Ok this is making me mad, mobs hit like once every 20 attacks
 

I even took off all my gear im down to like 1600 ac, and the mob still missing 90% of the time. Does anyone else have this problem or does it sound like my mob is bugged or corrupt or something, i restarted my server also.


I think i figured out why hahaha, ill have to try that, my skills are 400 and i forgot about that.


hmm still not hitting as much as it should and i only have 3500 ac

Ok i kinda fixed it by setting mobs accuracy to 13000, if anyone knows a reason this is happening plz lemme know

also had to set level to 95 instead of 90, players max levels are 85

This is happening to me too. I was using emulator rev1887. This problem didn't start till after I updated my emulator revision recently. Because of that fact I got curious and reverted back to 1874 and the problem went away.

I think this is the same problem that KingMort reported here:

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33438

I think the Raid Addicts max level is 87, Astal said his server max level is 85, and I am going to guess that blackdragonsdg's server goes above 75 as well. Also, I assume that characters who are level 75 or less on your servers are working as they should.

Thanks to blackdragonsdg's note about reverting to Rev1874, I think I figured out the problem is from Rev1875:

Skill caps now use the MaxLevel rule instead of being hard capped at level 75.
http://code.google.com/p/projecteqem.../detail?r=1875

Since skills are pulled from the Database, and the skills table only goes up to 75 (from PEQ), then any level over that is probably causing weird skill issues for your chars. The solution is to either fill in your skill_caps table to have skills up to the max level of your server or we will need to modify the source to make it max out at whatever the skills_caps table maxes at. Probably the second solution is best in the long run, but in the meantime I will try to get a download up of the skill table I use that I pulled directly from the EQ client skillcaps.txt file that goes up to level 85.

Trev, related question - how far up can I set a skill cap value?
500? 800? 1000? before I go beyond the point that sever can work with the value. Basically I plan my server to go up to level 200, with 5 skill points per level - that's 1k skill

specially i worry bout things like weapon skills, offense, defense, dodge etc - will very high skill value break the proper server calculations for combat?

also a separate question:

for things like Dual Wield and Double Attack skill, does anyone know % ratios for the skill to go off?
Like let say my DW is skill 100 atm - what does this equals to % chance that my off hand will swing? Same for double attack?
And of course the Double Attack for the off hand?
some sort of formula to convert SKILL to % chance would be nice =)

I noticed this problem when I was setting up my server, its pretty easy to see something is wrong by using the #maxskills command on a char over level 75 as it sets all skills to 0.

Since I ended up using a non live-like solution I didnt get into commiting anything. If you update the table with all skill caps up to 85 it doesnt really solve the problems for people with max level above 85, so at some point the code will need to be changed to either figure out what the max skill is and use that regardless of what the max character level is.

Chaosslayer, I would not recommend you do your skills like that, once you get close to 400 defense mob hit rate gets retardedly low unless you overcompensate with ATK/etc. If you do choose to make skills go over 350ish, then you will want to adjust all the combat code, or at least look at it so you know what you are doing.

Yea its in the code, got to do research if you want to change this type of stuff without screwing your server.

Awesome guys thanks a ton. I put the changes in and compiled hopefully this will fix it. Now if only I could figure out the SOD / SOF issue my server would be pretty much back to normal.

Max Level on Raid Addicts atm btw is 100 so hopefully this fixes it all the way up to 100..

Mort

yeah that's exactly what I worrying about, that mobs won't be able to deal with skill above 400 or so...
On other hand, mobs SUPPOSEDLY also take their combat skills from the DB (a dev said this once)
so a level 200 mob should also have his offensive/defense of a same skill as a layer would.
can anyone confirm on this?

Theres nothing to compile lol...

[quote]On other hand, mobs SUPPOSEDLY also take their combat skills from the DB (a dev said this once)[quote]

Have you ever looked at the source Chaos? You post so much shit that would be answered by just having a quick glance at it, especially since this server you are always talking about sounds so custom that by now you should be pretty familiar with the source.

Just a confirmation that my server has a max level of 85 and both toons that were in use at the time this problem showed up were level 78.

[QUOTE=Caryatis;199485]Theres nothing to compile lol...

[quote]On other hand, mobs SUPPOSEDLY also take their combat skills from the DB (a dev said this once)first of all not every developer is a coder.
and second, does it really necessary to be this rude to get your point across?

Hey so is there a newer build now or what do we do to fix this?

I have r1887.

Do i need to go back to r1875 or do I just download those files and recompile it myself?

k i see we have to compile

damn it im lazy :P

If you reverted the two small changes to shareddb.cpp in 1875 it should be back to the way it used to be.

Alternatively you could extend the skill_caps table in the DB which gives you more flexibility if you wanted to raise the caps past what they were at 75.

Another option might be to add a different rule for the max skill level and use that instead of max character level. That would give you flexibility to set both of them independently as well as extend the table if you wanted to.

That's just his style, that and lying and cheating and gaining peoples trust then stabbing them in the back.. No one should ever trust this guy within 2,000 miles of their servers source or database.. I wish there was an option in these forums to add some one to ignore because Carytalis would be the first on my list.

Anyway I added these skills Pending Trevius to come out with a better list for up to 85 with proper numbers. This one is up to level 100 but you can cut off what you don't want. They are basically just all the skills locked at the skill levels at 75 so just a temporary fix you should backup your table first before adding this.