Populating newer zones..?

bobbydole · #1 10-09-2006, 02:53 AM

Hello...

I just my server up and running and my friends and I played a bit over the weekend, we had some problems, but over all it was pretty fun. However, right now I've only got PEQ database installed, and I would like to get more zones.. pop, gates, LoDN, LoY, stuff like that. So are there any DB's released that have some of these zones populated, or how do I go about getting the data for these zones so I can populate them myself? I would like to stick as close to EQ as possible..

Thanks for the help.

bobbydole

#2 10-09-2006, 03:45 AM

PeQ is the only DB out that sticks close to live, if your interested in helping them further the DB check out there web site / forums.

John Adams · #3 10-09-2006, 05:08 AM

In the short-term, you can d/l 2 other databases with more info in them. Cavedudes, and Angelox. The former having many mobs populated but not highly tuned, and the latter being an extended effort of Angelox who has done tons of work to get PEQ + LoY + some PoP+ zones populated. Both can be found through links here.

There are also some community DBs posted around in this forum - work others have done, and posted links to their entire DB. Lots of custom stuff in those, though. Your best bet is PEQ for stability. Angelox for stability + some additional content. And, a tool written by a guy Zephyr to pull stuff from one (Cavedude) database and put into another (any).

Hope this helps.

bobbydole · #4 10-09-2006, 05:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Adams

There are also some community DBs posted around in this forum - work others have done, and posted links to their entire DB. Lots of custom stuff in those, though. Your best bet is PEQ for stability. Angelox for stability + some additional content. And, a tool written by a guy Zephyr to pull stuff from one (Cavedude) database and put into another (any).

Hope this helps.

Thanks it does help! I was thinking of switching to Angelox's DB because it sounds like it's got some good content, and i've spent a long time in LoY. However what I would really like to do is add some content that isn't already in the DB, but really I don't know how to start. Could I log into EQLive now and start collecting packet logs, or are the tools outdated? And once I got the packet logs, how do I get them into my DB? The wiki says that the collector doesn't work with Live, but there are logs at www.projecteq.net/logs can I use those and add them to my DB?

John Adams · #5 10-09-2006, 07:58 AM

I know nothing about the packet collectors, since I've been here they have been outdated and unusable. I would hit them up over at PEQ and see what they think. The perl script that Zephyr wrote does a great (clean) job of identifying diffs in databases. takes only a moment to setup, and even if you don't use the data, it gives you an idea how everything is hooked together.

**GeorgeS** · #6 10-09-2006, 01:48 PM

I think Angelox spawned LOY zones from memory (if memory serves me right). so you can do the same. The tools for this are out there.

GeorgeS