I'm baaaack...

[Malignus Wingnut]

Little update here.. I apologize for the abstractness of this, thoughts flowing out randomly.

I've been working diligently, guide is currently...18 pages in word..heh.

Still needing work is the Troubleshooting guide, which has not been added yet, but will be mostly finished tomorrow during school, laptop for the win.

>>>I really need a couple questions answered to perfect the guide before release.

>>>Mainly the ones in my last reply....

I've decided to not add the Perl Quest guide into this guide release, when I perfect it I'll add it and push it out to version 1.1

The guide will be public domain, you can edit it and take parts from it without my permission, as long as you give some mention to the time I spent creating the guide.

All of this is in the preface of the guide.

Expect a final release probably saturday.

What's going to be into it in sections:


Setup Guide
Supplementary Router Guide
Troubleshooting - Which will help solve the major problems that may be potentially generated during the setup guide.


I want feedback, what if anything else do you guys want to see in this guide?

[Woodlife Treestrider]

A couple things I had in mind would be:

Forceloading
Changing Level Cap
Editing Spells/Items
Turning PvP on/off
Turning expansions on/off
Creating/Editing factions
NPC spawning/editing

The stuff above would be nice but is in no means something I would expect you to release. That is a LOT of work and I doubt it would be worth it in the end. Nevertheless, would be a nice addition to your guide.

[Malignus Wingnut]

I agree, it would be a good guide, but I think that would best befit a different guide - mostly this guide is for the setting up and running of a perl enabled EQEmu server, and eventually a guide to the perl quest commands.

Once I finish and push this guide to final release, work out the bugs, perfect the perl guide, and I'll probably start work on a database editing guide - which most of what you asked falls into. Much of what you said, however, spawns, npcs, factions, etc.. are easily learnable by simply looking at the EQEmuAdminTool. While outdated, I still find it very valuable. Just studying it is how I taught myself npc creating and spawning, item creating, loot creating, etc.. though editing spells was something I never fully understood.

Thanks for the feedback though, and I'll consider it for later.

[Ghost Fire]

Malignus Wingnut. Your doing a GREAT JOB!!! Here is a bugs list that I collected from all over the place. You might want to give it a look see