Server side we now have 63 total buff slots for clients
They match RoF/RoF2 and are mapped as 42 long, 20 short, 1 disc
The player is limited to what their clients supports, so
Tit players can have 25 buffs and 12 songs, while other can have more
When you log in, we only load up to the max your client supports,
the rest of the buffs are thrown away
Also changed is the default Max Buff slots for NPCs, they now match Tit (60)
If you are thinking about raising that, here are what some other clients support
Tit - SoF 60, SoD - UF 85, RoF - RoF2 97 (although UI only has 85 slots, you can
edit it if you want more)
Also SoD+ the pet limits match the NPC limits.
This will increase memory usage a bit, but I don't see a solution to that
Plus I think most people want this.
Added IgnoreSpellDmgLvlRestriction rule (boolean) to ignore the 5 level
spread when checking to add SpellDmg. Resubmitting due to the change
Natedog made ::shakefist::
- When a zone boots, it will spawn an invisible npc by the name of zone_controller
- Lua and Perl scripts can be represented with this npc as zone_controller.pl/lua
- This NPC's ID is ruled be define ZONE_CONTROLLER_NPC_ID 10
- Two EVENT's uniquely are handled with this NPC/controller (They only work with the zone_controller NPC)
- EVENT_SPAWN_ZONE :: All NPC spawns in the zone trigger the controller and pass the following variables:
$spawned_entity_id
$spawned_npc_id
- EVENT_DEATH_ZONE :: All NPC deaths in the zone trigger the controller event and pass the following variables:
$killer_id
$killer_damage
$killer_spell
$killer_skill
$killed_npc_id
This code also allows you to toggle on Tick Pulling (Aggro:AllowTickPulling)
which was a pulling technique (exploit) fixed sometime in 2006
This code also implements assist caps to cut down on trains (5 by default)
Unsure if live what this number is (it exists) or if it's a per NPC basis
An NPC with Assist Aggro will not call for help, only NPCs with Primary Aggro will
- NPC:NPCToNPCAggroTimerMin 500 (Now 6000) 6 seconds
- NPC:NPCToNPCAggroTimerMax 2000 (Now 60000) 60 seconds
- Database version 9089 will take care of this update automatically only if you used the default values
- The CPU cost of NPC's checking the entire entity list to cast beneficial spells (Heals/Buffs) becomes extremely high when
higher NPC count zones exist (Based off of process profiling)
- Distance checks for every single NPC to every single other NPC who are casting beneficial spells occur every .5 - 2 seconds unless
npc_spells dictates other values, which most of the time it does not
- Zones that once fluctuated from 1-8% CPU with no activity (Idle but players present) now idle at .5% based on my testings due
to this change in conjunction with the past few performance commits, these are zones that have 600-800 NPC's in them
- These values normally are overidden by the spells table (npc_spells), fields (idle_no_sp_recast_min, idle_no_sp_recast_max)
Add new ruletypes 'Character:UseOldRaceExpPenalties' and 'Character:UseOldClassExpPenalties'
When set to true, adds in bonuses/penalties that existed in Classic
Class-based penalties were disabled during Velious, while race-based penalties were not removed until TSS
This method uses the original SOE method of increase exp needed to level, rather than decreasing exp gained
Added a custom Health Update message that will display in the middle of the players screen, to enable this server wide you must enable rule 'Character:MarqueeHPUpdates'
(Haynar) Fixed some runspeed issues with Perl and LUA scripts
(Haynar) Updated #showstats and #npcstats for new speed calcs to display speeds again in familiar float format.
(Haynar) Improved client movement while AI Controlled, such as feared and charmed. Movement will be much smoother from clients perspective.
