Question about collecting

provocating · #1 12-20-2010, 02:05 PM

Well my log for westfreeport was 10 times large than the one here ...

http://www.peqtgc.com/logs/

Do you want to look at it before I post it somewhere ?

provocating · #2 12-20-2010, 02:17 PM

Well I uploaded it, guess I should had put my name on the filename but I did not.

http://www.peqtgc.com/logs/file.php?...eeportwest.zip

If someone could check it to make sure I did it right. I spent about 3-4 hours in freeportwest trying to make sure I opened every vendor and combed every inch of the zone, using the automap in EQ to make sure I touched all areas. If this is a way i can contribute then this is something I can and do not mind doing.

**Derision** · #3 12-20-2010, 03:38 PM

I just sourced in that log and can verify it is a good collect. You have a few more spawns than the previous collect (I think there are some Christmas mobs up at the moment), about 50 more merchants, and several more ground spawns (possibly seasonal, maybe added since the original collect, etc.), plus loads more pathing data.

So, good job

It's really up to you if you want to spend time collecting. I'm, sure the collect will come in useful, either to PEQ when they reach that expansion in the progression, or to other server ops who want to populate those zones sooner and not wait for PEQ.

provocating · #4 12-20-2010, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Derision

It's really up to you if you want to spend time collecting.

I want to do anything to be useful instead of being a leech and using the product without chipping in, so yes I am going to continue this. My only issue is my guy hit level 65 and I never leveled him further. So I will collect every zone I can collect. I am going to start with Freeport and the adjacent zones, then spider out from there.

I just really wanted to know if I did it right, the last thing I want to do is spend hours and not get a good extraction. I am saving the pcap files to my server in case we need them in the future. Doing East Freeport as we speak.

provocating · #5 12-20-2010, 06:38 PM

Oh noooes. I was about 30 minutes done from a killer feed from East Freeport, wireshark crashed.

provocating · #6 12-20-2010, 10:29 PM

Okay East Freeport done, another large one, around 10mb.

Derision you seemed to have no issues getting the SQL into your Database. How did you know exactly what rows to delete so easily ?

provocating · #7 12-20-2010, 11:01 PM

I just checked before I imported the new West Freeport in. The original West Freeport had 378 spawn points, this new one has 433 spawn points. I just zoned into West Freeport and I repopped the zone, damn I am impressed. I actually got the group of guards pathing correctly. It is worth the effort just to see them pathing like they should. Whoever wrote the extractor, give them a raise.

My database went up 10mb in size too. I will do adjacent zones tomorrow.

UPDATE

I just checked my East Freeport collect after sourcing it in. I have a bunch of Tyker Renlin's and Plnorrick Spinecracker's apawning at the docks and pathing. Not sure what happened there. Also the boats are patching into the rocks, which that could be explained by me not knowing that I was collecting information about the boats, I can sit around the water next time. Any help on this would be welcome, not sure what I did wrong. Could this be caused by me passing by the same area twice or something ? I do not know enough about what goes on in the background to make an assumption on what I did wrong on the packet collect. I definitely took my time and tried to be thorough. West Freeport looks great so far, other than there are multiple spawns of like the Holiday spawns.