EQ Solo Server DB Updates

[djeryv]

Originally Posted by sorvani

the identify spell provides the item lore information.

What does the lore provide to help one determine if they have the right Ancient Coin though? Do you have an example?

[sorvani]

Originally Posted by djeryv

What does the lore provide to help one determine if they have the right Ancient Coin though? Do you have an example?

All items can potentially have lore information. On live (without MQ2) the only way to know what piece of something you have is to put the item on your cursor and then have someone cast the identify spell. The item's lore informatino will then be put into the chat window.

Take the PoTactics alt access quest. You have to hunt for 4 Quarter of a Diaku Emblem. See this screenshot.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=21761

Then look at the items table in your database.

SELECT id,Name,lore FROM items WHERE id BETWEEN 29216 AND 29219;

id   , Name                     , lore
29216, Quarter of a Diaku Emblem, The top right quarter
29217, Quarter of a Diaku Emblem, The bottom right quarter
29218, Quarter of a Diaku Emblem, The top left quarter
29219, Quarter of a Diaku Emblem, The bottom left quarter

Obviously since these are lore you can just keep trying to loot until you have 4, but you get the idea.

The VP quest pieces are another example. and you do not want to get those all messed up and turn in the wrong ones at the wrong time.

[djeryv]

Alright...I think I have it straightened out enough for Brother Dremel to stay. Out of the hundreds and thousands of items, there were very few duplicate in name. I now just have Brother Dremel give all of the items with the exact name and then the player can sort it out after that. This means if they ask for a "Carved Sedgewood 1-Cam Bow", Brother Dremel will state that he has 4 of them and give all 4 different ones when he gets the item he wants. The download link in the original post at the top has the latest files for this change.