Note one: I don't update the database for the player profile to account for the changes to the suspend minion struct, so I assume unless someone can write one, there may be some weirdness if a player has a suspended pet while this patch is applied. I wasn't sure how to make that change to the player profile in the database, so I didn't want to mess something up.
Second Note: This does NOT work with zoning. A similar change would need to be made to extprofile to account for the petFocusPower to be saved along with the pet to be recalled after the zone, but that would be an easy code fix (just send the petFocusPower to the MakePet call) if the database change was made (again I didn't want to mess anythign up as I wasn't sure how to make the change, and this one would actually change the size of the blob in the database, instead of just shifting the structure around).
Third Note: I also have the code finished to allow for pets and npcs to equip a full inventory, instead of just the visible items. I ran into the same issue as the Second Note with the extprofile needing to be modified, so I wanted to go ahead and submit these changes, and add the equipment later. Pets will be summoned with equipment, with the quality increasing based on caster level and petPowerLEvel. The equipment include a high quality cloak with mod2s on it.
Note 4: Instead of just making the change to allow pet power to persist over zoning, I would go ahead and make the change to allow for the increased number inventory items to be saved with the pet.
Note 5: I will try and submit my code with equipment as soon as I can, and I know KLS wants to work on the npc inventory issue after spells, but this could be an intermediary step, or something for private servers to mess around with. IF I submit it, it will still suffer from the issues of saving the extra pet power and extra equipment (haste mask, cloak, etc) through zoning. It will be able to persist through suspend, though, so one workaround would be to suspend the pet before zoning (this is tested as working).
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