Zone Names and Points
 

I wasn't sure where to put this, but anyway...

On my server, as a side project to the actual legitimate EQ server I am trying to run, I am trying to develop Middle Earth online (aka Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien). You will be able to go only to certain zones and they will be connected like that of Middle Earth. For example, Rivervale will be the Shire and Kaladim will be the Mines of Moria.

Here's my dilemna: I am starting with the empty 0.4.0 DB. I want to change the names and zoning points of many of the zones. How can I go about doing this? I tried loading up FQAdmin, but the default DB has an error (line 1, no less) so it does not even get to loading zone information. Anyway, I have read around the forums that FQAdmin's changes do not affect zone points or something like that. If someone can help me figure these 2 problems out, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance and please do not steal my idea, hehe.

You can do a couple of things.. You can change the shortname in zones to whatever you want it to be, it will still load the same file on the client side though.

Be alot easy to learn a little sql and do it directly in mysql though..

update zones set zonename='Shire' where zonename='Rivervale';

etc would do it, I dont know if you could change the longname and rename the zone file on the client, that would be a hassle. You would have to have someone run a batch file on there machine to rename all the zones to match your zonenames, so I'd just try changing the shortname for a start...

Thanks a lot. I'll give it a try with the sql coding.

BTW, anyone know how to change zoning point? Can i do that directly in mysql too or is that hard coded into server or in *.cgf files?

You should be able to change zonepoints in mysql.

What exactly do you want to do?

Do you want to keep the same borders, but they lead to different zones? Yeah, that's the easiest way to do it (Use Eqadmin)

You want to change Zone lines? That's a bit of a different horse..

Yes, I want to change which zone the original zone lines move you to. Howver, I'm using eqadmin (got rid of all the "zone points" and made a few new ones, now there are only 3 for now) but I still walk over the lines and teleport to the original zones. What am I doing wrong?