Unscheduled Reboot - Monday Night 6.30

[Petroni]

I have created 76 new pets based on the usual ones you have seen in game

They cover the levels 2, 4, 6, 8 to 80

They are incremental in power and ac/amc

The higher the pet level
- the higher their HP
- the faster they hit
- the harder they hit
- the more damage they can take
- the higher their agility
- the better their accuracy

All pets
- move at the same speed atm (may change)
- can be hallucinated
- can be either tamed or TU'd
- are a minimum of 20 levels higher then the player who buys them

Some (higher level ones) have two versions, one for ac caves and an almost identical one for amc caves but with the ac/amc reversed making them stronger against magic. The one with High AMC have names ending with H

All mob names are the same as usual but now begin with the letters 'Pet' to help distinguish them from surrounding similar mobs

The reboot is to put them into game so I can start to rewrite the scripts and bring them into game progressively rather than wait for a week with few if any pets for some level players.

Usual arrangements apply. Anyone with pets will have them replaced (subject to them being new ones, not the old overstatted ones) or have cash refunds.

Anyone using ExpBars before the reboot will not have them replaced, so use them at your own risk. Please spread the word to anyone who does not use forums often (or has no forum account). Thank you.

The pet rental scripts are in a mess and will take time to edit with such a large number of changes so apologies for this. However, I figured it would be better to make the pets available as they are ready rather than delay the whole process for 5 playing days.

Feedback welcome as always

Penny

[KONG]

i dont think i explained my point clearly. im not critisising ur work. i do think its top notch. but i just didnt see the point in changing pets we had for a couple of weeks 3 days b4 the whole script been sorted. i said bac in the begining that pet lvls should be 10 lvls higher. i just think last set of changes b4 script has had a once over was a bit bozzy considering had pets for over 2 weeks so whats another 3 days really? im mainly anoyed cos i bought 5 cave men for 800k and they got pwns in yimmi path which is where most 60+ ppl lvl to be fair. complete waste of cash.
i thought a temp fix of raising all the pet lvls 10 lvls until script got the much wanted once over would be an easy way of sorting the problem instead of leaving 60% of server in a black whole.

i dont mean to have a go, i think work uve done for server is 1st class and im starting to prefer it to labby (which i thought was the dog u know what)

im more than happy to help out with nething u need a 2nd view on (like wace did with lvls) as i know u got alot of work and atm i do have spare time and tend to judge things with an unbias view compared to others ( i dont favor wizzies )

im pretty sure im not the only one who would offer thier servivces to do a bit of work in excel evenif its just to put ideas to u to review.

sorry about the missunderstanding as i know i was abit abrout in game and im sorry for that. ne thing i can do to help, let me know

[Petroni]

i dont think i explained my point clearly. im not critisising ur work. i do think its top notch. but i just didnt see the point in changing pets we had for a couple of weeks 3 days b4 the whole script been sorted. i said bac in the begining that pet lvls should be 10 lvls higher. i just think last set of changes b4 script has had a once over was a bit bozzy considering had pets for over 2 weeks so whats another 3 days really? im mainly anoyed cos i bought 5 cave men for 800k and they got pwns in yimmi path which is where most 60+ ppl lvl to be fair. complete waste of cash.
i thought a temp fix of raising all the pet lvls 10 lvls until script got the much wanted once over would be an easy way of sorting the problem instead of leaving 60% of server in a black whole.

i dont mean to have a go, i think work uve done for server is 1st class and im starting to prefer it to labby (which i thought was the dog u know what)

im more than happy to help out with nething u need a 2nd view on (like wace did with lvls) as i know u got alot of work and atm i do have spare time and tend to judge things with an unbias view compared to others ( i dont favor wizzies )

im pretty sure im not the only one who would offer thier servivces to do a bit of work in excel evenif its just to put ideas to u to review.

sorry about the missunderstanding as i know i was abit abrout in game and im sorry for that. ne thing i can do to help, let me know

If you are serious, and I suspect you are, I have a job that needs doing and would save me a lot of time.

You cannot make this many changes (and there are many thousands of key entries for me to have got wrong) without making some mistakes. What would be really helpful would be if you could test all the new mobs to make sure they actually do 'what it says on the tin'.

It would be a tedious job but each set of pets needs to be spawned, checking that the money is taken, the pets you get are the right sort and they move and hit as they should etc. There are several that have higher settings and may need some additional work (slingers, numamages etc) and others that have different attacks (posseds, mir king raging etc) and each needs to be checked to see if they work as they should (or be adjusted if the mob specific attack is too high or low). Normally I would do this in a non game cave but if you were willing, I would make a level 80 character, put it in the non game cave with a trainer, give is a load of gold and give you the idea/pass and you could run the tests and report back anything that needed fixing.

Up for it?

Penny

[Petroni]

Pet Rental script now rewritten for the gamegold section. Will do the gamepoint one later if this all works ok.

Reboot still on for 6.30 tonight. Please warn people in game.

Should be a quickie as only the monster database table to upload but we will make a back up anyway just to be good database/IT people

In case you don't know, the reason it always takes a minimum of 15 minutes to reboot is mostly because we have to wait for the database to write its final copy after the last person has logged off before restarting the software. The software only writes a backup copy every 10 minutes. If we didnt wait for that to happen, most of what happened in the last 10 minutes would just evaporate into thin ait and thats what causes your 'mini rewinds' and loss of exp, items, trades etc.

Will be as quick as we can

Penny

[KONG]

If you are serious, and I suspect you are, I have a job that needs doing and would save me a lot of time.

You cannot make this many changes (and there are many thousands of key entries for me to have got wrong) without making some mistakes. What would be really helpful would be if you could test all the new mobs to make sure they actually do 'what it says on the tin'.

It would be a tedious job but each set of pets needs to be spawned, checking that the money is taken, the pets you get are the right sort and they move and hit as they should etc. There are several that have higher settings and may need some additional work (slingers, numamages etc) and others that have different attacks (posseds, mir king raging etc) and each needs to be checked to see if they work as they should (or be adjusted if the mob specific attack is too high or low). Normally I would do this in a non game cave but if you were willing, I would make a level 80 character, put it in the non game cave with a trainer, give is a load of gold and give you the idea/pass and you could run the tests and report back anything that needed fixing.

Up for it?

Penny

yep more than willing to help. u probs thought of this already but char would need to have a ranged attacked do i can test range and melee.

[Wacey]

would be great to have the pets new stats posted when its sorted

here or on the which pets thread, up 2 u

ta, love wacey

[razzelranz]

how long till gate is reopened ?

[LonesGirlfriend]

its back up

[Daz]

Sorry off topic - Shirly is Lone back from work yet do you know :P?

Daz

[Petroni]

would be great to have the pets new stats posted when its sorted

here or on the which pets thread, up 2 u

ta, love wacey

I knocked them up and asked Lone to post them

Penny