Quest Globals

[trevius]

Most likely you are using the old way to access qglobals. You should be checking them by doing something like $qglobals{myglobalname} instead of just $myglobalname. Using the new way should work 100% of the time.

[KingMort]

Here is the Quest

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
# Level => (Cost, Buff set)
# Hash is iterated over, and as soon as player level is >= to hash level,
# cost is applied
my %pbuffs =
(
	65 => { cost => 1000, set => 'high' },
	55 => { cost => 500,  set => 'general' },
	45 => { cost => 450,  set => 'general' },
	30 => { cost => 300,  set => 'general' },
	20 => { cost => 150,  set => 'general' },
	0  => { cost => 0,    set => 'general' }
);

# Buff sets. Referenced by pbuffs
my %buffset =
(
	general => [2112, 2517, 8199, 1939, 2517],
	high    => [2112, 2517, 278,  13,   5257, 5396, 1939]
);

# Returns pbuff value for level
# Args: level
sub getpb
{
	my $level = shift;

	foreach $key (reverse sort keys %pbuffs)
	{
		if ($level >= $key)
		{
			return $pbuffs{$key};
		}
	}
}

# Returns buff cost for level
# Args: level
sub getbuffcost
{
	return getpb(shift)->{'cost'};
}

# Casts buffs given a name
# Args: array of spells
sub castspells
{
	foreach $spell (@_)
	{
		quest::selfcast($spell);
	}
}

# Returns buff set for level
sub getbuffset
{
	return @{$buffset{getpb(shift)->{'set'}}};
}

sub EVENT_SPAWN
{
quest::settimer(1,1);
}

sub EVENT_SAY 
{
	my $saylink1 = quest::saylink("buffs");
	my $saylink2 = quest::saylink("pay");
	my $cost = getbuffcost($ulevel);
	my @buffs = getbuffset($ulevel);
	my $credit = $qglobals{buffcredit} ? $qglobals{buffcredit} : 0;
if (defined $qglobals{hkchinese})
{
	if ($text =~ /hail/i)
	{
		quest::say("Ru guo nin xu yao yi xie buff [$saylink1], gao shu wo, dang ran, nin ke
neng xu yao fu dian dai jia [$saylink2].");
		$npc->SetAppearance(0);
		quest::settimer(1,10);
	}
	elsif ($text =~ /buffs/i)
	{
		if ($credit < $cost)
		{
			quest::say("Xiao gui, ni xiang pian guo wo ma? mei na me rong yi! ni xu yao zhi shao"
				. ($cost - $credit) . " PP.");
		}
		else
		{
			castspells(@buffs);
 
			# Only record and say this stuff if there was a cost
			if ($cost > 0)
			{
				$credit -= $cost;
				quest::setglobal('buffcredit', "$credit", 5, 'F');
				quest::say("Xie xie nin, $name! zai wo zhe li, nin hai sheng xia $credit PP ke yi 
buff.");
			}
		}
	}
	elsif ($text =~ /pay/i)
	{
		if ($cost > 0)
		{
			quest::say("Rang wo kan kan, $race.. nin zui shao xu yao $cost PP, bu neng zai 
jiang jia le.");
			quest::say("Nin hai you $credit PP zai wo zhe li, ru guo nin da suan zai cun yi
xie,"
				. " zhi jie ba PP gei wo jiu ke yi le");
		}
		else
		{
			quest::say("Nin kan shang qu xiang ge nian qing ren, $name. mian fei!");
		}
	}
}
else
{
 
	if ($text =~ /hail/i)
	{
		quest::say("If you want some [$saylink1] just let me know.  Of course you may have to [$saylink2].");
		$npc->SetAppearance(0);
		quest::settimer(1,10);
	}
	elsif ($text =~ /buffs/i)
	{
		if ($credit < $cost)
		{
			quest::say("Phuh!  Are you trying to cheat me?  You need "
				. ($cost - $credit) . " more plat!");
		}
		else
		{
			castspells(@buffs);
 
			# Only record and say this stuff if there was a cost
			if ($cost > 0)
			{
				$credit -= $cost;
				quest::setglobal('buffcredit', "$credit", 5, 'F');
				quest::say("Thanks $name!  You have $credit left in credit.");
			}
		}
	}
	elsif ($text =~ /pay/i)
	{
		if ($cost > 0)
		{
			quest::say("Let's see, $race.. For you? A lowly $cost plat!");
			quest::say("You have $credit plat in credit.  If you want more credit,"
				. " just hand me some plat!");
		}
		else
		{
			quest::say("You look like a nice young $race, $name.  No charge for you!");
		}
	}
}
}
sub EVENT_ITEM
{
	my $credit = $qglobals{buffcredit} ? $qglobals{buffcredit} : 0;
 if (defined $qglobals{hkchinese})
{
	if ($platinum > 0)
	{
		$credit += $platinum;
		quest::setglobal('buffcredit', "$credit", 5, 'F');
		quest::say("Xie xie $name! nin xian zai you $credit PP zai wo zhe li!");
	}
	else 
		{
		plugin::return_items(\%itemcount);
    		}
 }
else
{
	if ($platinum > 0)
	{
		$credit += $platinum;
		quest::setglobal('buffcredit', "$credit", 5, 'F');
		quest::say("Thank You $name! You now have $credit PP credit");
	}
	else 
		{
		plugin::return_items(\%itemcount);
    		}
}
}

[trevius]

Hmm, from what I can tell, that looks ok to me. The only thing that stands out is that you use single quotes instead of double quotes for setting the name of your qglobals. I dunno what affect that might have, but I always use double quotes around the name of the qglobal.