New To This, Any Guides?

[unknownhost]

it can be very frustrating, believe me i know! but dont give up! keep at it and it all becomes more and more clear over time.

a suggestion if you havent tried it, try the
peq serverpack installer.

http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4346

and the self-installing updates are here(just need the most recent i believe?)
http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4612

they will make the server setup unbelievably easier.


for your edits aside from the mysql tool you are already using (which is ideal for many things but clunky for others) try using GeorgeS tools are they are nothing short of badass in every regard.

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=674

[trevius]

For spawning NPCs, GeorgeS has a very nice tutorial on his website here:

http://wizardportal.dyndns.org/eqemu...tut/index.html

Also, at the top of that page, there is a link to another good tutorial for making NPC pathing.

And, if you haven't tried them yet, try installing and setting up GeorgeS editing tools. His tools are pretty amazing and make database editing much easier and quicker.

Keep in mind that everyone around here gives information when possible. There is so much info out there that it would be near impossible to have it all up to date. But even though a large amount of it might have some outdated information, it is still WAY better than not having any info at all. Almost all of it is still extremely useful, and mostly only just needs a small change here and there.

[Talio]

Alright well with a combination of information I managed to set a different starting point for new players (woot). I am going to delve into setting NPCs and such now... You're sure right there's a lot of information out there.

I was steamed last night when NOTHING I did was fixing the database to at least work the way it had before toying with it. I even did a fresh clean download and install with winCVS of fresh database files which caused zone.exe to error on tables that were sourced and existed in the database (npc factions).

I ended up sourcing a dump of my old database from when I transfered this lil project from a different computer over to a dedicated always-online machine. This dump seemed to have fixed the problem and the database now runs again (thank god my father taught me to always back stuff up from the time I was 3 to 21).

Now.. zone.exe seems to take longer loading the loot tables.. but eventually gets through it and I'm not going to complain.. an extra minute or so on loading up the server shouldn't be a problem especially if i end up loading a lot more into it later on =)

Thank you for all your patience folks, I appreciate it and will look through these links for any info that might help me in my endeavor to not screw up another database! lol.