commands

now will my quest not work if i unzipped it after i set everything up...

i forgot to do it when i was going through all the steps could this be the reason why?

Cool, but HELP!!
 

Great Job on the tutorial!!
I'm so close I can smell the character creation screen... but I'm having issues

I've got everything done with one exception. Because I couldn't find a pre 5/11 patch, I just reinstalled my cds (EverQuest Platinum, released last fall) and didn't patch. I run the Minilogin, World and then 5zonebatch and launch the eqgame-patchme shortcut. I get all the way up to logging in and when I login I get a windows FUBAR error saying "World.exe has generated errors and needs to shut down". Could this be because of the version of EQ I am running? Do I need to install an older EQEmu version? If so which one?

Thanks :)

Yes it sounds like the version your trying to run is a mismatch. Even though it was released last fall doesnt mean it will have the most up to date files. The files on Disk are probably the basic files of each when they were first made and still need the patching.

Try finding some of the 6.1 servers that are already up as a few offer a patcher that helps ppl be compatible with playing on them. What ye do is patch to live then run their patchers.

Awesome thanks!!! I'll give it a try :D

Okay no more
 

Hey people... STOP PMing me about the patch. I cant help you.

Next PMs i get about it im either going to start reporting or will just delete them without replying. Depending on the mood im in.

This isnt in response to any of hte posts here, just the PMs in my box!

Please don't destroy me..
 

Ok I must be much thicker than most, so please do not killed me I read every post on this thread to make sure no one experienced the same problem..

Step 4. I extracted the DBD/DBI etc to their own directories, I go to cmd line and get to their respective directories (the one that contains the .ppd file) i type
etc etc..

I keep getting this error.
you say in PPM type the install line... I'm not sure I follow what PPM is.

Well any insight into this would be much appreciated!

Before you do that, type PPM

Ok I typed:
I still got the same error, perhaps I can understand the problem more if I understood what PPM is ? thank you for your quick response, and again my apologies to post such a simple problem.

Did you install Perl correctly? If so, type PPM... once that loads type your "install soandso". Not all in the same command.

Indeed i thought I had!
 

Hmm, I figured it was an initialization for perl. I ran through the installation just fine and there is a perl folder in my C:\ so I was assuming it went fine. I tried typing PPM first but i got the same error, perhaps i'll try running it again and see what happens, thank you very much for your continued support mrea! It's appreciated :D

You don't type ppm until you are in each directory

Example.

c:\>cd\temp\io-stringy
c:\>ppm
ppm>install io-stringy.ppd
ppm>exit
c:\>cd\temp\DBI
etc. etc.

Got it!
 

Excellent, I could've sworn I already had tried that before but third times a charm eh! thank you very much everyone *bow*