How are Mercs turned ON?

[sudosteve]

For what it's worth, I had issues getting my merc list to populate on the merc vendors. Turns out I just needed to update the Mercs:AllowMercs rule on all rule sets, not just rule set 10 (poknowledge is using pop+ rules, not eqemu_default apparently). I ran this query to update them all:

UPDATE `peq`.`rule_values` SET `rule_value`='true' WHERE `rule_name`='Mercs:AllowMercs';

Be sure to swap out "peq" with your database name first, if different. Hopefully this saves a few gray hairs somewhere.