New Server Issues

SoltanHeatwave · #1 11-23-2013, 03:32 PM

I just built my EQEmu server and am experiencing some perplexing issues. I am a complete newb at running this server. I am just glad that I got it up and can login to it.
I followed the guide located here and was able to get the server up and running and was able to login to my server. When I used CMake there were no reported errors and when compiled with VB 2012 express I didn't get any errors. I have found and attempted fixes that I found on the forums, but nothing yet seems to work. The problems I am experiencing are:
1. When I click anywhere on the client, while zoning I crash to desktop. As long as I don't click anywhere inside the client interface while zoning the zone will load.
2. I downloaded and used the peqbeta_2013-11-22-02_01.sql database. Primarily because I couldn't locate and download any other. The database, user files and bot sql files loaded without any errors. When I attempted to import the required sql files located in the source\utils\sql\git\required folder I get tables not found errors. So I redid my database without importing these files.
3. The gates of discord will not load. I keep getting that "the plane of discord is closed to me" from the priest in PoK, but when I guilded myself and went into the guild hall I got the walls of slaughter item for the transporter, and when I stepped into the transporter nothing happened. My client is a SoF retail version that I purchased years ago. That version does have the Gates expansion on it.
4. When in the guild hall, I cannot exit back into the GL, because the exit door is missing. The door is replaced by a sky graphic that cannot be clicked.
5. When I click on the freeport stone I get an option to zone into the old style Freeport, which I really like, but when I do the graphics are wrong, all the npc humans and mobs look like regular unarmored humans. The mobs aggro correctly in this zone. When I zone into the new Freeport the graphics are correct, but none of the mobs aggro at all. This is reversed in the new Ak-Anon zone. In the new zone the graphics are good, in the old zone they are wrong. In both instances how ever the new zones mobs will not aggro at all. I have tried reloading maps, even deleting the map folders and redoing them from scratch. In the new Ak-Anon zone the PoK pedestal is missing.
6. I do not get any kind of aggro from any mob at all in any expansion after the Omens of War expansion. This includes the new Commonlands and Steamfont zones. I can't check Omens since I cannot get to the zones.
7. I cannot get bots at all. When I compiled the server with CMake, I ensured that I checked the Bots box. I even redid the make and recompiled it in VB 12. I ensured that the Load_bots sql script was loaded. I don't get any response from the Bot merchants.
8. Quests don't work. When I hail a quest agent I get no response from them at all. I was able, after spending some time in the game zoning around and checking out mobs, I went back to PoK and started to get the "A mysterious stranger" tells from the wayfairers, so I went to the quest NPC standing next to the PoK binder and was able to get a quest. I zoned to a number of other zones and even though I was getting the wayfairers recruitment tells I wasn't able to get any of the quest NPC's to respond. In fact I am not getting a response from most NPC's when I hail the.
8. I attempted to use admin tool 5.9, but keep getting can not load database. I have checked the ini file and have tried different configurations for the locations of the path values, and ensured that the user name and password were correct.
9. The portal to Jagged Pine Forest is missing in the Glade.

Steps I have taken: I have totally deleted all folders and started from scratch, I have redownloaded the maps, deleted the maps directory and reloaded again. I have tried numerous solutions posted on the forums. So far nothing has worked.
I don't know anything at all about the sql database, but when I loaded it, I didn't get any errors.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give to me.

SoltanHeatwave · #2 11-24-2013, 06:40 PM

Thanks to HnathBST I got the Priest of Discord working, and the mobs there do aggro. Still can't get the guild portal to send me to Walls of Slaughter.
Guild Hall Door, inside the Guild Hall is still broken. The quests are intermittent I have to zone out and rezone back in to get some quest mobs to respond to me, including the Priest of Discord.

SoltanHeatwave · #3 11-24-2013, 07:48 PM

I just also noticed that when my character falls he doesn't take damage from falling he gets a message "You have taken 8 points of type 252 environmental damage"

**Kingly_Krab** · #4 11-24-2013, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by SoltanHeatwave

I just also noticed that when my character falls he doesn't take damage from falling he gets a message "You have taken 8 points of type 252 environmental damage"

If you have your Gamemaster flag on, you will take no fall damage, turn it off with '#gm off'.

SoltanHeatwave · #5 11-24-2013, 08:42 PM

Ok, that worked. Thank you. I have to get used to not being a PC on my server. I am going to keep it on and the server locked until I get the issues I am having with it resolved. It might be the way I am doing my searches, but I am showing no results whenever I search for the issues that I am having. Maybe I don't know even enough about what is going on with the server to ask good questions about. Are there any guides for running the server, and maybe resolving these kinds of issues. I have been downloading the new database files, but I am not sure whether I should source them in or redo the database from scratch. I also don't know how to resolve the issues I am having. A lot of the posts are rather old and when I try some of them, they don't work, or there are files that they reference, but either don't exist anymore or I didn't get with my downloads. Thanks for your help.

sorvani · #6 11-25-2013, 12:14 PM

Having the GM flag on has nothing to do with having the status to login when the server is locked. those are different things.

Yes, you have no clue what you are doing, but at least you asked.

# commands are tied to the account status and have nothing to do with being flagged as a GM in the client. Aside from the fact that someone with high enough status has to use the #gm on command on a character in the first place. You do not have to be flagged as a GM to use all the # commands your status gives you access to.

Just being a GM does not grant anything other than the green name really. Mobs will not aggro by default and no falling damage is about it. This is not live.

SoltanHeatwave · #7 11-25-2013, 09:35 PM

I lowered my account to status 0 and unlocked the world. I went back into my server and I am still having the same aggro issues in the same zones. So I don't think that being a GM, at least on this server has anything to do with obtaining aggro. I have tried redownloading the maps several times already and copying them into the maps folder. I even deleted the maps folder a couple of times and reinstalled them fresh, with each version of the maps I downloaded. Nothing at this time seems to resolve the issue. Thanks for your help though.

**joligario** · #8 11-25-2013, 10:12 PM

Are you putting them like "/eqemu/Maps/{zone}.map" or in "/eqemu/Maps/Maps/{zone}.map"?

lerxst2112 · #9 11-25-2013, 10:13 PM

You don't need to change the status of your account, you need to type "#gm off".

SoltanHeatwave · #10 11-25-2013, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by joligario

Are you putting them like "/eqemu/Maps/{zone}.map" or in "/eqemu/Maps/Maps/{zone}.map"?

I am putting them in the Maps folder. I don't have a maps sub folder in the maps folder. The full address is C:\EQ\EQEmuServer\Maps.

SoltanHeatwave · #11 11-25-2013, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by lerxst2112

You don't need to change the status of your account, you need to type "#gm off".

Ok, thank you for the information. I really am learning from this. I hope to one day be able to actually be of some help to another newbie like me.

SoltanHeatwave · #12 11-30-2013, 02:50 PM

I really want to get my server up and operational. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help.

**joligario** · #13 11-30-2013, 06:16 PM

What are your current issues? Delete your old log files and start your server again. Stop the server when you encounter errors and post the new log files.

sorvani · #14 12-01-2013, 01:15 AM

His current issue is that he does not understand the difference between status and the GM flag, even thigh it was explained already.
Also he calls the OoW zones GoD.
As the OoW zones a re basically untested by any experienced did yet, who know what condition they are in..

SoltanHeatwave · #15 12-01-2013, 01:45 PM

I do know the difference between having the GM flag enabled and disabled. I only enabled the GM flag once, and after reading the boards took it off and have never enabled the GM flag since then. I am going through my error logs now. I'll post them later. Yes I did made one mistake in referring to the OoW zones, frustration can sometimes be very annoying, but that doesn't explain why I can't use the guild teleporter to get to Wall of Slaughter when I can use it to get to other zones. That is zones prior to Planes of Power. None of the zones after Planes of can be accessed by the Teleporter nor do any of the mobs agro there, irregardless if I am GM flagged or not. I even created a new account that has 0 for it's capabilities and none of the mobs there agro. There are no subdirectories in my Maps folder, I downloaded the newest maps I could find and so far nothing works. I may be very inexperienced as far as the EQEmu server is concerned, but I do know my way around a computer. I am sorry that I am not an expert Perl or SQL programmer, but that is why I am asking for some help.