City of Veksar update

[CrabClaw]

Nice work, thanks!

[BobThompson]

Thanks for all the effort you're putting into getting updates out. I just wish everyone who put the time and effort into adding things like this to their database would share it with the community.

[Angelox]

Thank you for your replies, and don't forget the real guys behind all this that made it possible. It's nice to know someone is interested. I wish i could do more, faster, but my health is not at it's best these days, and I can't sit for long sessions.
I was hoping other people that could, would also pitch in - it's not just a matter of transfering data from one DB to another - there's a lot more work needed, That's why I said it's better to do one zone at a time: dump what cavedude has, then add what else is needed. What you don't know about the zone, is usually all posted at allakhazam.
http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/zonelist.html
The last two zones i did (Droga and Veksar), were already populated via PEQ, just missing things (and still are, but look much better now)
I always use zonenames in id's whenever possible and always eight-digit numbers for loots, spawns starting with the zone number - so far it always works when others are updating ( I think).

[Zandig]

Nice!
Thanks much Angelox for making your complete database available. Its nice to have all of these fixes in one shot. I'm using it now after transferring my character info over to it and its going well.

Very kind of you to make this available.

One question: does your database contain the updates from the PEQ-Luclin RC1 database dated July 17th 2006?

- Zandig Slaytanic

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by Zandig

Nice!
Thanks much Angelox for making your complete database available. Its nice to have all of these fixes in one shot. I'm using it now after transferring my character info over to it and its going well.

Very kind of you to make this available.

One question: does your database contain the updates from the PEQ-Luclin RC1 database dated July 17th 2006?

- Zandig Slaytanic

Hi, I'm not sure what I have - I started with PEQ ,switched to Cavedudes, then recently switched to PEQ again.
The other day, I downloaded PEQ-Luclin RC1 and fed it to my SQL (as a separate database), so I could study it and see if anything was different from what I have. So far, I haven't found anything - I was thinking if I saw anything worthwhile, i would either pass it to my current database, or use the new one and patch all my work into it. But I haven't seen anything yet.
You know, you can also have all these database installed in your SQL, just give them another name. when I put in the PEQ-Luclin RC1 database, I just called it "peq2"- so now I have three ; EQ, PEQ and PEQ2. You only need change settings in your eqemu_config.xml in order to play with another database.
But like I said, so far, i haven't seen anything different , might be because I already had updated ( Im always surfing the CVS repositorys}.

[GeorgeS]

As a simple backup strategy, you can rename and copy folders within //mysql/data/
In this way, changes can be undone. I believe my backup tool works in a similar mode.

GeorgeS

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by GeorgeS

As a simple backup strategy, you can rename and copy folders within //mysql/data/
In this way, changes can be undone. I believe my backup tool works in a similar mode.

GeorgeS

Your backup/restore utility is very fast, I'll stick with that one -
Also some things I have found very useful that's made by you is; npc_loot_editor > Tools > Copy Existing NPC (really speeds up what I an doing, and gives me a base for further tweaking of the mob). npc_loot_editor > Tools > Find Item ( we know what that one does). I also still use your SQL Browser for making my updates, and your Grid Editor.