Looking for info on fixing factions

[sesmar]

I guess the big question on this is do you want people to be able to gain faction with the "Undead of Unrest"? If you want to make it so that people can gain or lose faction with them then creating their own seperate faction would be a good idea. If you dont plan on having that as an option then I dont see why you could not just set them all to a standard generic KOS faction. It would be a lot easier across the board if you do not plan on letting people gain faction with them.

[Kirgothi]

Well I would really like to have it set up like it is on live. I don't remember people being able to gain faction with the undead on live, so I will probably just use this KOS faction. I could have sworn there was a faction for "the undead" on live, but I haven't played in years so who knows.

From what they say on PEQ's website I was under the impression that their database was very close to live up through Velious. But I am finding out that is not the case. Many of the spawns in the zones we have played in are not the same. Nektulos was a disaster area that required multiple fixes. Spell research is not implemented ( I guess this is a client issue? ) Now I am finding that the factions are not all in either.

Don't get me wrong, I am not bashing or flaming them at all, I don't mind tinkering with the database myself. At the very least it lets me put the stuff I learned in my classes to good use.

I am considering my server a "work in progress." We play and as we encounter problems, I will fix them. But finding information is proving extremely difficult.

From what I have been able to gather, the information about where mobs spawn and what loot they carry is gathered from logs players create while playing EQ live? And then teams like PEQ populate the database with this information? Is there a place one can find all of this information?

[sesmar]

You might also want to consider submiting your fixes to PEQ. If you find things that you know are not right and can fix it let them know. PEQ's goal is to create an extremely live like Database and I am sure they would be happy for any help they can get in achiving this.

[Kirgothi]

Actually I have never received a response from those folks in any form. I have tried to get in touch with them on the forums, IRC, and email. It's like a ghost town. I have heard from others that they are not so open to people "fixing" things in their database.

I wouldn't mind it though. At the very least it would be nice to have access to the information that would allow me to add the missing pieces to my own database. I have had good luck with you and Cavedude though.