Couple things...
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Originally Posted by Rhodan
I'm digging through the database, already fixed the zone destination from nexus to the bazaar (it plopped me outside the geometry)
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I've found that the Titanium client has the new fancy zone layouts for many of the older pre-PoP zones. Like Nektulos Forest, for example. Sure, you can fix zone-in points to match these new graphics, but if you rename the
shortname.eqg to something else and zone in, you'll likely be spot on where you should be. Newer gfx are nice, but I've been toying with this for the whole "remember what it was like to be a virgin" rush.
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Making NPCs weaker would definitely work, but that means modifying a hell of a lot of database entries! I'll have to refresh my SQL knowledge... I know I can do something like a nested query where I can pull the value of something (say level) add 1 to it, then save that. I just have to remember how for one, and learn what to change, for two.
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If you know anything about ASP/VBScript/PHP/Perl, your task wouldn't seem so daunting. Sub-queries are cool, but MySQL seems to have fits so much, I gave up and started writing VBScripts where needed.
Sounds like you know what you want though, so you are ahead of many. I've been playing with my server for 4 mos, haven't coded a line because everytime I think I have an idea, I get too busy and can't get to it... stupid real life!!
I'm definitely going custom-server though... while Live-like is nice, I've already done that - and so have most. And I think there are plenty of those anyway.