Miscellaneous: Classic system messages from old log files

[Rygar]

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

I don't know how to do the neat box thingy that Rygar uses but here's one I see from Loading's log on RZ:

[Thu Nov 22 18:42:49 2001] A shriveled mummy tries to hit YOU, but misses!
[Thu Nov 22 18:42:49 2001] a shriveled mummy was hit by non-melee for 1 points of damage.
[Thu Nov 22 18:42:49 2001] A shriveled mummy was pierced by thorns.
[Thu Nov 22 18:42:49 2001] A shriveled mummy hits YOU for 24 points of damage.
[Thu Nov 22 18:42:49 2001] You have been slain by a shriveled mummy!
[Thu Nov 22 18:42:51 2001] Your Location is 1843.00, 93.00, 12.40
[Thu Nov 22 18:42:51 2001] Returning to home point, please wait...
[Thu Nov 22 18:42:51 2001] LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...
[Thu Nov 22 18:43:13 2001] You have entered West Freeport.

You're able to run the /loc command after dying. On p99 I don't believe you're able to do so, as I still have the habit of hitting my /loc hotkey when I die and I'm pretty sure it doesn't work. I'm not on a char that I'd be willing to eat a death on to test it atm.

-Mcoy

I would have to check the rest of the logs to verify, but in the other death example I posted there was also a 2 second delay from slain to load message. Not sure how much delay is on P99.

And Caiu, I'm pretty sure at least some are fixable, as nilbog changed the zone load name of the Hole based on what I found in Mcoy logs. I wouldn't put it past that EQmac logs were used for a lot of system messages.

Would definitely like confirmation if I'm wasting my time though.

[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

[Rygar]

Parser is chugging along nicely, dusting off some more gems. Apparently we have the critical hit message slightly off on P99.

From Mccoy logs:

[Sun Nov 11 22:17:02 2001] Kuguk Scores a critical hit!(27)
[Sun Nov 11 22:20:17 2001] Kuguk Scores a critical hit!(25)
[Wed Nov 14 21:40:46 2001] Panthurs Scores a critical hit!(42)
[Sun Nov 25 02:34:26 2001] Zilo Scores a critical hit!(23)

(On P99 we aren’t capitalizing ‘scores’ and we have a space after the exclamation point):

[Wed Feb 08 19:58:59 2017] Tormaax scores a critical hit! (52)
[Wed Feb 08 19:59:03 2017] Bardoc scores a critical hit! (69)
[Wed Feb 08 19:59:03 2017] Bardoc scores a critical hit! (37)

The immersion cometh...

[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?'

[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.

[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