Soul Binders

[Bakersman]

just a quick question here, is the soul binders working at all or are they totally broken? hail does not seem to work on the mobs as i get no dialog.

[Theeper]

Soulbinders work fine provided PERL works on your machine and the quests are in place.

[Docs]

Quests dont appear to work at all. Correct?

[rojadruid]

Originally Posted by Docs

Quests dont appear to work at all. Correct?

They are working fine on my server using the latest code and database.

[Bakersman]

sorry for late response, i have the perl all loaded and i installed the things i was supposed to, but what i am finding is that if i go hail someone i do not get a response, i have put the quests in the quest folder as the pdf said to, is there settings in mysql that need to be updated? i look into the quest sections in the query browser and i do not see any in the global_quests, so it appears to me they are not install, i did the mysql from the command prompt to source load_system.sql and the player.sql, i am not sure if this has to be done for the quests, i know they are pearl based quests but i am uncertain if there is a command i have to put into mysql for them to run the quests correctly. another question ... do i need to keep the perl package manager open?

[Theeper]

Make sure your quests are one directory deep from the directory world runs in.

I.E. If your server lives in C:\eqemulator\, the quest sub folders should be in C:\eqemulator\Quests. It seems like people sometimes extract the files into a directory like this .. C:\eqemulator\Quests\Quests\.

Close the PPM if you're done installing/upgrading or whatever.

[Theeper]

Originally Posted by Bakersman

i look into the quest sections in the query browser and i do not see any in the global_quests, so it appears to me they are not install

Quests are not installed and don't go into the database. They are just files that sit in a directory and are parsed at run time.

Quests can read/write key-value pairs to the quest_globals table on a per character basis and use them for things like flags and storing steps in a multistage quest or something.

[Bakersman]

ok so i checked my eqemu_config as everything was installed and in the right places

as this was the default directories i am thinking it was not pathed right, i have to test it later tonight

<directories>
<!-- <maps>Maps</maps> -->
<!-- <quests>quests</quests> -->
<!-- <plugins>plugins</plugins> -->
</directories>


so i changed it to this

<directories>
<!-- <maps>C:\EQEMU\Maps</maps> -->
<!-- <quests>C:\EQEMU\quests</quests> -->
<!-- <plugins>C:\EQEMU\plugins</plugins> -->
</directories>

i hope this does the trick, i am not getting any quest errors they just didn't work, thanks for the info.

[Angelox]

Well, first of all, you have to unquote them;

<!-- <maps>C:\EQEMU\Maps</maps> -->

to

<maps>C:\EQEMU\Maps</maps>

It's quoted so you can see what EqEmu defaults too, and if you want to change.
This probably will not solve your problem , and you should set it back (don't confuse yourself anymore).

What might be happening is, your Perl is not being found by EqEmu

[Lalolyen]

He said quests are working just not hail?

Is that right?

[Bakersman]

no it was my sourcing for sure, i fixed that and removed the quotes. i have to test the server again to see if it is working for the quests. but no quests where working and hail was not working if i cannot innitiate with the hail the quests will not work anyways i don't think. i am going to look into the perl and see if angelox is correct and eqemu is not finding the perl.

[Bakersman]

ok so i was looking into the problem a bit more, i hail the soul binder and no response i hail my guild master and it works. everything is sourced properly to the directories so i imagine that what angelox had mentioned that the eqemu is not set up to work with perl, but this is what i do not get, i set up the pearl the way i was supposed to and added io-stringy and the other two packages, is there other settings i am supposed to do, do i have to place another path somewhere in the pearl or somewhere in the config files? i'm not trying to confuse myself, i am trying to get it to work the perl is a default install but the location to eqemu was not. if that helps any

[Angelox]

If any other NPC in the game replys, then Perl is running ok - there's one more thing I can think of; there is one directory that comes in quests that should be outside of quests (in the eqemu/server/ ). I'm at work and can't remember the exact name, I think it's "templates" and there should be a "c:/eqemu/server/templates/" with the general soulbinder pls in there. if not, move them there, from inside /quests. Again, I may be wrong on the names, but somthing similar to "templates" should be in /quests (move or copy all the pls you see there to the one in /server) .

[Dargon]

Originally Posted by Angelox

If any other NPC in the game replys, then Perl is running ok - there's one more thing I can think of; there is one directory that comes in quests that should be outside of quests (in the eqemu/server/ ). I'm at work and can't remember the exact name, I think it's "templates" and there should be a "c:/eqemu/server/templates/" with the general soulbinder pls in there. if not, move them there, from inside /quests. Again, I may be wrong on the names, but somthing similar to "templates" should be in /quests (move or copy all the pls you see there to the one in /server) .

plugins folder

[Angelox]

Thanks Dargon, it'll be the "plugins" folder instead of "templates", so everywhere above I mentioned "templates", replace with "plugins".