How to get Mercs working with Windows Installer.

[Allairus]

I downloaded the Windows installer and it worked well. I've been following EQEmu for years and never actually tried to get a server going. This installer made it very simple. Anyway I was able to research or figure out on my own how to get things working like I wanted, but everything I have found on getting Mercs to work has not done the trick for me. I changed the setting to enable Mercs but when I go to a Liaison and right click all it does is Con them.

How would I enable mercs with the Windows installer version?

Thanks for any help. This seems to be the last piece to get things the way I want it.

[chrsschb]

Change the liaison's class to 71 and repop.

Assuming you ran the rest of the sql needed that should get them spawning. However, mercs still have a lot of issues.

[DanCanDo]

I found this sql query on another post that makes it easy.

UPDATE `peq`.`npc_types` SET `class`='71' WHERE `lastname` LIKE '%Mercenary Liaison';

(change name of db "peq" to what yours is.)

[Allairus]

Thanks so much for the help. I have them working. They seem a little over powered. I had one solo a yellow con and barely get hit. Maybe that is adjustable in server settings. I will look around for it.

Thanks again for the help.