You are welcome. I am glad I could help.

It looks as if the delay in spawning is the CProps MinDelay and MaxDelay for each spawnpoint. I would check those values. At first I thought the delay might be in the spawnPointControl script at startup. I suspected that script might pick a random delay to start spawning the NPCs so as to avoid exce...

Yes. Here is the link to the "basic" set of scripts that allow you to log in and walk around.

https://downloads.polserver.com/browser ... cSetup.zip

We have a new Core build up for download here . Thank yous all around to Turley for giving us user definable method scripts for some POL Class Objects. :) From the core-changes.txt file you can see the list of objects affected: -- POL100 -- 10-13-2018 Turley: Added: syshook.cfg SystemMethod for defi...

Core Essence, I do not know if items that are newbied are ever placed on a NPC . I guess they might be and if they are they should work like newbie items do on a player and not show in the corpse gump. Dev, the great thing about my option 2 is that if the Core were to handle that there is no additio...

The problem is that when you rummage around in a corpse and move the clothes, from the server perspective, you are "removing" the item whilst it is on your finger but if you drop it back in the corpse it should re-equip it on the corpse. Off the top of my head I can see two possible solutions. . 1. ...

POL devs did not break it. They fixed it. Originally, according to Nando, corpses did not show any items on the corpse that were equipped on the NPC before it died.

I was informed by Nando that is not a bug . He added this to the Core because he thought it was strange when a character died that it's corpse was displayed naked. It was added during POL the 098 development cycle after POL098.2 but before POL 099 development was started. From the core-changes.txt: ...

Regarding the Listener section being optional post above. If you define Listeners in uoclient.cfg you must set ListenPort in pol.cfg to 0. No problem. All is right with the world, at least as far as POL is concerned. If you disable all listeners then you are supposed to define a listen port in pol.c...

You can download it here . From the core-changes.txt: -- POL100 -- 10-07-2018 Turley: Added: array.sorted_insert(obj, sub_index:=0, reverse:=0) assumes an already sorted array and inserts given obj. sub_index and reverse parameter have to match the sorting criteria of the array. 10-06-2018 DevGIB: A...

Also, under Explanation in the uoclient documentation it states the Listener section is optional. This appears to be false as well. I did some further testing and found another issue. The first thing I did was went back to a single uoclient.cfg file with the following setting for Listener: Listener ...

In the POL documentation for uoclient.cfg it states that uoclient.cfg is required to start and there can only one uoclient.cfg file present in the server. Neither one of those things is true. I removed, renamed actually, the only uoclient.cfg file present in my copy of the Modern Distro. I then laun...

It wouldn't be a "blanket privilege". In the equip script it could be enabled but do not forget there is an unequip script. There you could revoke the privilege. I think this is much more versatile and convenient than even my suggestion. Also, if it is a privilege it could be used in custom magic sp...

The Privilege idea sounds good to me. It could work as a "buff" (I hate that word) or bonus for players and the NPC AI could enable it for NPCs that do not use ammo.

I don't understand how adding a flag to a weapon's description would work in cases where you do want the weapon to consume ammo. For example I define a regular bow with the flag set to not consume ammo. Does that mean any character using the bow would never have to worry about carrying arrows? This ...

I think a flag ConsuneAmmo 0/1 added to an NPCs definition for any NPC that might use ammo is probably the best way to go.

Ah go for it Dev. I found a SciTE project manager thing that looked promising but the last commit was at least 4 years ago I think. I prefer using things that are somewhat actively developed. Were those scripts for adding tree view to SciTE? If so PM the link to me and maybe I can review them. I'm n...

The other day whilst testing ammo usage of NPCs, specifically arrows, I suddenly realized that neither Distro had any archer NPCs and n archer AI script for NPCs. So I added one archer NPC, a Ratman Marksman to the npcdesc.cfg file in /pol/config. I also added archerKillPCs.src to /pol/scripts/ai. I...

I agree that having a tree view is one feature that would make SciTE a nice choice for a free editor. SciTE is an open source project. If someone with more knowledge of C++ could add a tree view that would be wonderful. I am glad there are people who can afford to pay for Ultra Edit and for an edito...

As I think I mentioned earlier the problem with using a version of SciTE other than the one we currently provide is that the official SciTE does not yet have the updated eScript lexer which provides 5 additional highlight colours. If you can live with only 3 colours then you can just copy a few file...

Unfortunately the original story that was linked to rolled out of the news feed on that site and I do not recall what it was about. As for "many of our posts" being "rants or raves", on the POL forums, I would say no they are not. I wouldn't call requests for scripting help, feature requests, bug re...

Bug fix release posted 2018-09-22. See original post for info and the download link.

Has anyone used this? I would like to know if there are any bugs that we might have missed. The problem with testing something you have written or modified is that you are too familiar with the way it is "supposed" to work that you miss things.

For the Official release POL 099 on this page you will find the online documentation and there is a link at the top of that page to download the docs. For the Beta release POL 100 on this page you will find the online documentation and the link at the top of the page to download the docs for the bet...

Yes, the conversion of decimal to hexadecimal and vice-versa is great. I also like the call tips. As we haven't had that before I suspect I will find it as or more useful than the converter. One of the things that prevents POL SciTE from working more like a "proper" IDE is eScript's loose typing of ...