Miscellaneous: Magician and Necro pets shouldn't grow in size or change colour until October 1999

[Dolalin]

I've found more screenshot evidence of this.

Lasna Cheroon in Mistmoore, level 30s necro with a white necro pet:https://web.archive.org/web/19991008...es/FLO2736.jpg

[Dolalin]

A dark sacrificer in Mistmoore with a white necro pet (these are level 30+):

https://web.archive.org/web/20000302.../musicroom.jpg

[Dolalin]

More evidence, this one from May 1999.

This screenshot is taken at approx loc 300, -400 in qcat, facing Lyris Moonbane. All NPCs in the room are Necro guildmasters. They all have decaying-skeleton-sized white pets.

http://web.archive.org/web/200305071...9905/0517.html

P99 screenshot given for comparison.

Also another thing wrong I found off the back of this, it seems Bruax Grengar and Kurne Rextula should have pets. They presently do not on P99, but I see they have pet entries in the zone-npc-level-list.xls file I dug up:

qcat	Kurne_Rextula00_pet		0	1274	1274	37	37
qcat	Bruax_Grengar00_pet		0	770	770	25	25

[Dolalin]

More evidence from this vox raid slideshow. High level necro pet on vox raid is a white decaying-skeleton-size and dual-wielding daggers (only brown pets should do this post-change). Screen grab attached, link to video below.

(Bonus evidence that necros were still using CoB because Lich wasn't scribable until like September 1999. See here: https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=336032 )

https://youtu.be/akdgif0QOkQ?t=199

[Dolalin]

By the way: is that an aggro or slay message for Vox in the chat, do you think? Does she have that on P99?

Lady Vox says, 'You cannot escape my wrath.'

[Dolalin]

Another screen grab of white necro pet dual wielding in lguk.

https://youtu.be/akdgif0QOkQ?t=204

[Dolalin]

The slideshow contains the Halloween event in 1999 just after those shots. In between I can see the necro pets turn from white to darkboned.

https://youtu.be/akdgif0QOkQ?t=252

(You know it's the halloween event because Lanys T`Vyl is there: https://youtu.be/akdgif0QOkQ?t=256)

This confirms the timeline for the pet size/color change, imo. It's all in order and matches the patch note timeline exactly.

I will keep looking to see if I can get examples of mage pet size.

[Dolalin]

There is a mage earth pet size example from the same vox raid with the white necro pets. Comparing it to the size of the low level mage pets in the beta screenshots, I think they are both exactly the same.

https://youtu.be/akdgif0QOkQ?t=200

[Telin]

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

More evidence, this one from May 1999.

This screenshot is taken at approx loc 300, -400 in qcat, facing Lyris Moonbane. All NPCs in the room are Necro guildmasters. They all have decaying-skeleton-sized white pets.

http://web.archive.org/web/200305071...9905/0517.html

P99 screenshot given for comparison.

Also another thing wrong I found off the back of this, it seems Bruax Grengar and Kurne Rextula should have pets. They presently do not on P99, but I see they have pet entries in the zone-npc-level-list.xls file I dug up:

qcat	Kurne_Rextula00_pet		0	1274	1274	37	37
qcat	Bruax_Grengar00_pet		0	770	770	25	25

They all had pets when I checked on green.

[Dolalin]

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

They all had pets when I checked on green.

Nilbog told me a few weeks ago that he was making a code fix to have them summon pets, since they should have been summoning them all along apparently. Might just want to ping him to see if that went in or not, to avoid duplication of effort.