Multiple questions and issues.
 

I want to first start off by saying thanks for all the help you guys have given so far. There appears to be a great community here and it is greatly appreciate it. I hope one day I can contribute in some form.

Let me know if it is general preferred to have multiple threads of single topics versus one thread with multiple topics like this one. I try and not have the appearance of a spammer.

I use a new windows server build from 4-18-2016. I test everything on both a RoF and UF client. For the below I also copied over my VM and ran every single update using eqemu_update.pl. It did break my bots but the purpose was to verify if the below was a problem with something being outdated.

1. Charms do not work. They display item descriptions but do not have any stats. They also do not change the stats of my character. I checked just in case it was a display bug or something.

2. For spell effects, some focus effects and several AA abilities, I get Unknown DB String messages. The UF client will often show a completely wrong spell on an item. Had a newbie weapon showing a 4000 nuke proc. I had a posted before about detrimental focus effects showing zero in the item descriptions and I am thinking all of the above items are potentially linked somehow?

In the thread about the focus effects someone mentioned spells_us.txt (Which mine is empty but my spells_en.txt is not) and another knowledgeable gentleman, dbstr_us.txt? If so, is there a way to generate, or a place to download, a proper version of these files that is compatible with base installations of EQEmu for both the RoF and UF client? I have not and currently do not plan to modify any spell, AA abilities or foci.

3. The next part could definitely be my lack of knowledge on content. I haven’t played EQ in 5 years and haven’t done LDON even longer.

I have been unsuccessful in getting LDON raids. The raid recruiters do not respond to me, hails or right clicking, but the adventure recruiters do. I have tried South Ro, North Ro and Everfrost so far. I have set MinNumberForRaid and MinNumberForGroup to one and restarted the server. I have also invited a friend to a raid to test. I notice even after the change it still required two people to get a group mission. I assume my problem is not enough actual people in the raid? I did summon bots and not sure if they count here.

4. With number 3 out of the way, I gave up and summoned Shard of Eternal Pain to test out. I always wanted one of those on live and never got to test one out. The problem is that when it tries to pro I get the error message “Unable to find data for pet SwarmPetLDONSar.” This is the only proc I have had issues with. The shard does show in the database. I assume there is a possible data entry error for Shard of Eternal Pain?

That is it for now and I realize it is a lot. I don’t mind doing some leg work so feel free to suggest me testing something, or trying something out, then reporting back my findings. I try and research online before posting questions and have solved a lot that way but the above I haven’t found any solutions.

As usual, thanks in advance for taking the time to check out my post and help out.

I had a nice lovely young lady send me a private message about number 2. She let me know that I could run export_client_files.exe to generate the spells_us.txt and dbstr_us.txt files. I ran the program and generated the files without error. The spells_us.txt file was around 28 megs and the dbstr_us.txt file was completely empty except for Major^Minor^String(New). I copied these two files over, overwrote the ones in the client directory and then tested. Sadly, this broke all foci and AA. Every single item then had the Unknown DB message.

The part that has me curious is before all this my spells file was completely empty and the dbstr file has a lot in it. Now it is the opposite.

Is my server exporting properly? I will test cloning my VM again and again doing another full update to see if that changes anything.

It sounds like you have some major database issues. I'd start with a fresh database and make sure you do everything correctly.

Last I knew, ldons cannot be set to 1 person as its client sided. You should deal with this issue last as it isnt a database issue like the others.

I will build a new VM today and do everything from scratch to test. I shall report back.

I was noticing with a Raid Recruiter in Everfrost named Qileour Bahiael. Has a script in quest folder for "mirb". NPC won't respond simply with the adventure stone in your inventory. grabbing a regular adventure and zoning in to that will auto add the stone to your keyring (41000), then after that Quileour will respond to hails. I had the "min raid" set to 2 in the rule values and this npc had no prob giving it to my two testing toons after the keyring thing. (script calls for keyring check)
That is the only raid recruiter I have found (so far) that will do anything.

That very well could be it. I have not actually completed or done a mission. I will test that later. It very well could be that simple. Thanks for the information.

EDIT: I just noticed you said that was the only raid you found that worked. Hmm. Maybe someone else will chime in with their experiences with this.

My thoughts are 2 steps ahead on that one. Unfortunately, I noticed, (which is understandable) that successful server owners could be reluctant to give out secrets. (chuckle), so we're left to google everything and with no results, our hair falls out. :P

Not all the LDON raids are implemented.

SwarmPetLDONSar is on PEQ, not sure about the most recently released DB though.

Just the answer I needed, they all are not implemented. Do you know which ones are? Or is this a thing of checking the directory and seeing which NPC has a file?

The item entry for the shard is there and the SwarmPetLDONSar shows in the item entry as well. It is why I believe it is possible there is a potential typo. I am currently building up a fresh server to test some things to see if somehow I was unlucky and my three week old database got corrupted. Hopefully it will not be too much longer.

EDIT: I am going by the wiki and 8-12-2015 seems to be the newest PEQ database I was able to find.

Thank You Mr Demonstar, it helps a lot simply knowing that, just so we're not googling the fingerprints off our hands with dead ends (chuckle).

Okay, I have rebuilt a new server from scratch and also tested a month old AKKA prebuilt package. I get the exact same results. Charms do not work and when I try to use the export client feature, it still creates a 28 meg spells file and an empty dbstr file except for the following entry, Major^Minor^String(New).

At this point it seems to be an existing problem for the above items. In AKKA's installation the Shard of Eternal Pain appears to be working. Not sure why it doesn't work in any of mine.

I just tried the Shard of Eternal pain on a fresh new server install (not a prebuilt one), sourced a fresh db in and with underfoot client, the aug clicky worked fine. I put the aug on a 65 chanter using Serpent of Vindication weapon.

Could you test two other things then for me? See if charms work for you. Something like the lost coin should be a good test. Also, create an export folder in your C:\Eq\EQEmuServer and run export_client_files.exe and see what size your dbstr_us.txt file is?

Thanks for the help so far!

EDIT: Do you vary much in your procedure from the Wiki write up?

Just equipped that lost coin id 80088 ? If that's it, it gave me stats, nothing great.
Hp 6, Mana 8, etc. The dbstring I got is 4.2 MB

OH WAIT, Sorry, the dbstring I copied over from my client and imported it to db. I do that with every fresh install.