Soul Binders
 

just a quick question here, is the soul binders working at all or are they totally broken? hail does not seem to work on the mobs as i get no dialog.

Soulbinders work fine provided PERL works on your machine and the quests are in place.

Quests dont appear to work at all. Correct?

They are working fine on my server using the latest code and database.

sorry for late response, i have the perl all loaded and i installed the things i was supposed to, but what i am finding is that if i go hail someone i do not get a response, i have put the quests in the quest folder as the pdf said to, is there settings in mysql that need to be updated? i look into the quest sections in the query browser and i do not see any in the global_quests, so it appears to me they are not install, i did the mysql from the command prompt to source load_system.sql and the player.sql, i am not sure if this has to be done for the quests, i know they are pearl based quests but i am uncertain if there is a command i have to put into mysql for them to run the quests correctly. another question ... do i need to keep the perl package manager open?

Make sure your quests are one directory deep from the directory world runs in.

I.E. If your server lives in C:\eqemulator\, the quest sub folders should be in C:\eqemulator\Quests. It seems like people sometimes extract the files into a directory like this .. C:\eqemulator\Quests\Quests\.

Close the PPM if you're done installing/upgrading or whatever.

Quests are not installed and don't go into the database. They are just files that sit in a directory and are parsed at run time.

Quests can read/write key-value pairs to the quest_globals table on a per character basis and use them for things like flags and storing steps in a multistage quest or something.

ok so i checked my eqemu_config as everything was installed and in the right places

as this was the default directories i am thinking it was not pathed right, i have to test it later tonight

<directories>
<!-- <maps>Maps</maps> -->
<!-- <quests>quests</quests> -->
<!-- <plugins>plugins</plugins> -->
</directories>


so i changed it to this

<directories>
<!-- <maps>C:\EQEMU\Maps</maps> -->
<!-- <quests>C:\EQEMU\quests</quests> -->
<!-- <plugins>C:\EQEMU\plugins</plugins> -->
</directories>

i hope this does the trick, i am not getting any quest errors they just didn't work, thanks for the info.

Well, first of all, you have to unquote them;
to
It's quoted so you can see what EqEmu defaults too, and if you want to change.
This probably will not solve your problem , and you should set it back (don't confuse yourself anymore).

What might be happening is, your Perl is not being found by EqEmu

He said quests are working just not hail?

Is that right?

no it was my sourcing for sure, i fixed that and removed the quotes. i have to test the server again to see if it is working for the quests. but no quests where working and hail was not working if i cannot innitiate with the hail the quests will not work anyways i don't think. i am going to look into the perl and see if angelox is correct and eqemu is not finding the perl.

ok so i was looking into the problem a bit more, i hail the soul binder and no response i hail my guild master and it works. everything is sourced properly to the directories so i imagine that what angelox had mentioned that the eqemu is not set up to work with perl, but this is what i do not get, i set up the pearl the way i was supposed to and added io-stringy and the other two packages, is there other settings i am supposed to do, do i have to place another path somewhere in the pearl or somewhere in the config files? i'm not trying to confuse myself, i am trying to get it to work the perl is a default install but the location to eqemu was not. if that helps any

If any other NPC in the game replys, then Perl is running ok - there's one more thing I can think of; there is one directory that comes in quests that should be outside of quests (in the eqemu/server/ ). I'm at work and can't remember the exact name, I think it's "templates" and there should be a "c:/eqemu/server/templates/" with the general soulbinder pls in there. if not, move them there, from inside /quests. Again, I may be wrong on the names, but somthing similar to "templates" should be in /quests (move or copy all the pls you see there to the one in /server) .

plugins folder

Thanks Dargon, it'll be the "plugins" folder instead of "templates", so everywhere above I mentioned "templates", replace with "plugins".