Miscellaneous: Classic system messages from old log files

[Rygar]

Noticing some more things as I go through these files (I'm building a parser to compare P99 log messages to these logs... but its slow going with a 2 month old baby and a Three-nager).

In the above example where he died from the charbone skeleton there is this line:

[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.

Just a generic load message, but on P99 we get a zone specific message and an additional line:

[Wed Dec 07 19:57:54 2016] You have been slain by an elemental warrior!
[Wed Dec 07 19:57:54 2016] You have lost experience.
[Wed Dec 07 19:57:58 2016] Returning to The Hole, please wait...
[Wed Dec 07 19:57:58 2016] LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...
[Wed Dec 07 19:58:16 2016] You have entered The Hole.

It doesn't appear as if the 'You have lost experience.' message should be given? I actually don't have the raw logs on this computer, but can double check tomorrow to confirm.



Another message is the drinking of alcohol. The message you receive when you drink a beverage yourself is correct, but when you see others drink alcohol you get a wrong message.

Classic message:

[Thu Nov 15 20:04:33 2001] Glug, glug, glug... Operian takes a swig of Fish Wine.

P99 message:

[Sat Sep 03 09:41:13 2016] Glug, glug, glug... Fannop takes a drink from a Fish Wine.

Lastly for tonight, I found these messages in mcoy's logs:

[Wed Nov 14 01:35:53 2001] You must stand up and be still to wave.
[Tue Dec 18 16:34:54 2001] You must stand up and be still to rudely gesture.
[Tue Jun 25 00:34:02 2002] You must stand up and be still to perform this action.

When I tried to sit and /wave and /rude on P99 I just get the generic 'You must stand up and be still to perform this action.'

I don't know what other emotes had specific standing instructions, but those 2 for sure did.


I'll keep posting messages as I find them... thanks for caring.

[MilanderTruewield]

[Mon Nov 19 02:07:29 2001] You are not sufficient level to use this item.

Correct on P99.

[Rygar]

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

Correct on P99.

Thank you, I must never have tried to use a clicky below the necessary level. I only had the 'you will is not sufficient' style message in my P99 logs.

EDIT: Also just confirming that the 'You have lost experience.' message should not exist on P99, it wasn't in any of the mcoy logs.

[feniin]

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

Correct on P99.

Poor Camien.

[Rygar]

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

Another message is the drinking of alcohol. The message you receive when you drink a beverage yourself is correct, but when you see others drink alcohol you get a wrong message.

I forgot to mention that after running a larger parse I saw some correct messages for alcohol drinking later in my P99 log file (such as minotaur home brew). So not sure if you guys fixed that already or if there is just some clean up to verify all the alcohol gives a consistent 'swig' message.

[Rygar]

Another potential find, from Qien logs:

[Thu Jan 24 19:30:05 2002] Sadaasy regards you indifferently -- You could probably win this fight.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:09 2002] Sadaasy shouts, '14lvl druid lfg. plz send tells'
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:11 2002] Zorach says out of character, 'he'll be easy to pull, don't worry'
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:12 2002] You forget Cobalt Scar Gate.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:12 2002] Beginning to memorize Manaskin...
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:13 2002] Felnema waves at Cinamini.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:14 2002] You have finished memorizing Manaskin.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:17 2002] Your spell is too powerful for your intended target.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:17 2002] Your spell is too powerful for your intended target.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:18 2002] Felnema begins to cast a spell.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:21 2002] Your spell is too powerful for your intended target.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:22 2002] Cinamini experiences a quickening.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:24 2002] You begin casting Manaskin.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:26 2002] Cinamini beams a smile at Felnema.
[Thu Jan 24 19:30:29 2002] Your skin gleams with an incandescent glow.

I found it odd that a wizard was getting this message for spell casting restriction. I wrote a little sub program to see what he had memorized at the time. I went up to his last death (where we know all his spell gems were cleared). Every time he finished memorizing a spell I added it to the list, every time he forgot a spell I removed it from the list. I see he had this memorized:

Atol’s Spectral Shackles
Draught of Fire
Gate
Harvest
Lure of Frost
Manaskin
Paralyzing Earth
Rend

Manaskin being the only 51+ Level spell that is a buff. Even though it is self-only, for whatever reason, the level restriction check occurs first and then prevents casting. If you look at his log record, he previously targeted and conned a level 14 druid shortly before casting.

I don't have a high enough character with this type of self-buff to test, so not sure if it is working correctly. I did forum search and found this:
https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ntended+target

In the thread OP mentions the restriction message only occurs when targeting a corpse, which seems to imply it doesn't happen when targeting players (improper behavior).

I'm sure its not major priority, and the logs are very early Luclin that just show this, but I find it unlikely the behavior changed post Velious.