My first .pl

[farce]

*if* npc text is triggering EVENT_SAYs, that sounds like a bug.

however, I dont remember that happening back when I was quest writing... so it's prolly just a fubar script.

Also, I notice that you have periods for commas in your script solid11... I found the fix for that bug a long time ago in case you didn't know =)

[RangerDown]

NPC's do trigger other NPC's say events on EQLive. Usually scripted to make the NPC's appear to be arguing with each other.

That said, I don't think the say events in the EQEmu quest system are intended to respond to NPC says, at least not at this time. It's worth asking at this point, did you get your copy of perl recently? And from an official download source?

[solid11]

I got perl 5.8.2 MSWIN 32 from the link in Malignus' tutorial. Also using the PEQ quest pack, but don't think that matters. I read you need to label pl files with ID of npc. All the pl's in quest pack are labeled with npc's names, and broke down by zone like quests\gfaydark\soulbinder_oakstout.pl
Does that matter? I only checked a couple of quests and they seem to work this way. Just thought you had to have IDs, or is that the old perl system?

[RangerDown]

As of a recent change the files can be named either by NPC ID or name. Be aware that unless there's been a very recent change to fix this, a quest file by name won't work for an npc that begins with #, and Verant had a thing for putting important quest/encounter mobs as #theirname.

You may have either a corrupt or old Perl installation, or using old server code, as that really is the only explanation for the same quest working on other servers but not you.

[solid11]

So what is a current perl program? Is Malignus' tutorial link out of date? It was a pain to get it installed just for the fact of the IO scalar issue, but I did get rid of the errors. If everything works besides soulbinder, I'll just stick with the auto bind quest that does work for now I guess, but I would like to know about current perl.

[RangerDown]

Since perl can be a pain installing sometimes, the soulbinder quest alone isn't worth upgrading over. I haven't seen Malignus's tutorial, but if it is linking to a specific perl version instead of just pointing you to the perl site and letting you get whatever's latest, then you run the risk of perl being out of date.

[solid11]

There is a newer version on the activestate website which I just DL'd but will the PEQ quests work if i upgrade?