Automatic zone.exe loader?

[circuitdragon]

I guess I can see that. Next thing on my mind will be something to organize all the zone windows. Wonder if its possible to write a little something with VB to place them all nice and neat in one window....different topic though. I'll just go with the flow on the zones. Chances are, I won't see any heavy loads of players on my server. Thanks though, I was just curious if anyone had a setup for something like this idea.

[Theeper]

If you use the launcher, you should only have 2 windows open, no matter how many zones you boot. 3 if you're using Minilogin.

[circuitdragon]

2 windows? That may work for 1 or 2 people. 1 zone to be current, 1 to be "waiting" to transfer to. Bad ratio maybe, but for a figure of 5 people I would say 7-10 zones needed. Only reason I do this is to never see the "Zone unavailable" messages. Why worry, when all thats needed is more zones loaded? I'll not say this is the correct thing to do, just how I do things. My server is public, so its not just me that can get on it.

[Sakrateri]

No no no, what he is saying is if you use the launcher that you can have as many zones as you want to be ready but would only see one window for all of them , just go into launcher in your database and type in how many you want running and hit launcher and thats how many will be available.....Se?

[Theeper]

My point is you don't have to have one window open for each zone you boot, no matter how many people are playing. If you use the launcher, it will not open a command window for each zone. It only opens one. There is no need to have a seperate window for each zone.

[circuitdragon]

Ahhh, I'll try that out. I'm still "old school" I guess, using a batch file. Thanks guys.

[ven-elexver]

can someone tell me how you do this ? i got to my DB and to launcher or launcher_zone ? also both have a lot of stuff almost looks the same at what line do you add the number of zones ? at this point i use start.bat with start zone.exe the eq launcher gives me zone not found type of massage im sure it becouse i dont know how to tell it how many to load heres my launcher file in DB

-- MySQL dump 10.11
--
-- Host: localhost Database: PEQ_CVS
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version 5.0.38-Ubuntu_0ubuntu1.1-log

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/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
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/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

--
-- Table structure for table `launcher`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `launcher`;
CREATE TABLE `launcher` (
`name` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
`dynamics` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`name`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

--
-- Dumping data for table `launcher`
--

LOCK TABLES `launcher` WRITE;
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `launcher` DISABLE KEYS */;
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `launcher` ENABLE KEYS */;
UNLOCK TABLES;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE=@OLD_TIME_ZONE */;

/*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */;
/*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;
/*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;

-- Dump completed on 2007-11-14 15:32:00


and the launcher _zone also in DB

MySQL dump 10.11
--
-- Host: localhost Database: PEQ_CVS
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version 5.0.38-Ubuntu_0ubuntu1.1-log

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

--
-- Table structure for table `launcher_zones`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `launcher_zones`;
CREATE TABLE `launcher_zones` (
`launcher` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
`zone` varchar(16) NOT NULL default '',
`port` mediumint(9) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`launcher`,`zone`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

--
-- Dumping data for table `launcher_zones`
--

LOCK TABLES `launcher_zones` WRITE;
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `launcher_zones` DISABLE KEYS */;
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `launcher_zones` ENABLE KEYS */;
UNLOCK TABLES;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE=@OLD_TIME_ZONE */;

/*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */;
/*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;
/*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;

-- Dump completed on 2007-11-14 15:32:00

im thinking this is just logs and not what your talking about

[jimbabwe]

all you have to do is edit the launcher table. Add an entry. we'll name it peq and set it's dynamics to 6.

Then boot world. Then run from batch, from shortcut or from command prompt launcher.exe peq.

Tada!

launcher_zones is for if you want to add static zones I believe.