Miscellaneous: Classic system messages from old log files

[mcoy]

Never mind - tested with both a hotkey and by manually entering the /loc command:

[Thu Jan 17 23:14:42 2019] You say, 'Hail, Guard Jacsen'
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:44 2019] Auto attack is on.
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] Guard Jacsen says, 'Die, dog!!'
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] Guard Munden says, 'Stand where you are, scum!!'
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] You crush Guard Jacsen for 4 points of damage.
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] You are stunned!
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] Guard Jacsen kicks YOU for 42 points of damage.
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] You have been slain by Guard Jacsen!
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] Guard Jacsen says, 'Let your death be a warning to all who dare oppose the Freeport Militia!'
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:46 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:46 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25

Not sure what I was thinking.

-Mcoy

[mcoy]

Oh, here's the timer on p99 since I just killed myself:

[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] You are stunned!
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] Guard Jacsen kicks YOU for 42 points of damage.
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] You have been slain by Guard Jacsen!
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] Guard Jacsen says, 'Let your death be a warning to all who dare oppose the Freeport Militia!'
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:45 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:46 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:46 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:46 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:47 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:47 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:48 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:48 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:48 2019] Your Location is 13.86, 92.78, -24.25
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:49 2019] Returning to West Freeport, please wait...
[Thu Jan 17 23:14:49 2019] LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...
[Thu Jan 17 23:15:03 2019] You have entered West Freeport.

Looks like about 4 seconds.

-Mcoy

[Dolalin]

I approve of this thread. I'm playing on TAKP though until the patches start again.

[Rygar]

Parser is near complete, still a lot of manual sifting but able to start bulk comparing files. A few more tweaks and she'll be purring.

Discovered that we should not be receiving 'lost experience' messages, and when we lose a level it should not welcome us to that level or inform us that we lost a level.

P99 logs:

[Sat Jul 23 09:45:06 2016] You have been slain by a burning guardian!
[Sat Jul 23 09:45:06 2016] You have lost experience.
[Sat Jul 23 09:45:06 2016] Welcome to level 57!
[Sat Jul 23 09:45:06 2016] You LOST a level! You are now level 57!

I didn't see those messages in the in era logs. In combing through Mccoy log files I found confirmation.

Earned EXP to get to level 25 initially:

[Sun Nov 11 23:29:19 2001] You gain party experience!!
[Sun Nov 11 23:29:19 2001] You have gained a level! Welcome to level 25!

Death that deleveled him 9 minutes later:

[Sun Nov 11 23:38:15 2001] You tell your party, 'shite'
[Sun Nov 11 23:38:15 2001] Kuguk slashes charbone skeleton for 61 points of damage.
[Sun Nov 11 23:38:16 2001] Charbone skeleton bashes YOU for 1 point of damage.
[Sun Nov 11 23:38:16 2001] You have been slain by charbone skeleton!
[Sun Nov 11 23:38:18 2001] Returning to home point, please wait...
[Sun Nov 11 23:38:18 2001] LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...
[Sun Nov 11 23:38:45 2001] You have entered Firiona Vie.
[Sun Nov 11 23:38:45 2001] You have joined the group.
[Sun Nov 11 23:38:50 2001] It begins to rain.
[Sun Nov 11 23:39:08 2001] Beginning to memorize Healing...
[Sun Nov 11 23:39:09 2001] You have finished memorizing Healing.

He shows up in a search being level 24 shortly after death:

[Sun Nov 11 23:41:06 2001] Players on EverQuest:
[Sun Nov 11 23:41:06 2001] ---------------------------
[Sun Nov 11 23:41:06 2001] [18 Cleric] Gershon (High Elf) <Dark Phoenix Warriors>
[Sun Nov 11 23:41:06 2001] [24 Cleric] Minnah (High Elf) <Aurora Knights>
[Sun Nov 11 23:41:06 2001] [24 Cleric] Mccoy (Human) <Celestial Prophets>
[Sun Nov 11 23:41:06 2001] There are 3 players in Firiona Vie.

Receiving a rez that brought him back:

[Sun Nov 11 23:49:32 2001] Dema tells you, 'ready?'
[Sun Nov 11 23:49:44 2001] You told Dema, 'aye, thank you'
[Sun Nov 11 23:49:47 2001] Dema tells you, 'inc'
[Sun Nov 11 23:49:58 2001] You regain some experience from resurrection.
[Sun Nov 11 23:49:58 2001] You have gained a level! Welcome to level 25!
[Sun Nov 11 23:49:58 2001] You are being resurrected...
[Sun Nov 11 23:49:59 2001] LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...

[Rygar]

Noticing some merchant messages are off on P99 vs. Classic, thank you ghetto parser!

From Qien Log in era:

Welcome to my shop message:

[Sat Nov 10 23:18:26 2001] Merchant Ueaas says 'Welcome to my shop Gnubin, you would probably find a Small Cloth Wristband handy'

P99's same message:

a brownie merchant says 'Welcome to my shop, Wedar. You would probably find a Belt Pouch handy.'

Note there should be no comma after shop, a comma should be after player name along with following letter lowercase, and no period at the end of the sentence.



Greetings message:

[Sat Nov 10 23:13:10 2001] Merchant Kwein says 'Greetings Kaeian you look like you could use a Small Cloth Wristband'

P99's same message:

a brownie merchant says 'Greetings, Wedar. You look like you could use a Pixie Wing.'

similar issue to welcome message, but no comma after player name



Hello there message:

[Sun Nov 11 00:55:16 2001] Key Master says 'Hello there Leded, how about a nice Key of Swords?'

P99's same message:

a brownie merchant says 'Hello there, Wedar. How about a nice Pixie Wing?'

The Hi there message is the only one that is correct:

[Sun Nov 11 14:24:32 2001] Terblyn Zelbus says 'Hi there Qien, just browsing? Have you seen the Spell: Translocate: Great Divide I just got in?'

a brownie merchant says 'Hi there Wedar, just browsing? Have you seen the Spell: Clarify Mana I just got in?'

[mcoy]

Not sure when it was, but I remember incidents like this. The check for level was done on your target even for self-only spells. I'd have to either target myself or clear my target in order to cast. Qien wasn't 50+ until well into Velious, possibly Luclin, so I'm not sure if it existed in Kunark era.

-Mcoy

[Rygar]

Originally Posted by mcoy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not sure when it was, but I remember incidents like this. The check for level was done on your target even for self-only spells. I'd have to either target myself or clear my target in order to cast. Qien wasn't 50+ until well into Velious, possibly Luclin, so I'm not sure if it existed in Kunark era.

-Mcoy

That spell was self-only. I am kind of on the fence about whether or not other self only buffs had similar restrictions.

For example, there are a ton of examples in your Qien file of this:

Qien logs:
[Sun Nov 11 00:35:57 2001] Your spell did not take hold.
[Sun Nov 11 00:35:58 2001] You begin casting Chill Sight.
[Sun Nov 11 00:35:58 2001] Your Sorcerer's Wristband begins to glow.
[Sun Nov 11 00:36:01 2001] Wisterian says out of character, 'I am ready'
[Sun Nov 11 00:36:01 2001] Your eyes tingle.

The spell not taking hold is extremely common before you click your Sorcerer's Wristband, making me think self-only clickies required manual self targeting. However, it does give me pause to conclude that as you also owned JBoots and its possible you just had a habit of applying insta-click jboots then Chill Sight immediately after. If you had SoW on you may get the 'Your spell did not take hold.' message from the JBoots.

Do you happen to remember anything like that?

Otherwise I'd need to make another little program to figure out which buffs you had on at the time, but there are so many SPDAT messages it would be a ton of work.

I did notice that you never received any 'Your spell did not take hold.' messages when casting Improved Visibility or Shield of the Magi, which could be by chance, but I doubt it.

[mcoy]

If I'm in Cobalt Scar then that was definitely the sequence of events. After each med session between quads I'd click jboots, then the wristband, to ensure that they didn't time out during my next quad. I had the hotkeys right next to each other. You'll probably next see a bunch of "target out of range" messages or "a wyvern looks uncomfortable" from me mashing the flux staff hotkey. After each quad I'd run back to that big rock near SS zone (CS was pretty empty when I was there so the spot was usually open) and I'd harvest and go afk.

Non-interesting trivia - Qien's jboots were looted from Drelzna so he never had to deal with the AC quest line.

-Mcoy

[Solist]

What about spells landing on you or resisting?

I dont recall early era 'you resisted the ice comet spell', just 'you resist a <mobname's> spell

[Rygar]

Originally Posted by Solist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What about spells landing on you or resisting?

I dont recall early era 'you resisted the ice comet spell', just 'you resist a <mobname's> spell

All the resist messages I see mention the spell name:

[Mon Nov 12 18:42:20 2001] You resist the EarthElementalAttack spell!!

Keep in mind the only logs I have from mcoy have very late velious info (after the final patch occurred).

Perhaps it was as you say back in the day, but would need to be confirmed via other log files or classic screenshots.