newbie questions

[Theeper]

You will need two seperate IP's to dual box using minilogin if you don't want to share characters and be logged off when zoning etc.

As far as using Magoth's Bots, I don't think there was ever an official release of that code. People just seem to merge it in manually. You could get the latest server release and diff it in. I can't think of any reason you'd lose existing characters.

Getting the latest DB and not losing your custom changes will be fairly difficult depending on how different they are. If it's just a few changes you made to items or drop rates or something simple, you can export your changes as SQL, and later run those queries on your new DB. Of course, the schema has changed over the years, so you'll need to keep that in mind.

Factions have never been 100% AFAIK. That's a DB issue and seems to get better as time passes and people do more work on them. I see wierd faction issues in various zones.

LDON is not working because there are several unknown opcodes and a lot of missing server code. I don't believe zone instancing works either.

If you create new quests, post them here in the quest section and surely people will want to see them and possibly use them. Writing up Live quests is always needed and custom work is certainly appreciated as well.

[skimpy]

Has anyone been able to get this to work...and if so, can you briefly describe the setup?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Theeper

You will need two seperate IP's to dual box using minilogin if you don't want to share characters and be logged off when zoning etc.

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[skimpy]

got it working...

[quadroplex]

get the phpscript posted on these forums and use that to update your ip of the account your zoning prior to zoning and you can two box there have been other solutions including launchers that worked as a client server app to do the ip updates as well but I Dont know if they are still active for download or not I have a solution I used that was similar to the client server app to handle authentication and ip updating as a standalone addon to my minilogin setup but i stoped working on it cause I dont have the time to keep the project up to date and work on my Custom zones and so forth for my server...

Long story short as long as you get that script here on the minilogin forum and use it before zoning the character two boxing is rather easy with minilogin, you dont need multiple computers to do it you just have to add a step or two to your zoning process

[quadroplex]

If you look in custom code development forum there is a post for the bot releases, condgar keeps ontop of the latest releases rather quickly and generally releases a new bot version within a few days of an official release, you dont need to diff it in yourself all the time, just wait for the releases from condgar.

Zone instancing does not work, and as such neither does ldon

you have a seperate account for the public loginserver if you have posting rights you have rights to make loginserver accounts click usercp at the top left at the bottom on the left of the page that loads click "Loginserver" and that is how you make your public login account for the public servers.

k now that all thats been explained id like to take a moment to remind people that most of their questions can be answered if they read the wiki and search the forums before they post

[skimpy]

Thanks for the reply (btw, I think post #6 you posted was meant for a different thread). I took a look at the php script and I might play with it to see how it acts....but I was originally looking for something that did not require any intervention. I'm assuming with this script, if you forget to activate it or ,are dualboxing/autofollowing/running to zone you will get bounced if you zone both chars at the same time....i was looking to try to avoid the headache of regrouping with my family's other characters while we are adventuring.

So, in my tinkering, I came up with a way in my environment to use 2 different IPs on my pc (which connects to my eqemu server in a vwmare box on the same pc) to connect to minilogin/world. This way, I'm able to dual box with two different accounts using minilogin and not have to worry about zoning issues.