ProjectEQ CVS

[number6]

Hi Cavedude,

Any chance of a brief summary of which zones are "complete" and which ones are "more of less there, some more work required"? I'm very interested to hear how far things have got with PoP zones in particular. Right now my server is running with Angelo's DB, which has some but not all PoP zones populated (Disease, Innovation, Knowledge, Tranquility, Nightmare, Storms, Bastion of Thunder). I think there is interest from my handful of players in places like Valour, Halls of Honour, Crypt of Decay....

It'd be a fair amount of work to switch over and at this stage I'm not sure whether it's wise to do it, so I guess I'm looking for a bit more info on how things are with your CVS version.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Paul.

[cavedude]

None of the zones will ever be "complete", but the ones closest to are everything up to Luclin, PoK is nearly there, and most of LoY (thanks to Angelox) The vast majority of the other zones supported by Titanium are popped, but haven't been touched otherwise. In fact, the only zone not popped off the top of my head is nightmareb.

We have squashed many of the bugs that existed even in old world. We added a ton of quests, and we've tweaked/added many many raid encounters. The largest guild on the PEQ server are all getting keyed for VT as I type this. Much of my database has been merged into PEQ, and there also is a bit of Angelox's work on top of that.

[number6]

Exactly what I wanted to know - thanks

I'll have a play and see how things look.

Cheers, Paul.

[WildcardX]

I also would like to add that Cavedude has done the community a great service by making our PEQ world database available for download with frequent updates from the PEQ server. This is exactly what a lot of people have asked for.

With that said, we are hoping now that our database is going to be available via CVS we will finally get other people, such as yourself, to send us changes/fixes/additions via a SQL script and post them on this thread:

http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=38

We made this thread some time ago after many people were complaining they felt they were being left out of the contribution process. The PEQ team that maintains the database and quests is a rather small team of committed people, but people who have other things in life to do as well. The real power of providing the database with frequent updates is to allow other people who have the means to contribute, to contribute back.

So please, we encourage and ask for other people to make us of the CVS downloads and the SQL submission thread and help us help you

[number6]

I have been wondering about submissions but the stuff I have customised on my server (not a great deal to be honest) is aimed at making it easier for our server population - 8 people max with about 4 regulars - to level up and have fun, and is definitely not really "classic" eq. The changes I made include:

* A "random drop" system which allocates point values to all loot according to an algorithm then adds random drops to mobs within relevant level ranges. This was inspired by George's "Diablo style loot" idea. It's run from a php script top modify loot tables and I run it every week so that the random drops rotate.

* A "credit note" system. Mobs have a small chance of dropping a credit note which may then be turned in either for a) an item (like the casino in SH) or b) LDoN points which may then be spent to acquire rare spells or tomes

* A special newbie quest set up in an unused zone (chambersf actually), the reward of which is a gate hammer just like the old EQ overthere hammer but goes to PoK instead

* A custom vendor in PoK selling useful potions (distillates) and other bits and pieces to help new people

So as you can see I haven't been fixing "classic" content per se. Having said that I should probably write up the quests and SQL for this stuff and see if people like it - it just wouldn't be part of "vanilla" EQ, would it?

Paul.

[WildcardX]

The only submissions PEQ is interested in are for things that make the world database more consistent with Live.

[Dargon]

Not looking for support. Just wondering if you are using any of the new map files with the database? e.g. lavastorm, nektulos... So that zone points work correctly. I think you mentioned using them on the project eq website.