Merchant Last Names By Shop Type
Hello,
I have developed a patch which associates a name with each of the merchant_ids in the database. This has two effects:
1. It allows a world builder to look through a list with names instead of a list of IDs for selecting which shop to give to a merchant.
2. It allows the last name of merchant NPCs to be set to things more like EQ live, so you can see quickly what a given merchant has. The showname field of the merchantsets table with an Id of the merchant_id for the NPC will be substituted for the NPCs last name if it is a merchant, and such a record exists in the merchantsets table.
I have gone thought every merchant type in the current project EQ database and given them a name. Im not an EQ expert, so im sure some of them are a little off, but it gets the point across.
This was partially inspired by iEQ, and I tried to keep the database table compatible with it so it might be used to edit this new name system. I had to add a new column to the table for a shorter name, which also serves as a separation between a name the developers give the shop, and the client sees in the game. Because this second name isn
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