Scripts for Events
 

say I wanted to run an event on my server, where for example in Rathe mountains when you said something to an npc, or just whenever I felt like spawning the "event" it would spawn a number of enemies that would stay up for a limited time. If people managed to kill them all, a boss mob spawned with loot etc.

is there anysuch way to write these sort of "scripts" for an eqemu server ?

or is the best way to sit there and spawn the npc's and watch, then when they are dead spawn the boss mob for them to kill ?

What you're trying to do is a quest. Its implemented in the EMU ATM and totally doable. See Quests forum, its full of examples and there's a nice tutorial that explains how to write them. What you want to do is not the easiest option to start with, but it is doable, with timers and such things... i hope that you will like perl :)

Thanks for the reply, I thought it might of been a quest as such, but I guess I went back on my EQ Live knowledge of quests and thought that they didnt really coer what I was after.

Cheers !