There isn't a lot of activity on the forums anymore. If you're having troubles, the best way to get in contact with POL regulars is through the Discord. On the forum main page there's a link to join it. We can help you in #setup-help or #escript-help in there.

First, check to see if your scripts have a custom attack system. Look for syshook.cfg (there can be multiple and they can be in any package) look for an entry for Attack. Something like

SystemHookScript newCombat.ecl
{
Attack DoAttack
}

If you do have it, you can find the code in that script ...

There is no second shard unless you run a second instance of POL. Do you mean a different realm (map)? The second entry in the servers.cfg should still connect you to the same shard, it just goes through a different internet route. You can't connect from your public IP to your public IP directly ...

I believe you need to define a "separate server" for LAN connections in servers.cfg. I had this entry in my servers.cfg for logging in on the same computer. You'll have to change the IP and IPMatch fields so they match up to your LAN. Name field doesn't matter and the port should be the same as the ...

It's mainly caused by lag. It means they tried to drop an item that they didn't pick up. If they pick up an item and then drop it quick enough during lag, the drop packet might arrive before the pick up packet causing the error. If it happens quickly in succession for one character, it could be a ...

Good to see you're dabbling with the scripting and getting it together. As always, if you get stuck, you can ask on the discord channels or drop me a pm. Work is getting lighter again so I might not be half asleep when responding

"bad version number xx" for the scripts means they were compiled for a different version of POL. Any time you change POL versions, you must also replace the em files and ecompile with the one that comes with that version then force a recompile of ALL of your scripts.

Look around in your itemdesc.cfg for the entry
Change it to
also within the entry, you should define the SpellType as "magic"

Try going into your settings and change your speech color. I've seen instances where players would crash if their text color setting was corrupted.

But for AddAmount(), you're already passing an item reference so you already have it and don't need a new one whereas with the Create* commands, the item didn't previously exist.

https://downloads.polserver.com/Core/Wi ... 13-bin.zip

Direct link until they fix the page which was broken from a Webhost upgrade.

a lot of ecl files don't exist... did you compile your scripts? No matter which scriptbase you're using, you must run eCompile from the version of POL you're using. If you change versions at all, you have to recompile the scripts.

This won't work. eCompile grabs the includes before assigning constants for the very reason that includes can contain constants. It doesn't go through includes one at a time and assign the constants since it needs to know all of the functions and constants available to it before it begins to process ...

Yukiko and I were talking it out in Discord and I stated my reasons for something like "craft an item" without turning it in, just the fact that you crafted it. What would the point be? Well, on my shard, I was moving away from the random gain 0.1% every now and then for repeatedly doing the same ...

Hmm... this is what I found. I though I had more documented like how the config file would be formatted and such but this was my outline. The idea was to have the quest system run through 2 main scripts. A questgiver AI script and a main script that always ran and received events from other scripts ...

This brings up memories of a system I wanted to do a long time ago. I had documentation on how I wanted to structure it and everything. Config driven from a quest package, I had a ton of //Insert quest stuff here... in my scripts too. Damnit don't make me have to pull out old backups and actually ...

Ciechu wrote: Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:54 am What about map editing? I'm using CentrED software with UOP to MUL converter. What soft do you prefer?

That would be a tutorial for a different post since it doesn't really pertain to POL.

Sysload gives you the CPU usage and I believe the severity is in parentheses. The lower this number is the better.
cputime is how much processor time POL is using. The lower, the better.
scpt I believe is the number of script instances that are running.
task is how many tasks POL is running per ...

Are you writing your own script and including outbound.inc? HTTPRequest() is defined in os.em so you need a "use os;" in the script.

You guys realize that the packet is 0xD9, not 0x9D....

There definitely seems to be fewer of us left around...

A long time ago I made manual patches that you can just unzip into your UO directory. The ones I made will patch you a bit further to 4.0.2a patch 2. www.cwo333.com/patch

We still have a Discord? I've tried to join a few times but got kicked really quickly. Figured it was probably just an experiment that was being closed.

POL has no direct function to list all of the items on the server and trying to do the set of functions to list everything would likely freeze your server for a while. The best thing you can do is write something that reads items.txt directly.

so the type of chop-shop solution I would do...


SendOpenSpecialContainer(who, bag);
If(bag.container.isA(POLCLASS_MOBILE))
UpdateMobile(bag.container, UPDATEMOBILE_RECREATE)
else
//Build and send a draw packet to put it back
endif

Have you also tried forcing it by making the item invisible ...