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Old 05-28-2004, 04:35 PM
Swampdog
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Originally Posted by animepimp
The only problem I see with your quest is that some of the quest::says are way too long. Each one should be only one sentence, possibly two at most. They can cause problems if they are too long. Just break each one up into multiple quest::says and it will be a lot better.
I don't necessarilly agree that they need to be one or two sentences, but agree it needs to be chunked out. You need to keep in mind there is a buffer for says. This seems to hold true with what NPCs say as well. Maybe one of the eqemu devs can comment on how long it can be. I've found that I can have around 5 or 6 lines of text in a single quest::say without the server bombing out with a buffer error. Probably best to keep it at 4 lines (by lines I'm talking about notepad open fullscreen on a 1024x768 monitor with wordwrap on..) Again, I wouldn't hold this as gospel, but my personal feeling is breaking it down by sentence takes away from the output... And again, that is only my personal preference.

I think you did good for your first quest.. Quickly skimming it, the large say was the only thing I noticed potentially wrong with it.
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