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unknownrealm · 05-24-2004, 10:16 PM

I just removed 15k items from my world. I did this by taking out all Packgold statements in the mobiles, and in on death of base creature, adding in code to add the gold on death. This saves the world from creating unnecessary items.... maybe this should be standard for all items on a base creature, it sure would save the world from alot of items...

HellRazor · 05-24-2004, 10:32 PM

The only downside I can see to this is that your thieves won't be able to snoop or steal gold from packs since there won't be any there until the creature dies.

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Originally Posted by unknownrealm

I just removed 15k items from my world. I did this by taking out all Packgold statements in the mobiles, and in on death of base creature, adding in code to add the gold on death. This saves the world from creating unnecessary items.... maybe this should be standard for all items on a base creature, it sure would save the world from alot of items...

Captain The First · 05-25-2004, 05:20 AM

Odd I thought that that already happened.

When is loot normally generated then? Might be interesting to re-write the entire loot generation to optimize for RAM usage and item count.

**psz** · 05-25-2004, 08:46 AM

It's selected and created OnDeath for most creatures so that Luck can be used to increase the loot.

Beta 36 did not do this, RunUO 1.0 RC0 does.

Note that not ALL creatures have this, and some DO carry some items at all times.

Captain The First · 05-25-2004, 10:55 AM

Ah that explains it... I was digging in 1.0 scripts which seem to indicate what you said.

Any way to determine what creatures do have fixed loot and which don't?
(just hijacking this thread since it is an interesting topic :P)

bean56 · 05-25-2004, 05:25 PM

That isn't a bad Idea. I have disabled theifs being able to steal from creatures so that sounds like a good idea to me.
The only problem I have with that is it's a dang pain to go through every mobile and remove the packgold code.

unknownrealm · 05-31-2004, 12:01 PM

I used an editor called crimson editor, to change all packgold into //1234packgold , that way if i ever needed to go back i could just open all the files, do a global find and replace for //1234packgold. I then went into basecreature ondeath, checked fame, set gold accordingly.

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unknownrealm Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 7	Saved me some lag. I just removed 15k items from my world. I did this by taking out all Packgold statements in the mobiles, and in on death of base creature, adding in code to add the gold on death. This saves the world from creating unnecessary items.... maybe this should be standard for all items on a base creature, it sure would save the world from alot of items...

05-25-2004, 05:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
Captain The First Forum Expert Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 647	Odd I thought that that already happened. When is loot normally generated then? Might be interesting to re-write the entire loot generation to optimize for RAM usage and item count. __________________ Captain The First _________________ Undisclosed shard (status: building since Feb. 2003)

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psz UO Gamers: Demise Administrator Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Swamp Age: 29 Posts: 10,819	It's selected and created OnDeath for most creatures so that Luck can be used to increase the loot. Beta 36 did not do this, RunUO 1.0 RC0 does. Note that not ALL creatures have this, and some DO carry some items at all times. __________________ psz Demise' Creator (Retired) The RunUO.com Forum Moderator Team Former Official RunUO Scripter (Retired) Websites: My 360 Blog My Gaming Site(Old Link) My Gaming Site(New Link)

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Captain The First Forum Expert Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 647	Ah that explains it... I was digging in 1.0 scripts which seem to indicate what you said. Any way to determine what creatures do have fixed loot and which don't? (just hijacking this thread since it is an interesting topic :P) __________________ Captain The First _________________ Undisclosed shard (status: building since Feb. 2003)

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05-25-2004, 05:25 PM	#6 (permalink)
bean56 Forum Expert Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: around Posts: 1,376	That isn't a bad Idea. I have disabled theifs being able to steal from creatures so that sounds like a good idea to me. The only problem I have with that is it's a dang pain to go through every mobile and remove the packgold code.

05-31-2004, 12:01 PM	#7 (permalink)
unknownrealm Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 7	I used an editor called crimson editor, to change all packgold into //1234packgold , that way if i ever needed to go back i could just open all the files, do a global find and replace for //1234packgold. I then went into basecreature ondeath, checked fame, set gold accordingly.

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