Wanting to setup my own server. Have some questions.

[muhi]

Hi

Well I use drawe's database which is good (look for world1.zip drawes post with update44dr1), the only wierd thing about it is that the NPC's buff you, but that's about it. The faction is there (i.e. slaying gnolls in blackburrow) and qeynos and around that area is certainly working. He also has some add on quests to get the soulbinders and guildmasters working. (see quest section, drawe and water's post).

As for dragon slaying, you can create your own spawns and give it a race/class i.e. dragon, and alter loot in FQAdmin. I have created my own GM items for other gms on the server using Kaiydo item creater.

I don't know what the situation was back when you started a server, but none the less I guess it has moved on quite a bit as the database doesn't seem to be too bad. I think its only some velious zones that doesn't have mobs and POP that don't seem to be working.

From the look of drawe's database, I *think* he tends to add to it, i don't think you have to wipe the databse and start all over again if you modify it, i guess aslong as you stick to the same person. The only thing is when i created my own spawns i set it to a big number incase another add on came out and it overwrote those mob ID's. I guess the same is for items etc, so a bit of forward planning/thinking maybe required if you add stuff, leave a big gap.

Oh and as for some loot, some databases has cobalt, jaundiced, carmine etc for sale on merchants. the prices seem pretty cheap so you may want to make them more expensive. i had some people ask me how could they get trak loot if obviously the server was small and didnt have a raid force. drawe's database that i used (1.1) had this on some merchants, as they soon told me when they found out.

the only thing i have found is that you may have to manually set people the meditate skill as it doesn't save it when they train. if you set it to 252 on a lower lvl character there regen is insane which is something you may or may not want to happen, and at the moment the HP regen is insane on a PC, which i guess is why people are levelling really fast on my server atm. I have implemented an NPC until a new fix comes out that sets the med skill to 1 to get people started. ~(its just not med, it can be some rogue skills too you may have to manually set).

You may have to do some tweaking on the corpses and add a variable in as when I died after lvl 12, and returned to bind point with all my stuff, my corpse had dissapeared hence no rez.

You would have alot of work to do if you were starting from a blank database completely.