Items and levels for a small server.
 

This is a quest that I tagged on Galarono_McHalorsos in the bazaar on my server. I chose him because he had no quests assigned to him and he is in a central location. The quest gives him the ability to summon players certian items to make their lives a bit easier on a small server with a population of about 5 players.

This script will give the player the choice to obtain the following:

- 3 guide packs if the player says [bags].

- gm pants (bard speed), celestial sword (gate), gm boots (lev), earing of the Z (nice regen and stats), gm gloves (100% Rez) if the player says [special items]

- Your basic set of mage summoned pet gear if the player says [pet gear]

- An Adventurer's Stone if the player says [Adventurer's Stone]

- 10 vials of Armour Dye if a player says [Armour Dye]

- A joke about the epic if the player says [Epic]

- And finally a choice of levels to level the player up to with the max being 50.

I changed this a bit to require a donation to the NPC for the items or levels.

A few other changes that were made:

- Removed the adventure stone since it is obtainable now via the regular quests.

- Added the ability to purchase AA points from the NPC

- Added the ability to purchase 1 level at a time from the NPC

- Removed the old leveling options.

Without a large playerbase I have a bunch of players with a lot of plat and nothing to spend it on. So I figured I would make this guy a plat sink.

Wow, that's awesome! :D Thanks for the contribution.

Edit: Think you can do one for spells? Ever since Sony changed it to get spells at every level, it's getting harder to hunt them down since most of them we can't get due the zones being unavailable (Nedaria's Landing) or the NPCs not being there like in Freeport. And don't even get me started on rune spells, lol.

I think if there was also a way to scale down the HP and MP for mobs for low population servers would be awesome as well. There's no way everyone can experience content if there's a required amount of players needed for something. Bots are awesome, but there are limits still.

I will see if I can add in a spells line when I have the time.

Here you go. Updated to scribe spells at the current level of the player for 500 plat.

Cool. :) Yeah, it totally caught me off guard when I got the message about heading to the home town or wayfarer's camp to get my stone appeared. I was completely overwhelmed with glee. Heh.

I was looking for something similar about lowering the HP/MP ratio on the server, and remembered someone wrote a solo server SQL batch for WoW. Here's a small sample - maybe someone can take this and run with it. These values are completely different with EQ's but it's something for reference, really. I tested this back in the day, and it was completely awesome. Got to see content I never would have imagined this way as well. :D

This made it so the 40 man instances and stuff were perfectly accessable for a small group.

Elite mobs hit harder and have way more HP, so there was also a sql entry to tone them down a bit.

I'm not SQL savvy, but it would be nice to further customize EQ along these lines where maxhp > 10 million could be fixed to reresent something less daunting for a small group.

Wow, that's awesome. Thanks a bunch! :D

I'll test tit in a bit after I go kill myself outside in this 100+ degree weather. =/

Your welcome. It seems to work well on my server. I put the script through its paces. Just so you know if you want to use Galarono McHalorsos as the NPC he is in the bazaar in the central area with all the NPCs standing around in a circle. He is near one of the exit tunnels. Big barbarian guy.

Name the script Galarono_McHalorsos.pl and put it in the bazaar directory. Dont forget to chmod +x it!

As for the SQL stuff I am not sure. May want to consult someone that really knows the db well on that one.

If you like that one you will love this one.

I wrote this one so I could give some players access to the #summonitem command without actually giving them any elevated privileges on the server. Most of these quests I am writing are there to reduce my gm workload on the server.

I call this one #summonitem proxy

I put it on the big skeleton guy in Cshome named Krakskull. You can put it on any NPC you want. Basically it just allows a player to tell the NPC an item ID number that they get when they look up the item with #itemsearch. Then they just say the number to him and he summons the item to thier cursor.

more info on this script here

New version of the Items and Levels for small servers quest.

This one adds the ability to reset your AA points for a fee of 2000 plat. Since the new AA reset quest function boots the player from the world in order to reset the points I made note of it in the quest text. That way players don't file bug reports about the quest crashing them.

Oh wow. You're a machine. Thanks for the updates and new script. :)

Thanks. Please provide feedback if you use them. I am still learning. and know there may be better and cleaner ways to do what I am trying to accomplish with these scripts.