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############################################
# Deprecated
############################################
#
# New changelog can be found here
# https://docs.eqemu.io/server/changelog/server
#
############################################
# Deprecated
############################################
EQEMu Changelog (Started on Sept 24, 2003 15:50)
-------------------------------------------------------
== 8/16/2019 ==
Akkadius: Simplified the use of roamboxes and improved the AI for roambox pathing https://i.imgur.com/z33u7y9.gif
Akkadius: Implemented command #roambox set <box_size> [move_delay]
Akkadius: Implemented command #roambox remove
Akkadius: Implemented LUA NPC:SetSimpleRoamBox(box_size, [move_distance], [move_delay]);
Akkadius: Implemented Perl $npc->SetSimpleRoamBox(box_size, [move_distance], [move_delay]);
Akkadius: Spawngroup data now hot reloads on #repop
Akkadius: Command #npceditmass now lists column options when one isn't properly specified
Akkadius: Implemented command #spawneditmass <search> <option> <value> with options [respawn_time] currently implemented
== 8/11/2019 ==
Akkadius: Added bulk edit command #npceditmass <column-to-search> <column-search-value> <change-column> <change-value>
Akkadius: Modified #findzone to include clickable saylinks to both regular zone (if able) and private gmzone instances
Akkadius: Added #findzone expansion <expansion-number> to show zones via expansion
== 8/6/2019 ==
Akkadius: Optimizations to movement updates to eliminate ghosting possibilities in larger zones
== 7/22/2019 ==
Uleat: Added script 'vcxproj_dependencies.py' - a script to help determine conflicting project dependencies (alpha-stage)
== 7/10/2019 ==
Akkadius: Add #npcedit flymode [0 = ground, 1 = flying, 2 = levitate, 3 = water, 4 = floating]
Akkadius: Added "flymode" to npc_types database table
== 7/3/2019 ==
Akkadius/KLS:
- Optimizations to packet updates introduced back into the source post network code overhaul
- Optimizations made to position update packets by sending updates far less frequently when not in line with zone:max_movement_update_range
- Optimizations made to position updates in respect to the much higher resolution of navmesh path-finding that we were using. We have cut down
on the resolution of path finding / updating so that we reduce the CPU overhead of path-finding and subsequent client update packets that
get generated this action
- Optimization made by adjusting ZLIB compression rate that was accidentally set to a compression level of 4 a long time ago
- Added #netstats admin command to troubleshoot connection issues in detail
- Websocket server is now available in zone and is bound to the same UDP port that the zoneserver listens on
- Currently implemented websocket API calls at the zone level
get_packet_statistics
get_opcode_list
get_npc_list_detail
get_door_list_detail
get_corpse_list_detail
get_object_list_detail
get_mob_list_detail
get_client_list_detail
get_zone_attributes
get_logsys_categories
set_logging_level
- Example of a Typescript client: https://gist.github.com/Akkadius/52d12d0379f36cf81c51b3b7da13db37
- Library Changes
- We now use git submodules for libraries / dependencies versus manually downloading to the dependencies folder and/or storing
said dependencies within our codebase itself
- To update dependencies (Required for compiling)
- git submodule init
- git submodule update
- Libraries now in submodules
- [glm] https://github.com/g-truc/glm.git
- [flm] https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt.git
- [libuv] https://github.com/libuv/libuv.git
- [cereal] https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal.git
- [websocketpp] https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp.git
- [recastnavigation] https://github.com/EQEmu/recastnavigation.git
== 6/24/2019 ==
Uleat: Reworked BotDatabase into a functional add-on for ZoneDatabase
- Eliminated the database connection associated with class BotDatabase
- All behaviors remain the same with the exception of the calling object
-- To invoke a BotDatabase function, use database.botdb.<f> rather than botdb.<f>
== 3/1/2019 ==
Noudess: Major faction conversion to use client data.
Pull request #802 New min/max personal faction per faction. Use of actual
client mods for race/class/deity.
This PR involves major changes to your database and your quests.
The clients recently exposed raw data included
- the min/max personal faction for each faction
- the actual faction id the client uses for each faction
- the actual mods that come into play when a PC cons an opponent that
determine your overall con to that faction.
The approach I took resulted in minimal change to the code base. I did
alter the code to enforce the new validated min/max from the client. This
min/max applies to personally earned faction. So if a faction has a min
of 0 and a max of 2000, that means your personally earned value can never
go below 0 or over 2000. The actual con, will, however often do so because
of class/race/deity modifications. I also changed the con ranges, per
Mackal's data that was proven to be accurate:
Ally = 1100+
Warmly = 750 to 1099
Kindly = 500 to 749
Amiable = 100 to 499
Indifferent = 0 to 99
Apprehensive = -1 to -100
Dubious = -101 to -500
Threateningly = -501 to -750
Ready to Attack = -751
The above means that dubious is a much smaller range now. For that reason
the scripts modify any custom faction base values to put them in the same
range, hopefully as the creators of the custom factions intended.
Also to be noted as characters that have a faction between -501 and -700
wont be dubious anymore, they will be threateningly. This is expected with
the new ranges, but might take players by suprise as the old ranges we used
were more liberal but were incorrect.
The database is changed extensively, but really only content. We're
translating faction_list to use the clients ids. As such every place a
faction_is is used, namely (see below) are being converted.
- faction_list
- faction_list_mod
- npc_faction (primary_faction field only)
- npc_faction_entries (faction_id field only)
- faction_values
Quests will also automatically be adjusted. This MUST be done after the
PR sql and before starting the server. This is automated by
eqemu_server.pl (or starting world)
Be assured, custom factions that you may have created, or obsolete or
duplicate factions in our original faction_list, that you may have used,
will be preserved. Anything that does not map directly is being moved to
the 5000 range in faction_list and any references are corrected to point
there.
A great example of this is Ebon Mask and Hall of the Ebon Mask. Many peqdb
style servers have both of these. Some have used one, some the other. We
map Ebon Mask to the clients Ebon mask and the Hall of the Ebon Mask gets
moved to the 5000 range, and all its references are preserved. However,
if you would like to make proper use of client mobs to Ebon mask, or other
factions that have duplicitous entries, I recommend you manually move to
using the correct one. In that way all of the new raw data mapped in from
the client into faction_list_mod will get used instead of what your db had
before these values were known.
In my experience converting 4 different server's data, there are only
about 20 factions moved into the 5000 range.
This PR has only 1 new, permanent table faction_base_data, which is taken
right from the client. The base field is left in case you want to mod your
server, but we are very sure that the client doesn't use a base. It uses
global mods to race or class for this as you'll see in the
new faction_list_mod.
The PR makes many backup tables, and two mapping tables that are used during
the conversion process to fix quests. This table was hand created by
analysis. This table serves no purpose after conversion except an audit
trail if we see any issues.
I will release a new PR that will clean up all these backups and temporary
tables in about a month.
== 2/7/2019 ==
Uleat: Put merc and bot classes on the same stance standard (mercs)
- Both classes will now use the same stance standard
- Pushed stance types up to EQEmu::constants
== 2/4/2019 ==
Uleat: Added command 'profanity' (aliased 'prof')
- This is a server-based tool for redacting any language that an admin deems as profanity (socially unacceptable within their community)
- Five options are available under this command..
-- 'list' - shows the current list of banned words
-- 'clear' - clears the current list of banned words
-- 'add <word>' - adds <word> to the banned word list
-- 'del <word>' - deletes <word> from the banned word list
-- 'reload' - forces a reload of the banned word list
- All actions are immediate and a world broadcast refreshes other active zones
- The system is in stand-by when the list is empty..just add a word to the list to begin censorship
- Redaction only occurs on genuine occurences of any banned word
-- Banned words are replaced with a series of '*' characters
-- Compounded words are ignored to avoid issues with allowed words containing a banned sub-string
-- If 'test' is banned, 'testing' will not be banned .. it must be added separately
- Extreme care should be exercised when adding words to the banned list..
-- Quest failures and limited social interactions may alienate players if they become inhibiting
-- System commands are allowed to be processed before redaction occurs in the 'say' channel
- A longer list requires more clock cycles to process - so, try to keep them to the most offensible occurrences
Uleat: Fix for bots ceasing combat when their 'follow me' mob dies
- Bots will revert to their client leash owner (bot owner or client group leader) when their FollowID() mob is no longer valid
- Combat will no longer be interrupted in these cases
- Does not apply to bot owner death...
== 1/26/2019 ==
Uleat: Fix for class Bot not honoring NPCType data reference
- Fixes bots not moving on spawn/grouping issue
- Report any issues with non movement-related behavior
== 1/24/2019 ==
Uleat: Extended server spellbook entries to RoF2 standard and added per-client restriction of spell id max
- Bumped server spellbook entry capacity to 720 spells
- Server keeps all 'learned' spells as found
-- Access is limited by the clients' limitations of spellbook capacities and max spell ids
-- This is done to avoid losing spells by switching from newer clients to older ones
-- Existing behavior is kept in place for illegal access conditions
- Each client is still restricted to its spellbook capacity (400, 480, 480, 720, 720, 720 - respectively)
- Each client is restricted to its max supported spell id (9999, 15999, 23000, 28000, 45000, 45000 - respectively)
- Please report any abnormal behavior so it may be addressed
Uleat: Removed server-side checksum of player profile..wasted calculation since it's performed again in all translators
== 1/20/2019 ==
Uleat: Added 'spells' entry to EQDictionary
Akkadius:
- [Command] Extended #goto via #goto <player_name> -
- This will work cross zone, cross instance, in zone etc.
- It works on top of the original #goto (target) and #goto x y z
- [Command] Implemented server side #who Example: https://bit.ly/2TZ2hvI
- Searches can be filtered by
- Account Name
- Base Class Name
- Guild Name
- IP
- Player Name
- Race Name
- Zone Short Name
- Features a clickable (Goto) saylink that will bring you directly to a player regardless of
whether or not they are in an instance
- [Command] Implemented: #gmzone [zone_short_name] [zone_version=0] [identifier=gmzone]
- Zones to a private GM instance
- Example: https://i.imgur.com/qswdrzO.gif
- [NPC] Fix issue where NPC's clip into the world and the client interprets them at 0,0,0
- This issue would show itself when NPC's would bunch up by a zone-in
== 1/15/2019 ==
Uleat: Activated per-expansion support for active inventory slot addressing
- Server honors expansions that alter bank size and power source, general9 and general10 slots
- Server honors gm flag behaviors for the active inventory slots of each client
== 1/11/2019 ==
Uleat: Modified rules system to ignore all runtime modifications of 'World:ExpansionSettings' and 'World:UseClientBasedExpansionSettings' fields.
- These fields are no longer allowed to be changed during server runtime through the command system
- Major syncronization issues between server and clients result when these fields are altered in-game
- It is not recommended to update these fields via sql queries while the server is in operation
- Failure to observe these warnings will result in abhorant behavior and loss of items
- Modify these fields during server operation at your own risk!
== 1/4/2019 ==
Akkadius: [Scaling] Global base scaling data has been updated in new database binary revision
== 1/1/2019 ==
Akkadius:
- [Logging] Added new logging category "MobAppearance"
- [DevTools] Proximity show of NPC now shows a "Path finding" circle around the proximity nodes to more clearly display
- [Scaling] Global base scaling data now refreshes from the database on #repop
- [Commands] Implemented command #killallnpcs [npc_name] for testing, leave blank for all attackable NPC's
- NPC and Player Textures
- Textures that have been changed with #wearchange / #wc or any wearchange quest script call will now stick
for new clients entering a zone
- Weapon models for NPCs changed using wearchange will stick as well during combat and when new clients enter the zone
- The above changes allow for customization of a zone and NPC's without needing static data configured on npc_types
table data and allows for much more customization options
- Implemented Quest API Calls
Perl
$client->SetPrimaryWeaponOrnamentation(uint32 model_id);
$client->SetSecondaryWeaponOrnamentation(uint32 model_id);
Lua
client:SetPrimaryWeaponOrnamentation(uint32 model_id);
client:SetSecondaryWeaponOrnamentation(uint32 model_id);
- Both of these API calls persist an ornamentation to the weapon in the inventory table and will load both
in character select and cross zone
== 12/30/2018 ==
Akkadius (KLS):
# NPC Movement Overhaul
"Recently, we landed massive changes to pathing logic (Navmesh) with NPC's that took a while to iron out but has been
an immensely positive addition to the EQEmu server core. With that, it's made us realize how much some related
functionality needed to be addressed and that involves "NPC movement logic". We've been needing to address
NPC movement logic for years as it has been fragmented and inconsistent all over the code which has made
fixing actual movement related issues a nightmare. There are many other technical things that we can go
into about it but the important part is that it is much improved! Special thanks to KLS for putting in a
lot of work to make this happen"
- NPC's should now smoothly path between source and destination, rather than "skipping" all over the place between
path points and sending sometimes several position updates, there should only be one update until NPC
changes heading or speed
- NPC pathing during flee and fear should be far improved
- NPC pathing inside of water should be far improved
- NPC transitions between water and land should now be seamless
- NPC transitions over verticals (hills) should be smoother as well
- NPC "Stuck" logic during path finding should be improved
- NPC Z coordinate plane correction now occurs during path calculation projection properly (as it should) instead of
brute forcing the current Z location along different path projections
- Example: https://bit.ly/2Ssn4Yp
== 12/16/2018 ==
Akkadius:
- Implemented: Global Base Scaling: https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki/NPC-Scaling
- Implemented: Beginning of DevTools - more to be added over time (Status >= 200)
- Display NPC info on target
- Display Client info on target
- Display NPC show commands on target
- Loot
- Grids
- Emotes
- Implemented: Support for saylinks to be used in GM commands
- Deprecated: Commands
- #listnpcs
- Implemented: Commands
- #list [npcs|players|corpses|doors|objects] [search]
- Provides clickable saylinks to go to entities
- #scale [static/dynamic] (With targeted NPC)
- #scale [npc_name_search] [static/dynamic] (To make zone-wide changes)
- #scale all [static/dynamic]
- #devtools (alias #dev)
- Implemented: New Logging categories automatically injected into `logsys_categories` table
- Fixed an issue where newly injected categories were turned on by default
== 12/15/2018 ==
Kinglykrab: Added multiple new instance related quest functions.
1. quest::GetInstanceIDByCharID(const char *zone, int16 version, uint32 char_id)
- Allows you to pull the instance ID of a client by character ID.
2. quest::AssignToInstanceByCharID(uint16 instance_id, uint32 char_id)
- Allows you to assign an instance to a client by character ID.
3. quest::RemoveFromInstanceByCharID(uint16 instance_id, uint32 char_id)
- Allows you to remove a client from an instance by character ID.
Added spell buckets, similar to spell globals.
- Uses a new spell_buckets table and the Spells:EnableSpellBuckets rule.
Added max level by data bucket.
- Uses data bucket char_id-CharMaxLevel and Character:PerCharacterBucketMaxLevel rule.
== 10/09/2018 ==
Uleat: Added bot owner options
- usage: ^owneroption [option] (or aliased as: ^oo [option])
- options are saved in the database and therefore, persistent
- Implemented option 'deathmarquee'
-- toggles client owner flag to show marquee message when a bot dies (default: disabled)
== 10/07/2018 ==
Uleat: Fixed a few bot issues..
- Fix for bot item trades not attuning
- Fix for bot mana, endurance not updating properly
== 10/06/2018 ==
Uleat: Fixed a few bot issues..
- Fix for bot 'stop melee level' not honoring setting level over rule level
- Fix for missing bot combat spell casting when within melee range
- Fix (in-work) for bots 'forgetting' current target when it flees
== 09/18/2018 ==
Uleat: Notes for manual conversion of quest script inventory slot values
- You should use reference/lookup values provided by the lua and perl apis to avoid skirting safety checks
and to ensure that the values used are the correct ones for your needs
[perl api examples]
old:
1) my $charmitem = $client->GetItemIDAt(0);
2) for($for_x = 22; $for_x < 30; $for_x++) {...}
3) for($slot1 = 0; $slot1 <= 30; $slot1++) {...}
new:
1) my $charmitem = $client->GetItemIDAt(quest::getinventoryslotid("charm"));
2) for($for_x = quest::getinventoryslotid("general.begin"); $for_x <= quest::getinventoryslotid("general.end"); $for_x++) {...} ** notice change of conditional
3) for($slot1 = quest::getinventoryslotid("possessions.begin"); $slot1 <= quest::getinventoryslotid("possessions.end"); $slot1++) {...}
[lua api examples]
old:
1) if(e.self:GetItemIDAt(30) == 31599) then ...
2) for i = 0, 30, 1 do ...
new:
1) if(e.self:GetItemIDAt(Slot.Cursor) == 31599) then ...
2) for i = Slot.PossessionsBegin, Slot.PossessionsEnd, 1 do ...
- If you need to manually assign bag slot ranges to individual 'general' slots, use this assignment for now:
-- General1 (23) = 251 .. 260
-- General2 (24) = 261 .. 270
-- General3 (25) = 271 .. 280
-- General4 (26) = 281 .. 290
-- General5 (27) = 291 .. 300
-- General6 (28) = 301 .. 310
-- General7 (29) = 311 .. 320
-- General8 (30) = 321 .. 330
-- General9 (31) = 331 .. 340
-- General10 (32) = 341 .. 350
-- Cursor (33) = 351 .. 360
- If you need to manually assign ammo or powersource slots, use these values:
-- PowerSource = 21
-- Ammo = 22
- All slot values not addressed above remain the same
- Additional information can be found at:
-- https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki/Inventory-Slots
-- https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki/Perl-API
-- https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki/Lua-API
== 09/03/2018 ==
Uleat: Rework of 'invsnapshot' command and implementation of automatic inventory snapshots.
- Inventory snapshots are now taken automatically using the interval rule values - if snapshots are enabled
- Command 'invsnapshot' now has more options available to include a restore feature
-- A pop-up help menu is available
-- argument 'capture' is available to anyone with status high enough to register the command
-- Advanced options are only available to players with 150 status or greater
-- argument 'list' provides a list of "timestamp : item count" entries
-- argument 'parse' displays a "slot : item id : item name" listing of valid snapshots by timestamp
-- argument 'compare' shows a 'difference' comparison of "snapshot-to-inventory" changes
-- argument 'restore' applies a saved snapshot to the player's inventory (with a pre-clearing call)
== 08/13/2018 ==
Uleat: Activation of RoF+ clients' two additional general slots and integration of SoF+ clients' PowerSource slot
- Inventory 'Possessions' main slots are now contiguous and implemented to RoF2 standards
-- 'slotGeneral9'(31) and 'slotGeneral10'(32) are now active
-- Possessions slot enumerations are now defined as between 'slotCharm'(0) and 'slotCursor'(33)
-- 'slotPowerSource'(21) is no longer a special case slot(9999)
- Special code has been added to exclude 'slotPowerSource,' 'slotGeneral9' and 'slotGeneral10' from server
actions in clients that do not support them.
- The lua api has been updated to use the new slot enumeration as well as having some slot range definitions added
- The perl api now has a look-up function to provide token-to-value translations .. definitions are similar to lua
- In both lua and perl, it is HIGHLY recommended that any custom scripts using hard-coded inventory slot values be
updated to use the constants/lookup methods as any old values are no longer guaranteed to be accurate
- Database will have existing inventory slot values modified to the new standard and table `items` entries will
also be updated to the 'correct' equipable slot bitmask
- Script (quest) updates are required with this change
Note: The proper way to reference inventory slots is to use either instrinsic lookups (c/c++ & perl) or to use valid
const ref declarations (c/c++ & lua). Any other method is not guaranteed to be accurate and may result in item loss
and/or unexpected/undefined behavior.
== 07/10/2018 ==
Akkadius: Adjusted DataBuckets to use other acceptable time formats
Example: quest::set_data('key', 'value', '1d');
- Acceptable inputs:
- 15s = 15 seconds
- s15 = 15 seconds
- 60m = 60 minutes
- 7d = 7 days
- 1y = 1 year
- 600 = 600 seconds
== 07/09/2018 ==
mackal: Rework of Task System, Shared Tasks still unsupported
- The tables now have better named columns, which hopefully won't need to be explained
- Text1 is now target_name, Text2 is now item_list, Text3 is now description_override
- Tasks can now reward faction hits, this is just normal NPC Faction ID entries because I was lazy
- The "Task" type tasks are now supported, a player can only be doing one of these at a time
- Activity IDs for use spell on and use skill on have been identified but not implemented
- Identified "duration code" for unlimited duration tasks (None = 0, Short = 1, Medium = 2, Long = 3)
- Activities can now have multiple zones separated by ';'
- tasks.startzone removed since it actually just uses first activity
- skill_list and spell_list are both IDs that can be separated by ';' (still unimplemented though)
== 07/07/2018 ==
Akkadius: Implemented a much better replacement for qglobals called 'DataBuckets'
- A much more detailed example can be found at: https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki/Data-Buckets
== 07/05/2018 ==
Uleat: Reintegration of inventory-based EQDictionary references
- Standardized 'CONSTANT_DECLARATION' and 'enumerationValue' tokens for most of the affected references
- Added 'BEGIN' and 'END' constants to many inventory-based ranges to help eliminate '< SIZE'-type comparisons
- Eliminated multiple, duplicated reference points of the same value context (bye, bye namespace legacy!)
- Most server values are now linked to the implementation client directly through a 'using ##' directive
== 05/28/2018 ==
Akkadius: Fixed an issue where size 0 NPC's hop in and out of the ground at idle
Akkadius: NPC's now open doors within proximity given the door doesn't have locked requirements
Akkadius: #reloadallrules will now display zones that have had their rules reloaded to GM's
Akkadius: Zones should now respect "shutdowndelay" in the zones table at all times
Akkadius: Fixed an issue where boats would snap to the bed of the body of water
Akkadius: Added rule Aggro:NPCAggroMaxDistanceEnabled - defaults to true
Akkadius: Changed map directory load structure
- maps/base/*.map
- maps/nav/*.nav
- maps/water/*.wtr
- maps/path/*.path
KLS: Implemented navigation mesh
- All up to date maps and navs can be found https://github.com/Akkadius/EQEmuMaps
- To update maps either check out the maps found in the above repository or use the maintenance command:
perl eqemu_server.pl maps
== 03/28/2018 ==
Kayen: SE_CastOnFadeEffect, SE_CastOnFadeEffectNPC, SE_CastOnFadeEffectAlway triggered spell will now hit
the correct targets.
== 03/07/2018 ==
Uleat: Added command '#ucs' to force a reconnect to UCS server.
- Works in place of client auto-reconnect packet in zones where feature is unsupported
- Currently, you will need to manually re-join channels
== 03/04/2018 ==
Uleat: Updated UCS versioning
- SoF and higher clients have a new opcode identified (update your *.conf files)
- Rework of previous ucs connectivity code
- Unrelated: Zone::weatherSend() now takes an optional parameter for singular updates (as in client entering zone)
-- prior to this, every client already in-zone received a weather update packet whenever a new client zoned in
== 02/18/2018 ==
Uleat: Bug reporting fix and overhaul.
- Fixed bug reporting for SoD+ clients
- Added ability to disable bug reporting (set rule 'Bugs:ReportingSystemActive' to 'false')
- Implemented a more detailed reporting system (set rule 'Bugs:UseOldReportingMethod' to 'false')
-- New system is not currently compatible with script-based monitoring
- Soft-removal of defunct 'Petition Bug' system
== 02/14/2018 ==
mackal: Fix Heading -- Quests broken
Please report any other issues with heading, most things were tested and worked
You can use eqemu_server.pl to run a conversion to fix your headings in quests.
Some may need manual review.
== 02/10/2018 ==
mackal: Add Global Loot system
This will allow us to implement global loot similarly to how it works on live
This system reuses our current loottable tables which the global_loot table references.
The limits for the rules to govern if a table should be rolled are min level, max level, rare,
raid, race, class, bodytype, and zone
race, class, bodytype, and zone are a pipe | separated list of IDs.
== 01/31/2018 ==
Uleat: Re-work of Bot::AI_Process(). Overall behavior is much improved.
- Removed a 'ton' of unneeded packet updates
- Added a 'leash' to the distance a bot can travel
- Added a 'main assist' feature to target control (set using group roles)
- Added combat 'jitter' movement to complement the existing rogue movement
- Attack can now be aborted if target contains no leash owner nor bot hate and leash owner turns off auto-attack
- Please report any issues with the bot AI code
Added a work-around for heal rotations crashing the server - under certain conditions.
== 01/28/2018 ==
Mackal: Spell AI tweaks
AI spells are treated as "innate" spells (devs use this term, and I think this is what they mean by it)
These spells are spammed by the NPC, lots of encounters on live work like this and this will greatly reduce
the need to do quest scripting on these types of encounters.
You can safely run update npc_spells_entries set priority = priority + 1 where priority >= 0; if you want to disable this new behavior
== 10/08/2017 ==
Mackal: Rework regens
Regen will now match whats reported by modern clients, besides where they lie due to known bugs
HP and END regens are now based on the BaseData.txt values allowing easy customization
Those cases:
- The client always applies hunger penalties, it appears they don't exist anymore on live you can turn them on with a rule
- The way the client gets buff mana/end regen benefits incorrectly applies the bard mod making these values lie sometimes
== 9/17/2017 ==
Akkadius: Add model/race offset to FixZ calc (KLS)
Akkadius: Fix 95% of food/water consumption issues, if there are additional modifiers for race/class combos - those will need to be applied
Stages should be put in place if not already:
https://wiki.project1999.com/Food_and_drink#Stages_of_Hunger_and_Thirst
Values stored in the database are 0-6000, previously we capped it at 6000 but previous math would have normal values in the 60k+ range in order for food to be consumed at a reasonable rate. We are now using more native logic where 1 = 1 minute, following logic:
(Minutes)
0 - 5 - This is a snack.
6 - 20 - This is a meal.
21 - 30 - This is a hearty meal.
31 - 40 - This is a banquet size meal.
41 - 50 - This meal is a feast!
51 - 60 - This is an enduring meal!
61 - X - This is a miraculous meal!
== 7/14/2017 ==
Akkadius: HP Update tuning - HP Updates are now forced when a client is targeted
Akkadius: Client position updates should be smoother (granted the client has a good connection)
- Clients should also no longer randomly disappear
== 7/11/2017 ==
Akkadius: Raid/Group/XTarget HP/Mana/Endurance updates now only send when percentage changes
Akkadius: Raid/Group Mana/Endurance updates should now update real-time once again
Akkadius: Fixed an issue with clients looking like they are 'skipping' when they are moving in view of another client
Akkadius: Fixed an issue with NPC's who are ghosted in plain view of a client when they are not really there
== 7/9/2017 ==
Akkadius: Fix HP update issues, rework logic for more accurate HP updates
Akkadius: Massive reductions in unnecessary network traffic especially during high spam combat fights
- HP Updates now only send to others when HP percentage changes (0-100%)
- HP Updates were sending excessively even during idle zones when HP wasn't changing at all
- Attack animations now only send once per second versus up to a hundred times a second per Mob/Client
- 17,000 OP_ClientUpdate packets per second have been observed in combat scenarios, some of the major culprits have been
throttled without affecting what the client should see
- Before and After packet differences under similar load/tests (Packets per second)
- 7,000 - 8,000 OP_Animation pps After: 600-800 pps
- 13,0000 - 17,000 OP_MobHealth pps After: 1-10 pps
- 15,0000 - 20,000 OP_ClientUpdate pps After: 500-1,000 pps
- Packet reports from a 46 client test here:
https://gist.github.com/Akkadius/28b7ad2fdd82bdd15ea737c68f404346
- Servers who use Marquee HP updates will also recieve far less packet spam as they will only be sent when HP changes
== 7/1/2017 ==
Akkadius: Resolve issues with NPC's hopping to the ceiling in small corridors
Akkadius: Improved grounding issues with NPC's during combat
Akkadius: Improved scenarios where NPC's need to be dragged out of the ground - they should correct themselves far more consistently
- Scenarios where an NPC is coming up from the bottom floor, or from the top floor, they will correct much better
- A video of these tests can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtC7bVNM7ZQ&feature=youtu.be
== 6/28/2017 ==
Akkadius: Fixed issues with Z correctness when NPCs are pathing on normal grids
Akkadius: Fixed issues with Z correctness when NPCs are engaged with players following
Akkadius: NPC corpses should fall into the ground far less
== 6/25/2017 ==
Akkadius: New rules made by developers are now automatically created when world boots up, this keeps
from having to issue schema SQL updates every time rules are added.
- Whenever a rule isn't present in the database, it will be automatically created
Akkadius: Sped up saylink retrieval x1000 helpful for dialogues, plugins with many saylinks
== 4/16/2017 ==
KLS: Merge eqstream branch
- UDP client stack completely rewritten should both have better throughput and recover better (peq has had far fewer reports of desyncs).
- TCP Server to Server connection stack completely rewritten.
- Server connections reconnect much more reliably and quickly now.
- Now supports optional packet encryption via libsodium (https://download.libsodium.org/doc/).
- Protocol behind the tcp connections has changed (see breaking changes section).
- API significantly changed and should be easier to write new servers or handlers for.
- Telnet console connection has been separated out from the current port (see breaking changes section).
- Because of changes to the TCP stack, lsreconnect and echo have been disabled.
- The server tic rate has been changed to be approx 30 fps from 500+ fps.
- Changed how missiles and movement were calculated slightly to account for this (Missiles in particular are not perfect but close enough).
- Breaking changes:
- Users who use the cmake install feature should be aware that the install directory is now %cmake_install_dir%/bin instead of just %cmake_install_dir%/
- To support new features such as encryption the underlying protocol had to change... however some servers such as the public login server will be slow to change so we've included a compatibility layer for legacy login connections:
- You should add <legacy>1</legacy> to the login section of your configuration file when connecting to a server that is using the old protocol.
- The central eqemu login server uses the old protocol and probably will for the forseeable future so if your server is connecting to it be sure to add that tag to your configuration file in that section.
- Telnet no longer uses the same port as the Server to Server connection and because of this the tcp tag no longer has any effect on telnet connections.
- To enable telnet you need to add a telnet tag in the world section of configuration such as:
<telnet ip="0.0.0.0" port="9001" enabled="true"/>
== 4/1/2017 ==
Akkadius: Cleaned up some of the NPC to NPC aggro code, only do aggro checks to other NPC's when the NPC is flagged for it
Akkadius: [Performance] Reworked how all log calls are made in the source
- Before we used Log.Out, we will now use a macro Log(
- Before: Log.Out(Logs::General, Logs::Status, "Importing Spells...");
- After: Log(Logs::General, Logs::Status, "Importing Spells...");
- The difference is
1) It's 200-300x faster especially when log statements are inside very hot code paths. We already
had most hot paths checked before we logged them, but this blankets all existing logging calls now and not just the
select few we had picked out in the source.
2) Strings don't get copied to the stack, popped and pushed constantly even when we hit a log statement that
actually isn't going to log anything.
- We do an 'if (LogSys.log_settings[log_category].is_category_enabled == 1)' before we call a log function
in the log macro so the log function doesn't get called at all if we're not logging the category
- This has increased binary executables roughly 15KB
- The old extern for EQEmuLogSys is now named LogSys appropriately instead of Log (Ex: LogSys.StartFileLogs())
- The result keeps logging footprint non-existent for when we're not logging that category
== 03/30/2017 ==
Akkadius: [Performance] Fixed an overhead issue where many hot paths would trigger quest subroutines and beneath that the code would
try to see if a quest existed perpetually (checking if file exists) even though it should have determined the quest
didn't exist the first time.
- This caused a lot of overhead in an instance where an entire zone of NPC's is pathing, triggering EVENT_WAYPOINT_ARRIVE
and EVENT_WAYPOINT_DEPART when there is no global_npc.pl/lua, or all NPC's pathing don't have a quest assigned, similar
behavior would occur. This goes for any other type of quests: spells, items, encounters etc.
== 03/28/2017 ==
Akkadius: [Performance] Fixed a large overhead issue where every single NPC in a zone was checking to depop themselves
as a swarm pet every 3ms regardless of being a swarm pet or not. Swarm pets now check to depop only when their timer is up
Akkadius: [Performance] Removed a timer where clients would constantly calculate light amount on equipment every 600ms, instead
clients will update light when changing equipment or entering a zone
Akkadius: [Performance] Disabled enraged timer checks for NPC's that do not actually have enrage as a special attack
Akkadius: [Performance] Don't process ProjectileAttack checks for NPC's that are not engaged in any combat
== 03/27/2017 ==
Akkadius: [Performance] Reworked how client to NPC aggro checks are made
- Before when reverse aggro checks were done (client to NPC), checks would happen every 750 millseconds where a client would
check an entire entity list with distance calcs and other checks for aggro, with many clients in a zone and many NPC's this would
add a lot of unecessary overhead. A temporary adjustment on 3/25 was made and upped the check to 6 seconds.
- Now, there is a new methodology to scanning. The client will build a cache list of NPC's within close range as defined in new rule:
RULE_INT(Range, ClientNPCScan, 300) and will also get any NPC that has an aggro range beyond that defined range to use in
the frequent checks for aggro, the result is far less overhead
- Client scanning changes when moving versus not moving, the client will scan aggro every 500 milliseconds while moving, and
3000 millseconds aggro check when not moving, with a 6000ms re-fetch for close NPC's
- A demo of these changes can be found here:
https://youtu.be/aGroiwLSTVU
== 03/25/2017 ==
Akkadius: [Performance] Reduced CPU footprint in non-combat zones doing constant checks for combat related activities
Akkadius: [Performance] Reduced CPU footprint in cases where a client is checking for aggro excessively every 750 millseconds. This has
been adjusted to 6 seconds per new rule RULE_INT(Aggro, ClientAggroCheckInterval)
- When zones have many players, with many NPC's, this adds up quickly
== 03/12/2017 ==
Akkadius: [Performance]
- Implemented range rules for packets and other functions
RULE_INT ( Range, Say, 135 )
RULE_INT ( Range, Emote, 135 )
RULE_INT ( Range, BeginCast, 200)
RULE_INT ( Range, Anims, 135)
RULE_INT ( Range, SpellParticles, 135)
RULE_INT ( Range, DamageMessages, 50)
RULE_INT ( Range, SpellMessages, 75)
RULE_INT ( Range, SongMessages, 75)
RULE_INT ( Range, MobPositionUpdates, 600)
RULE_INT ( Range, CriticalDamage, 80)
- (Readability) Also cleaned up some formatting in messaging and packets so it is easier to understand what is going on with the code
== 03/09/2017 ==
Uleat: Fixed a few glitches related to bot trading and other affected code
- Added a temporary fail clause for partial stack transfers to prevent client item overwrites
- Return messages no longer repeat the top cursor item when multiple items are pushed there
- Test slot for client returns is now handled appropriately for parent and bag searches
- FindFreeSlotForTradeItem() now begins at the correct bag index on subsequent parent iterations
Uleat: First step of implementing inventory v2.0
== 03/08/2017 ==
Uleat: Complete rework of the bot trading system
- Equipment slot priority can now be tailored..though, a recompile will be required
- All item validations and slot assignments for trades and returns are now performed before any actual item movements occur
- Failed trade/returned items will now go straight into the client's inventory, just like a normal trade transaction
- A 'green' message appears at the end of each successful trade informing the trader of 'accepted' and 'returned' item counts
- Bots respond to the trader directly now instead of using BotGroupSay()
- Bots will still only allow trades from their owner (currently, too high a risk of exploit and/or malicious activity)
- Partial stack movements (i.e., ammo refills) have been scoped..but, not implemented
- I have not been able to reproduce any 'illegal' weapon combinations with this code
- NOTE: The report of item duplication with bot return items appears to be an inventory desync condition
- I experienced this condition both before and after the rework with RoF+ clients (UF- appears ok)
- The bug lies within the actual client inventory system and not with bot trades
- Please post any issues with this change as they arise
== 02/27/2017 ==
Uleat: Notes on bot movement speed changes:
- Clients (players) appear to be on a different speed scale than other entities (NPCs, etc...)
- The server does not calculate deltas/velocities for moving players..those come the client itself
- GetBotWalkspeed() and GetBotRunspeed() are specific to bot movement calculations
- The class Mob equivilents are not scalared so that a 'client-oriented' value can still be attained
- The value of ~1.786f is derived from the ratio of 1.25f/0.7f (npc speed/client speed)
- Modifying the two speeds like this is a rough guess-timate..but, appears to at least bring the incongruous behavior to acceptable levels
== 02/26/2017 ==
Uleat: Moved bot `npc_spells` entries from '701-712' to 3000 + <class_id> .. also, added melee types for future expansion
Uleat: Moved bot spell casting chance values into database - this will allow admins to tailor their bots without having to rebuild server code
- Each entry uses a 3-dimensional identifier: [spell type index][class id][stance index]
- [spell type index] is not the SpellType_## bit value..use SpellType_##Index instead
- [class id] values of 1-16 are valid and hold a direct correlation to server-coded player class values
- [stance index] is a direct correlation (0-6)
- the 'conditional fields' are currently predicated on 4 compounded boolean states:
- `pH_value` represents bit '0'
- `pS_value` represents bit '1'
- `pN_value` represents bit '2'
- `pD_value` represents bit '3'
- all other conditional fields are masked based on these 4 predicates
- the full conditional field enumeration is as follows:
- `nHSND_value` - negative Healer/Slower/Nuker/Doter
- `pH_value` - positive Healer
- `pS_value` - positive Slower
- `pHS_value` - positive Healer/Slower
- `pN_value` - positive Nuker
- `pHN_value` - positive Healer/Nuker
- `pSN_value` - positive Slower/Nuker
- `pHSN_value` - positive Healer/Slower/Nuker
- `pD_value` - positive Doter
- `pHD_value` - positive Healer/Doter
- `pSD_value` - positive Slower/Doter
- `pHSD_value` - positive Healer/Slower/Doter
- `pND_value` - positive Nuker/Doter
- `pHND_value` - positive Healer/Nuker/Doter
- `pSND_value` - positive Slower/Nuker/Doter
- `pHSND_value` - positive Healer/Slower/Nuker/Doter
- Single- and mixed-bits fields should be filled-in based on the boolean 'AND' concept
- (i.e., if 'healer' then `pH_value`=x; if 'slower' then `pS_value`=y; if 'healer' AND 'slower' then `pHS_value`=z; )
- most cases can allow the same value across all fields..but, there are some that shouldn't and this format allows for their discrimination
- Valid `##_value` entries are 0-100..though, the field accepts up to 255... Anything above 100 is clamped to 100 upon loading, however...
- Not all conditions are currently coded and changing a field may not produce any results
- The 'default' database values will be changed and tweaked as bot spell code modifications occur
== 02/25/2017 ==
Uleat: Implemented rule-based node pathing for bots
- This currently applies to out-of-combat following movement and blocked los in-combat movement
- The default is set to 'true' (use node pathing)..so, consider disabling it if cpu use is too high
- If you want to disable node pathing, apply the optional sql '2017_02_25_bots_use_pathing_rule.sql' file located in the utils/sql/git/bots/optional sub-directory. This will apply a 'false' rule..but, it can be changed as desired
- This helps with bot movement..but, there are still issues...
Uleat: Implemented rule-based position update packet with movement timer check for bots
- This currently only applies to out-of-combat movement
- The default is set to 'false' (original behavior) to help save bandwidth (each bot will send an update packet every 1/10th of a second when enabled)
- If you want to enable the position update packet, apply the optional sql '2017_02_25_bots_update_position_with_timer_rule.sql' file located in the utils/sql/git/bots/optional sub-directory. This will apply a 'true' rule..but, it can be changed as desired
- This appears to help with/eliminate rubber banding
== 02/23/2017 ==
** THIS NOTE HAS BEEN SUPERCEDED ON 02/26/2017 **
Uleat: Moved bot spell casting chance values into database - this will allow admins to tailor their bots without having to rebuild server code
- Each entry uses a 4-dimensional identifier: [spell type index][class index][stance index][conditional index]
- [spell type index] is not the SpellType_## bit value..use SpellType_##Index instead
- [class index] values of 0-15 are valid and determined by subtracting 1 from the actual class value
- [stance index] is a direct correlation (0-6)
- the [conditional index] is currently predicated on 2 compounded boolean states:
- not primary healer/not primary slower: 0
- primary healer/not primary slower: 1
- not primary healer/ primary slower: 2
- primary healer/primary slower: 3
- Valid `value` entries are 0-100..though, the field accepts up to 255... Anything above 100 is clamped to 100 upon loading, however
- Not all conditions are currently coded and changing a field may not produce any results
- The 'default' database values will be changed and tweaked as bot spell code modifications occur
== 02/20/2017 ==
Uleat: Reworked bard bot spell twisting and updated their spell (song) list
Uleat: Added ability to shift to pre-combat song buffing by selecting a non-pet npc target, eliminating the need to mix all bard buff songs together
== 2/19/2017 ==
Akkadius: Added a fix for limiting the amount of items sold in a stack when the resulting return coin is higher than the supporting struct for returning coin
== 01/31/2017 ==
Uleat: Modifed bot movement behavior in an attempt to 'normalize' it. This is a hack fix and will be revisited at some point. (Probably just need a follow function rather than use movement, when the leader of the follow chain is moving.)
== 01/26/2017 ==
Uleat: Change rogue bot behavior to eliminate twirling combat. They will only get behind the mob if they are not the mob's target or if the mob is feared or fleeing. This may lower rogue bot dps a small fraction..but, is more in-line with realistic game mechanics.
== 01/17/2017 ==
Mackal: Combat Revamp
- This change brings melee combat into line with how combat is done on live.
- This correctly applies the PC damage tables and corrects stacking order of many spells
- Given the scope of what had to be rewritten, it was not feasible to preserve the old combat system.
This means you will likely have to rebalance your server, which sucks, but this is very
accurate so shouldn't require any more changes, at least none that would cause you to have
to rebalance your server again.
- For rebalancing, I would recommend running the optional SQL and tweaking from there.
- To help with rebalancing there is a simulator included at utils/combat-sim.
- You can enter the mitigation or offense values you would like to balance around (#showstats will show you them)
a 1 on the sim is min damage 20 is max.
- Quick recommendations for best ways to improve PC DPS, give them some worn (or AA) SE_DamageModifier and/or SE_MinDamageModifier
== 12/03/2016 ==
Uleat: Added hack detection to trade code
- If illegal items are found in trade slots when the 'trade' button is clicked, the trade is cancelled and a message is sent to the offending player
- Future revisions will, at a minimum, log the player as a hacker once the quirks have been worked out
== 12/01/2016 ==
Uleat: Disabled RoF+ clients from augmenting items not in their possessions slots (0-29, 9999, 251-330) to abate an exploit in the current code
== 10/17/2016 ==
Uleat: Moved namespace ItemField from item_instance.h to shareddb.cpp - the only place it is used
Uleat: Separated class Inventory from item_instance files into inventory_profile files
Uleat: Renamed class Inventory to EQEmu::InventoryProfile
Uleat: Renamed enum class InventoryVersion to MobVersion
== 10/16/2016 ==
Uleat: Renamed struct EQEmu::ItemBase to EQEmu::ItemData and class ItemInst to EQEmu::ItemInstance
Uleat: Added class EQEmu::InventorySlot. Re-attached pertinent inventory token references to EQDictionary
== 10/15/2016 ==
Uleat: Changed filenames to facilitate future inventory naming conventions
== 10/09/2016 ==
Noudess: Rogue usage of merchants while utilizing sneak was limited to
temporary items, as the code that checked faction per item sold did not
take into account that rogue was sneaking. Now sneaking rogues can see full
inventory on merchants (well, unless an item requires a + faction value).
== 09/12/2016 ==
Akkadius: Massive overhaul of the update system and EQEmu Server management utility framework
(known as eqemu_update.pl) now known as eqemu_server.pl
- eqemu_server.pl is now a general EQEmu Server management utiltiy framework that can be used
to extend to many purposes. It's main purpose is to simplify server management
- eqemu_server.pl changes:
- Menu has been completely changed, instead of a number based (enter number and hit enter)
you now type commands within the menu (Ex: 'database')
- Handles last mile installation for Windows Servers (See Github Readme)
- Handles last mile installation for Linux Servers (See Github Readme)
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- Fedora
- CentOS
- Now checks for Internet connection before performing web requests
- Database:
- Regular schema updates now happen automatically, if new binaries present updated
database schema changes, script will backup first, auto update database, and continue
world bootup
- Regular bots database schema changes now happen automatically similarily to the above
- Database checks can also be ran manually via the script menu
- CLI Arguments
- Arguments passed to eqemu_server.pl can execute the same name-based operations that
are present in the interactive menu
- Example: "perl eqemu_server.pl opcodes" will download opcodes
- Example: "perl eqemu_server.pl backup_player_tables" will backup and export player tables
- Bots
- Bots can now be automatically setup in Linux or Windows via the 'setup_bots' command
- Windows will auto download binaries and install, along with installing bots db schema
- Linxu will auto compile binaries and install, along with installings bots db schema
- Utility scripts
- Linux now has the following utility scripts for download, available via menu 'utility_scripts'
and via Linux default install:
- server_launcher.pl
- server_start_dev.sh
- server_start.sh
- server_status.sh
- server_stop.sh
- Usage analytics
- eqemu_server.pl now collects usage analytics, this is very helpful for our developers
- Example: We can see how many installs have been performed:
https://github.com/EQEmu/Server#server-installs
- This helps us see how often certain utilities are used as well
- Console Messages
- All script messages have been prefixed with a bracket action Ex: [Update] [Database] [Info]
to be more consistent with our log conventions
- 'New Server' Utility
- Running 'new_server' from the main menu or 'perl eqemu_server.pl new_server' while in
a completely new folder with just the script present, will allow a server operator
to initiate a full clean PEQ install in that folder. Pulling down all assets and
installing a PEQ database with the name the server operator gives the prompts in the
script
== 09/10/2016 ==
noudess: Task system experience based on a % of a level did not take into
account the hell levels rule. Now it does.
== 09/04/2016 (Changes over past few months) ==
Akkadius: Fixed an issue where clients would crash with health marquee's
Akkadius: Fixed issues with NPC's "ghosting" when they path
Akkadius: Overhauled worldserver logging
Akkadius: Pets now don't actually spawn until the player has fully entered the zone (Live-like)
demonstar/KLS: Adjusted some background workings on how spell buff tics are synced with the client
Uleat: Optimizations to map loading and zone times
Uleat/Akkadius: Fixed bandolier exploit where you could equip a 2H and Shield
mackal: Re-worked spell re-use timer logic
mackal: Source optimizations all over, crash fixes
mackal: Fixed some issues with illusions on zoning
mackal: Fixed some client DOT stacking bugs
mackal: Invis will now break on AA spell casts and item cast
mackal: Changed how Loot response code works
mackal: Implemented 3 additional spell gems with (Mnemonic Retention)
mackal: Instant spells now have instrument mods
mackal: Rate limit character saves
mackal: Made it so items no longer do TGB (Live-like) Rule implemented to disable
mackal: Set pet buffs limit to 30
== 09/03/2016 ==
Uleat: Changed 'Bind Wound' behavior to match the best references that I could find for post-2004 era.
Note: If you wish to retain the old method, source in the optional '2016_09_03_old_bind_wound_rule.sql' script file.
== 08/27/2016 ==
Kinglykrab: Added optional IP-based account exemptions.
- To use this system simply set World:EnableIPExemptions to true and create an entry in the ip_exemptions table.
- Example: exemption_ip of IP 192.168.1.4 in ip_exemptions with exemption_amount of 1 will allow only 1 account to login from IP 192.168.1.4.
- Note: If there is no exemption, the amount of accounts logged in from a singular IP will default to World:MaxClientsPerIP
== 08/23/2016 ==
noudess: Force mobs on a depop @ end pathgrid to still do this on idle zones.
This makes them be more random after a zone is idle, rather than always showing
up at start point when 1st person logs into an idle zone. Much more like live.
I dion't think this will be much of a performance problem. Once they path and
depop, no mkore cpu usage.
== 08/14/2016 ==
mackal: Implement Linked Spell Reuse Timers
- For whatever reason this is a bit unfriendly, but that's how it is on live.
- Titanium is especially unfriendly with large differences in reuse times (ex higher canni and the first 4)
- Unsure when this went live for spells, but canni was at least linked at OoW launch
== 08/13/2016 ==
Kinglykrab: Implemented optional avoidance cap rules.
- Serves to eliminate God-like characters on custom servers with high item stats
- Rule Names:
- Character:EnableAvoidanceCap (default is false)
- Character:AvoidanceCap (default is 750, beyond 1,000 seems to make characters dodge all attacks)
== 08/02/2016 ==
Uleat: Changed 'SendZoneSpawnsBulk' behavior to use near/far criteria (live-like) when sending packets.
- Zone-to-Zone client loading will see a small decrease in time (less than 10~15%)
- World-to-Zone client loading appears to greatly benefit from this (tested 'devastation' - pre-change: ~22 seconds, post-change: 12~15 seconds)
- This change does not affect the final spawning of mobs in the client
== 07/31/2016 ==
mackal: Implement more spell gems!
- There are a few things still left to due like make dealing with losing gems nice (reset AAs, going to an older client etc)
- Sadly SoF disc release doesn't support gem 10 like one might expect :(
- So changed clients:
- SoD = 10
- UF = 12
- RoF/RoF2 = 12. I know the UI supports 16, but the client does not and can cause client crashes
- The quest APIs assume you pass a valid spell gem ...
== 07/28/2016 ==
Uleat: Implemented zone memory-mapped file usage
- Zone map files are converted to pre-loaded binary files, bypassing the (sometimes) time-consuming raw data transform process
- There are three ways to convert files:
-- Do nothing! The zone bootup process will check for a mmf file and load it, if found, or create it after the 'normal' transform process is complete