Bugs and Problems

[Minirva]

Today I went to kill Terris Thule for my progression. Totally forgot about the gargoyles towards the end and wiped. Ran back, buffed up and went at her again. This time though she did not spawn any adds (butterfly or gargoyles) and she did not AE debuff my party. My guess is that I engaged her within 20mins of my wipe and wondering if that had anything to do with it. Nothing major, but I'd figure I would bring it up.

Thanks and also loving the server.

[Minirva]

Item: Veil of Flames
Zone: VT

Got this item the other day for my bare. Click or effect does nothing. Cast goes off and I get no message.

[jbhuss]

Hey Minirva,

One question. Were you using the click charm buff at the time? It has a damage shield built into it that blocks a lot of high end damage shield buffs. The illusion you mentioned has a damage shield built into it also. The clicky charm item Control has made blocks the ranger buff Call of Rathe even though the Call of Rathe is probably a better buff. Just a thought.

Manaen

[Minirva]

Crap, you know what. I made sure I had all DS clicked off for the same reason you said.....besides the charm...

Thanks, I'll give that a try next time I log in.

[Minirva]

Yeah that was the issue. Just had the charm DS on also. Sorry!

[Namehater]

My hotkeys reset anytime I zone, any ideas?

[bensonaw]

Hi Control,

Need help to look into the group mana / stamina bar bug that some players are experiencing?

The HP of group members not moving at all and always at 100%.
The HP of mobs also not moving and always at 100%.
Mp and stamina not displayed at all.
Reboot PC didn't help. Untick game folder as read only wont help either.
Problem remains even a few days later ....

[Control]

My hotkeys reset anytime I zone, any ideas?

Your UI folder or maybe your entire EQ folder probably got set to read-only when you installed. Not sure why, but it happens sometimes. If you check the properties on your EQ folder, you should be able to untick the read-only box.

Hi Control,

Need help to look into the group mana / stamina bar bug that some players are experiencing?

The HP of group members not moving at all and always at 100%.
The HP of mobs also not moving and always at 100%.
Mp and stamina not displayed at all.
Reboot PC didn't help. Untick game folder as read only wont help either.
Problem remains even a few days later ....

Sorry, usually happens when bugged script causes a process to get stuck. I've killed a couple of processes and will restart the server tomorrow morning for good measure. (note: may not work for Howling Stones because HS hates me :P )

[Jim9575]

Thanks Control, seems good for me now with the health bar issues.

Scaly

[Chiad]

Had a fair bit of crashing or odd lag today where there was none previously.

Crashed zoning in and out of north / south kaladim.
Odd lag in Qeynos / Qeynos Catacombs.
Someone else reported strange lag (NPCs don't con but you can target them) in Kunark, think it was Burning Woods but can't be sure.

[Burdoc101]

Evening,

Was in Bastion of Thunder this evening with my six toons and I made to the second floor (I think? It had stormrider's and gargoyles). I am not really sure what to do for progression here, but when I made it to the the stormrider area I was killing things just fine and tried one of the four corners to see if I was able to click something and port. Nothing happened, but then my entire group became bugged. I have tried re-logging several times and have only been able to get one to escape back to PoK. It's hard to explain the issue. One minute my group was working fine, after click this pillar next to a gargoyle my group was frozen. I could move around the world, but attacking/casting/origin/talking they were unable to do (npcs also were "frozen"). I could sit and camp, but that was about it. The one that escaped, I tried clicking the middle pillar that has lightning coming out, but nothing; then I cast origin; nothing; then I saw my hate list update with 4 gargoyles; I attempted feign death; then the game rushed/caught up and ported me to PoK from origin.

[Burdoc101]

To add to the above,

Characters, after 3-4 relog in attempts finally were out of the bug and were able to origin.

Unfortunately, my guild decided to raid BoT and the keys I do not believe are working as intended with mixed messages of Allakhazam with final key being raid wide and 1st key being group. The group key however ported only invdividuals and not group.

And one of the people unkeyed clicked the lightning stone and caused the entire zone to crash.

[Burdoc101]

To note, the groups would not port while in a raid, but outside of a raid group they ported fine.

[jbhuss]

Hey Burdoc,

Once you are on the second floor, each of the four corners has two port spots. As you face any corner, the right takes you to a giant tower and left takes you back to zone in. Here is a map I studied to help me understand the flow of the zone. The one in the center of the second floor takes you up to Agnarr’s event. One recommendation is to make sure your group/raid is standing as close to on top of the port stones as possible. I had an issue once when I clicked the portal without the key also. Once I had a key, I no longer had issues.

I don’t know much about boxing but I know some people use a macro to have group auto click books. Since this is keyed you may want to make sure that is off. Multiple clicks from un-keyed toons could make some weird things happen.

http://www.allakabor.com/eqatlas/bastio ... ermap.html

My 2 cents. Hope that helps.

Manaen

[Chiad]

Had a fair bit of crashing or odd lag today where there was none previously.

Crashed zoning in and out of north / south kaladim.
Odd lag in Qeynos / Qeynos Catacombs.
Someone else reported strange lag (NPCs don't con but you can target them) in Kunark, think it was Burning Woods but can't be sure.

Add Neriak 3rd Gate to that.

Was able to permanently recreate something similar - zoning from Rivervale to Kithicor always crashes without fail. Doing the rogue epic is leading me to these obscure places :)

[Chiad]

Still got the same problems. It seems in certain obscure zones (this time North Qeynos) I lose connection after about 30 seconds. I can still see mobs, they still path around the zone but I can't open doors or interact with merchants. Then on zoning I get a crash.

Zones where this doesn't happen:

PoK
Anywhere in Velious

Zones where it does:

North Qeynos
Qeynos Catacombs
Neriak Third Gate
Rivervale

Now that I think about this, I had the exact same problem when I started on this server six months ago in Greater Faydark but then it seemed to go away. If you get a chance to look into it some time would be amazing as it's stopping me doing the rogue epic. Would be cool to hear if anyone else gets these problems. Cheers!

Edit to say in case it's of any use: when I log back in after crash my char then appears in the adjacent zone, so I'm not stuck there.

[Control]

Sometimes a server process gets stuck due to a bugged script or something and causes issues with desyncs. That's usually fixed by killing the stuck processes or restarting the server. However, if you're able to reproduce the desync by doing nothing but zoning into certain zones, then it sounds like there's an issue with your zone files.

Just to double check, are you using the RoF2 client? and did you download it from vogeq.com? If not, try that.
Also, another thing that fixes some crashes for me, using 'set affinity' to set each eq instance to it's own single core, (doesn't sound like it would affect this problem, but /shrug, can't hurt to try)

[Burdoc101]

Elemental Planes Access

Grand Librarian Maelin is bugged to say the least. My guild finished WArlord Rallos Zek last night and all 16 characters went to get flagged for the elemental planes. Each hail or each click on purple text or each "what lore" or "what information" would cause PoK to crash; without fail. Sometimes the person asking for the flag would get the character flag and someimtes wouldn't causing multiple retries with the same characters. This caused my two buddies to give up for the night. I also feel bad that this probably ruined other players experiences in PoK and had no intention for it. I hope this issue can resolved or a custom npc can be made to flag people appropriately.

[Burdoc101]

Pet Commands below only work some of the time:

Pet guard here:
Pet will aimlessly wander in a direction in certain zones like Sol Ro tower sometimes (maybe something to do with the floor and elevation?) or wont guard at all and will just follow as usual.

Pet hold:
Pet will attack creatures at will, either from zoning and forgetting the command or because of certain spells or activated abilities from the mob itself (maybe rampage?). This ability does work, but mainly with auto attack functions from npcs unless the npc targets the pet.

Pet greater hold:
In regards to pet greater hold, I never used Ghold on live so not 100% how it is suppose to work, but pet still attacks even when your not attacking or not giving commands.

[Chiad]

Sometimes a server process gets stuck due to a bugged script or something and causes issues with desyncs. That's usually fixed by killing the stuck processes or restarting the server. However, if you're able to reproduce the desync by doing nothing but zoning into certain zones, then it sounds like there's an issue with your zone files.

Just to double check, are you using the RoF2 client? and did you download it from vogeq.com? If not, try that.
Also, another thing that fixes some crashes for me, using 'set affinity' to set each eq instance to it's own single core, (doesn't sound like it would affect this problem, but /shrug, can't hurt to try)

Thanks for the suggestions. I am using RoF2 and set affinity didn't help.

I replaced new versions of all the Kithicor files (using that as a test zone) but that didn't help. The only other thing I can notice is that if I zone back and forth quickly it works (the crash is always from the Rivervale -> Kithicor side, not the other way round). So if I zone into Rivervale but then zone back within a few seconds, no problems. If I give it 20 seconds and then try to zone, the crash.

It's not the end of the world and if no one else is having the problems I expect it's something my end. I'll try to have a think what it could be. It only happens in a small number of old world zones... hmm. Will post here if I find anything.

P.S. got this in sky.txt log, not sure if it's of any relevance:

2018-01-18 19:56:22 SkyERROR: Missing section [ColorMap-eviltree-0]
2018-01-18 19:56:22 SkyERROR: Missing section [ColorMap-xorb-0]
2018-01-18 19:56:22 SkyERROR: Missing section [ColorMap-grelleth-0]
2018-01-18 19:56:22 SkyERROR: Missing section [ColorSet-grelleth0]

[Chiad]

Side note: I never see any helms whatsoever on player characters, with it toggled on or off, only just noticed that (haha). Wonder if that suggests I fudged up somewhere.

Sorry for spamming this thread.

[Burdoc101]

Side note: I never see any helms whatsoever on player characters, with it toggled on or off, only just noticed that (haha). Wonder if that suggests I fudged up somewhere.

Sorry for spamming this thread.

Sometimes adjusting the settings in the graphics will fix it. I would trying messing around with the Advanced Lightning, Advanced Shadows options and even using the old vs new armor sets within the options menu as well.

[Burdoc101]

Assist Silver Wing - Veeshan Peak 2.0 Quest - GoD expansion

So, with the release of Ykesha and LDON, we should be able complete, if not all, but the of majority VP 2.0 quests. However, this feels odd asking for help looking into a problem with the aforementioned quest due to it being a GoD quest. If this is not an intended feature I understand.

I have been trying to figure out if the pick-up items (Inscribable words) exist. So far I have found 3 out of the 4 for the quest, but the 4th one has been elusive. Either it exists but is not where it should be; or, the Nagafen lair zone is still in an older version (but fabled mobs wouldn't exist either, I assume). The Inscribable Words [Nagafen's Lair version] should apparently be at the base of King Tranix's throne as a ground spawn at location -1569 -386. To note, there are eight different versions of Inscribable Words used. Links to the quest, items, and zone will be below.

Assist Silverwing
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/ques ... quest=2902

Inscribable Words [Nagafen's Lair version]
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=29972

Nagafen's Lair
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zstrat=50

[Chiad]

Sometimes adjusting the settings in the graphics will fix it. I would trying messing around with the Advanced Lightning, Advanced Shadows options and even using the old vs new armor sets within the options menu as well.

Cheers for that will try it at the next chance, miss those barb helms ;)

[Deacon]

I was checking Deepwater Knights Faction for the Fiery Defender quest for my Paladin by name of Deacons. . . unfortunately when I zoned into Tox Forest in order to go grind some faction in Paineel, it crashed me.
Is this something on my end, or the server end?
And could I get Deacons pulled out of Tox Forest, so that I can log in again?