Quest Development

[mollymillions]

People have asked me in the past if there was a team working on EQ Live like quest development that they could join. I don

[Synch]

Molly, I'm unable to log in anonymously into your ftp server. I get a 530 error on every attempt.

This seems like a good idea. I'll start looking around and see what quest info I can get. It's been five or so years since I played live, so my knowledge is a bit out of date. x.x

[astonerii]

I cannot download that file. is it still active?

[mollymillions]

You will need to use an FTP client. I tested it using WS_FTP with user name anonymous@phatcontroller.org (any password) and could uplaod and download? I will test it from another location.

[astonerii]

WS FTP worked great, thanks
but it does require a password

THANKS

[Muuss]

user name anonymous@phatcontroller.org (any password)

anonymous ftp logins usually requires an email address as password, might try that perhaps )

[MacLeod]

Do these quests need to have the original text or can they be ad-libbed?

Also, does it matter if for a quest where you put 4 items in a box to combine to give to someone that you just hand in the 4 items instead, or how would I do something like this? Make it a recipe or...?

*EDIT* I guess basically.. do these need to be exact or just close enough to get the main point across? Like if I didn't put in faction hits/amount of experience given was not right, etc. I don't know good numbers for these things so I would probably make very small adjustments if any. *EDIT*

I'm going to try to put together some quests, and I don't want to contaminate the archive.

[mollymillions]

Good questions MacLeod. These quests are by the public for the public and whatever you can get together will be appreciated, I can only give my opinion but perhaps a public opinion will be reached through discussion?

My opinion:
The original Live texts and faction changes, etc, are gold (the details of the item hand ins/returns are easy to come by but the actual texts are not). You will find that some of these quests contain multiple responses for the same question. These responses are supposed to be given based on different conditions, but the conditions are not known. The text itself is still valuable for future reference so please don

[MacLeod]

By the way...

I noticed one NPC for a quest was located under the ground by 40 units, should I just upload a file, say UpdateUlrich.sql, to the server as well to fix his beginning location?

Also, since there isn't really a way to make a dog go to a person except by creating a path/depopping one dog/etc etc. I think I'm just going to leave this quest unfinished until maybe a goto command is added.

[mollymillions]

I would upload the sql and it will be included with the collection. With a bit of luck there is someone involved in the world building teams that is also interested in quest development that may merge the changes into the standard db releases, even if this does not happen anyone that is using the collection on their server will probably check out the mods and implement them once they are sure that they are worthwhile.
It would be cool to come up with a routine that reads the loot data from the EVENT_DEATH subs in the quest files and adds it as true loot entries in the DB. I could write this routine if any world builders are interested in incorporating the critical loot drops for quests into the standard DB?

[Cyril Gray]

I've tried downloading the file and I keep getting what turns out to be a corrupted ZIP file. It registers as 755,640 bytes in size, transfers 758,568 bytes, and displays as a bad zip file, no zip file or part of a spanned zip file when I get it back on my machine.

That aside, as my first post on this board, I must say that this project has rekindled my interest in EQ. Whether that is good or bad remains to be seen But I do like what has been done and the possibilities that remain.

Cheers.

[mollymillions]

I just downloaded the file (using WS_FTP) as a test and the file was OK? Is it possible the FTP client you are using is handling the file as an ASCII file rather than a binary file? I am not really an expert in these matters but someone else may be able to supply some insight into the problem.

[Cyril Gray]

Molly,

Thanks for the reply. I am not sure what was the issue, but using the ftp.exe for Win2000 caused problems and using CoffeeCup Free FTP on Win98SE worked fine : It might very well have been the issue you mentioned, but at this point i'm to happy about having been able to retrieve it to look into it further

I'm going to attempt a simple quest script to get more acquianted with the process. I'll be sure to try and upload anything I come up with. Thank you for providing access and a place to collaborate.

[dank]

i keep getting failed connection...can that zip file be posted or does phatcontroller have a website or something?

[dank]

solved my own problem on the next search result....