Managing Zones

[ChaosSlayer]

sorry to bumb this...
but can someone actualy explain to me HOW to make zone to be Static? =)

Thank you much =)

[Angelox]

Lets say you wanted to make the starting cities static- and akanon was the first one you were going to add;
first you need to make a new entry in table "launcher", you could call it "Cities" and the entry would look like

+---------+----------+
| name | dynamics |
+---------+----------+
| Cities | 0 |

next you need to go to "launcher_zones" and add aknon;

+----------+---------------+------+
| launcher | zone | port |
+----------+---------------+------+
| Cities | akanon | 1200 |

You can add all the zones you want and classify them under "Cities"

Finally, you make an entry in your start up script;

./eqlaunch Cities &

depending on how many cities you launch you should delay the script so they won't run into each other;

sleep 120

heres what mine looks like;
launcher_zones

+----------+---------------+------+
| launcher | zone | port |
+----------+---------------+------+
| Cities | akanon | 1200 |
| Cities | erudnext | 1201 |
| Cities | felwithea | 1202 |
| Cities | felwitheb | 1203 |
| Cities | freporte | 1204 |
| Cities | freportew | 1205 |
| Cities | freportn | 1206 |
| Cities | gfaydark | 1207 |
| Cities | halas | 1208 |
| Cities | kaladima | 1209 |
| Cities | kaladimb | 1210 |
| Cities | neriaka | 1211 |
| Cities | neriakb | 1212 |
| Cities | neriakc | 1213 |
| Cities | paineel | 1214 |
| Cities | qeynos | 1215 |
| Cities | qeynos2 | 1216 |
| Cities | rivervale | 1217 |
| Classic | crushbone | 1223 |
| Classic | kithicor | 1218 |
| Classic | lakerathe | 1219 |
| LoY | dulak | 1221 |
| LoY | gunthak | 1220 |
| LoY | nadox | 1222 |
| Cities | swampofnohope | 1223 |
| Cities | tutorialb | 1224 |
| Cities | poknowledge | 1225 |
+----------+---------------+------+

launcher;

+---------+----------+
| name | dynamics |
+---------+----------+
| Cities | 0 |
| Classic | 0 |
| DoD | 0 |
| GoD | 0 |
| Kunark | 0 |
| LoY | 0 |
| Luclin | 0 |
| OoW | 0 |
| PoP | 0 |
| Velious | 0 |
| zones | 5 |
+---------+----------+

I don't use a lot of the entries in launcher yet, but have them there incase I ever want to

[ChaosSlayer]

wow thats a lot of data...

Thank you Angelox I will sure put it into good use =)

[narcberry]

Thanks, this was very helpful to me as well.

[So_1337]

And me. I wanted to know, but was afraid to bump this =P Thanks for taking one for the team, Chaos!

[circuitdragon]

Just wondering here....but I have never edited anything besides my entires for the zones in the DB. Just one entry in "zones" for my dynamics, and my statics in the other. Works just fine with only editing those, question is, is that maybe not recommended? Just trying to see if I have unfinished editing to do.

[Angelox]

My opinion;
I used to like statics mainly because they had some concept of time, didn't like the idea of loading into a dynamic zone always at 8:00 am. This has been solved with the recent night and day scripts.

The main reason for statics is for heavy traffic servers (servers with many players), but if you just have a server for yourself or you and a few players, dynamic takes up less memory and CPU use.

Other than that the only other reason I can think of for a static is, the zone remains the same even when you die/leave and come back. Maybe you were camping a named NPC and finally got him to pop, but got yourself killed; when you came back, he'd still be there. Since most (if not all) servers have rare spawns/drops much more common than on live, this is not needed either.

Originally Posted by circuitdragon

Just wondering here....but I have never edited anything besides my entires for the zones in the DB. Just one entry in "zones" for my dynamics, and my statics in the other. Works just fine with only editing those, question is, is that maybe not recommended? Just trying to see if I have unfinished editing to do.