New To This, Any Guides?

[Talio]

Alright i spent literally 2-3 hours combing the internet for tips concerning this and then I am humbled by my own stupidity as i click "insert record" under navicat...

I feel like such a newbie. Somehow, I know an orc pawn is to blame.

[Talio]

So, i've managed to add that row to my variables table and yet it doesn't make new players start in the nexus. They all still attempt to zone in to tutorialb.

I am running the most recent version of EQemu and am using the most recent version of PEQ database files. I use Navicat to alter the database, and am really stumped as to why my new players don't spawn in the nexus (i've also tried spawning them all to tutoriala as a test, to no success).

If anyone's willing to help me out I'd appreciate it!

[Derision]

Browse your rule_values table. If you have a row with a rule_name of World:EnableTutorialButton and it's rule_value is true, set it to false.

[Talio]

I decided to source a fresh peq database since i've toyed around with the old one a LOT learning about all of this, once i'm done sourcing i'll be certain to try that area of the database. Thank you very much.

I also had a great deal of difficulty with placing NPCs... I used the tutorial found here http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...egoryCreateNPC and it didn't work at all. No new NPC... no nothing. Is there something new that isn't included in that guide?

[Talio]

Well maybe I'm just too stupid to understand how to make any of this work. I'm really hating how every tutorial and guide I read through is out of date and I end up having to pull from 3 or 4 different sources just to get ANYthing running at all. Now my database is all messed up, zone's wont load past "loading loot tables" and on top of all of that? When I source peq I hit stuff about error 121 and spawn2.frm can't be written... Then I read that the spawn2 table could not be written.. So nothing that goes into spawn2 could be written.

Trying to create spawn2 directly doesn't work either... so wonderful. All this to a fresh database. Oh yes and I deleted the mysql directory and the perl directory when I uninstalled the two of them.

This is all after a fresh install of the entire setup. Oh yea and the newest revision of EQemu doesn't seem to have all of the same files as the previous... and has SQL files of it's own to source maybe? I'm at a loss. If anyone has any UP TO DATE guides, or sources of information regarding this issue then it would be a great help. I've spent a few days really trying to get this running and today was one huge step backward.

I understand that a lot of these things change over time, and that it's difficult to keep guides up to date. But at the same time, why keep them up if they are so out of date? I apologize if this sounds like a rant, I just want to have a little EQ server that I can toy with and maybe learn from and apparently that's impossible.