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The task goal system made implementing tasks a little confusing since the goal could be ambiguous depending on type. This also didn't support filtering on multiple goals (e.g. looting items from matching npc names inside an area). Deliver types could specify an npc id in `delivertonpc` but the database may have multiple npcs with the same name or a task might want to match partial npc names. This replaces goalids with explicit fields for npcs, items, proximity areas, and touch switch ids. These changes make managing task data easier without needing to update multiple tables and allows filtering task updates by multiple criteria. To mitigate any performance impact from merging task proximities, only clients with explore tasks in the current zone are checked during client movement updates. Items and npcs still support goallists but it would be possible to denormalize entries into delimited strings to combine with the match lists. This would also decouple task goals from reward lists. The client task update functions were refactored to run through a single filtering function which significantly reduces duplicated code from the legacy task system. This will also make it easier to later implement any unhandled types. Since the new fields will handle filtering single entries and lists based on having values set, `goalmethod` now only distinguishes quest controlled from source controlled. This is a breaking api change, `taskexploredarea` has been removed since explore ids no longer exist.
On the move from svn -> git we lost the ability to track revision numbers on the repo. No big deal! What we'll do instead as follows: -Optional SQL updates go in optional/ -Required SQL updates go in required/ All updates will follow a specific format of YYYY_MM_DD_Desc.sql, this is so it's easy to sort. So the following is a good example of what I expect to see 2013_02_16_GitConversion.sql The new bots/ folder contains two sub-folders named optional/ and required/ for updates.