Question about collecting

provocating · #1 12-20-2010, 12:20 PM

I am just curious on doing a packet collect of a zone if you stop, or accidentally zone out, or even have to stop because it is such a complicated zone then why can you not piece together captures ? It would seem since you are generating an SQL file you could do a compare with a program and see where the differences are ?

I am just curious because I am currently doing a zone and notice that I have some spawns that a previous dump someone did, were missing.

**Derision** · #2 12-20-2010, 02:04 PM

Well, you can piece captures together manually if you want, e.g. if you have a named/rare spawn that was in your new capture that wasn't in a previous one, you can just take the INSERTs for that mob and source it in.

Of course you would need to change the id column to be one after the last insert from the previous collect.

Also, there is no automated way oif knowing which mob from the previous collect was the placeholder for the rare mob, unless it doesn't roam, in which case you can just look for a mob in the previous collect at the same location.

If it does roam, then you would have to look at the grid entries to figure out which the placeholder was. Of course if you are familiar with a particular zone on Live, then this would be a lot easier.

provocating · #3 12-20-2010, 02:05 PM

Well my log for westfreeport was 10 times large than the one here ...

http://www.peqtgc.com/logs/

Do you want to look at it before I post it somewhere ?

provocating · #4 12-20-2010, 02:17 PM

Well I uploaded it, guess I should had put my name on the filename but I did not.

http://www.peqtgc.com/logs/file.php?...eeportwest.zip

If someone could check it to make sure I did it right. I spent about 3-4 hours in freeportwest trying to make sure I opened every vendor and combed every inch of the zone, using the automap in EQ to make sure I touched all areas. If this is a way i can contribute then this is something I can and do not mind doing.

**Derision** · #5 12-20-2010, 03:38 PM

I just sourced in that log and can verify it is a good collect. You have a few more spawns than the previous collect (I think there are some Christmas mobs up at the moment), about 50 more merchants, and several more ground spawns (possibly seasonal, maybe added since the original collect, etc.), plus loads more pathing data.

So, good job

It's really up to you if you want to spend time collecting. I'm, sure the collect will come in useful, either to PEQ when they reach that expansion in the progression, or to other server ops who want to populate those zones sooner and not wait for PEQ.

provocating · #6 12-20-2010, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Derision

It's really up to you if you want to spend time collecting.

I want to do anything to be useful instead of being a leech and using the product without chipping in, so yes I am going to continue this. My only issue is my guy hit level 65 and I never leveled him further. So I will collect every zone I can collect. I am going to start with Freeport and the adjacent zones, then spider out from there.

I just really wanted to know if I did it right, the last thing I want to do is spend hours and not get a good extraction. I am saving the pcap files to my server in case we need them in the future. Doing East Freeport as we speak.