akkadius scripts + static zones

[DanCanDo]

You can look at this old thread for an example:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30097

[NostalgiaEQ]

Originally Posted by DanCanDo

You can look at this old thread for an example:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30097

nice. What are those "ports" listed on launcher_zone table? Can I just use te same numbers he did?

[Akkadius]

The zones that get launched from my perl based launcher are purely dynamic.

You can achieve most of the 'static' behaviors by keeping zones dynamic and adjusting your 'shutdowndelay' in your zone table to be something that suits your needs.

The shutdowndelay is in milliseconds (1000) = 1 second.

To keep a zone up for, say an hour, you'd set the shutdowndelay to 3600000.

Once a zone has been booted, it will take a full hour to shutdown and go back into the dynamic pool. Only at this time will the zone flush corpses and things of that nature. Spawns and named are in the database so those timers are going to stay in tact regardless - BUT - if you have a low shutdowndelay and pure dynamics, plays can walk back and forth on zone lines to force a spawn cycle for a named that hasn't been killed or has an expired timer.

The perl based launcher is far more resilient and speedy, but does not support statics.

If you want to run statics you can run them in your batch on your own like so

zone.exe soldungb
zone.exe everfrost

Or you can do as mentioned in the thread before and set your launcher_zones table and map all of your statics and run eqlaunch.exe in parallel with the perl launcher.

To give you an idea, EZ Server runs pure dynamcis using the above methodology I explained earlier to be leaner on resources.

Hopefully that clears up some questions.

[khalathas]

Originally Posted by Akkadius

The zones that get launched from my perl based launcher are purely dynamic.

You can achieve most of the 'static' behaviors by keeping zones dynamic and adjusting your 'shutdowndelay' in your zone table to be something that suits your needs.

The shutdowndelay is in milliseconds (1000) = 1 second.

To keep a zone up for, say an hour, you'd set the shutdowndelay to 3600000.

Once a zone has been booted, it will take a full hour to shutdown and go back into the dynamic pool. Only at this time will the zone flush corpses and things of that nature. Spawns and named are in the database so those timers are going to stay in tact regardless - BUT - if you have a low shutdowndelay and pure dynamics, plays can walk back and forth on zone lines to force a spawn cycle for a named that hasn't been killed or has an expired timer.

The perl based launcher is far more resilient and speedy, but does not support statics.

If you want to run statics you can run them in your batch on your own like so

zone.exe soldungb
zone.exe everfrost

Or you can do as mentioned in the thread before and set your launcher_zones table and map all of your statics and run eqlaunch.exe in parallel with the perl launcher.

To give you an idea, EZ Server runs pure dynamcis using the above methodology I explained earlier to be leaner on resources.

Hopefully that clears up some questions.

Definitely clears up a lot. I'll just trim my batch file down to the start eqlaunch <launchername> segment, and run it in parallel then. Thank you Akkadius!

Edit: removing my own launcher called Dynamics from my segment of the batch file since your perl script has 30 dynamics already. Perfect! Works like a charm!

[NostalgiaEQ]

Would modifying your installed launcher to this work without any modifications to the database?

@echo off
cls
echo ***CLEARING OLD LOGS***
del "logs/zone/" /q
shared_memory.exe
start perl win_server_launcher.pl zones="30" zone_background_start loginserver kill_all_on_start
zone.exe soldungb
zone.exe everfrost
exit

[Akkadius]

Yes that would work

[NostalgiaEQ]

Originally Posted by Akkadius

Yes that would work

Awesome thank you. I tried killing a mob in soldungb zoned out and came back and the corpse was gone. Would static zone not necessarily prevent this?

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by NostalgiaEQ

Awesome thank you. I tried killing a mob in soldungb zoned out and came back and the corpse was gone. Would static zone not necessarily prevent this?

Was it set as static?

[khalathas]

Originally Posted by DanCanDo

You can look at this old thread for an example:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30097

This is almost exactly how I have mine, with the exception of naming and zones chosen, but yea...this is how it's done.

[NostalgiaEQ]

oops double post