Unable to lock things down by expansion

[provocating]

It's not that easy, not just changing one setting. It all has to be done manually, all of it.

Zone lines
Objects (books, stones, LDoN camps)
Spells
NPC's
Character start locations
Out of era items
Augment slots on items

Also the spells of course changed many times. I had to go back and redo all spell statistics. You have to think the magician damage shield never lasted as long as it does. You also will have to remove classes from the spells, or they will show Beastlord and Berserker. I am sure I am missing a few things, we had months of post going back and forth when the players were giving me feedback.

Oh and the LoY starting gear and all associated items, those were removed. Then we went back and removed all of the NPC's regarding LoY newbie items. Overall it takes a ton of time on the Wayback Machine researching this stuff.

If you are going full classic you will need to get info about any revamped zones.

[Veltira]

Originally Posted by provocating

It's not that easy, not just changing one setting. It all has to be done manually, all of it.

Zone lines
Objects (books, stones, LDoN camps)
Spells
NPC's
Character start locations
Out of era items
Augment slots on items

Also the spells of course changed many times. I had to go back and redo all spell statistics. You have to think the magician damage shield never lasted as long as it does. You also will have to remove classes from the spells, or they will show Beastlord and Berserker. I am sure I am missing a few things, we had months of post going back and forth when the players were giving me feedback.

Oh and the LoY starting gear and all associated items, those were removed. Then we went back and removed all of the NPC's regarding LoY newbie items. Overall it takes a ton of time on the Wayback Machine researching this stuff.

If you are going full classic you will need to get info about any revamped zones.

Great response as always, thank you for your time. I guess Im just going to have to commit to getting a developer on my side. I know enought o get things going but you are talking about things I don't even know where to begin with.

[provocating]

It takes a really, really long time. Most of my Mantis tickets are on out of era bugs.

[provocating]

On that note you may want to think about some type of a ticket system, I use Mantis. It allows you to prioritize the tickets, ask for more information, add files and screenshots. When they submit a ticket they have to pick drop-downs so it forces someone to give more information than they may give on a forum post. There are others out there like Bugzilla.

[Veltira]

Originally Posted by provocating

On that note you may want to think about some type of a ticket system, I use Mantis. It allows you to prioritize the tickets, ask for more information, add files and screenshots. When they submit a ticket they have to pick drop-downs so it forces someone to give more information than they may give on a forum post. There are others out there like Bugzilla.

Great idea but my problem isnt getting to the issues in any particular order, i simply dont know how to hardcode some of these changes.

I just got rid of PoK books i believe. I mostly spend my time searching the forums and reading how others fixed problems. Learning is learning i suppose.