vbGore Free Online RPG Engine

I remember starting to use vbGORE I found it difficult to create NPC's and such.

If you've ever worked with private servers for Ragnarok Online, NPC creation is a breeze for such a game.

I made a program that could create NPC's for Ragnarok Online cause it was basically just instructions like writing a .config file. (though different.)

Maybe we could look into making "commands" for NPC's to follow. like...

It could be that simple, and opens doors for complex made NPC's, like banks, lotteries, advanced quests, etc...

Comments, suggestions?.

thats what npc creation is at the moment, you just type the figures and numbers into mysql database.

Its easy when you get the hang of it

yes npc creation is alot easier if you have a db viewer such as sqlyog. Typing all those 'insert' lines can get really annoying.

Yeah I know it's easy at the moment, but easy is a word considered different to many people. A person could look at a mysql database and be like "What the hell do I do?"

I'm talking more along the lines like .txt files, one for each NPC and a main.txt file that puts the NPC's in their respective places. And when you add one, you just add an extra line in the main file. This would make organization and creation of NPC's a lot easier in my opinion...

I think it'd make it a lot more difficult. Instead of having fields with specific values, you have to memorize what ever field is and hope you get it in the right place, then you have to make sure you update the main file.

I seriously doubt Spodi will go BACK to the old system of everything being in files....also, do you realize how slow .txt's files are...i do...I've used a engine, that used the above '.txt' files, and my spped was laggy...with vbGORE, and MySQL, its super fast

You do also relize, that MySQL tables, are used to build WoW, the biggest MMO in our times....

If you want a easier engine, then go and look at Elysium....its easier, yes, but compared to vbGORE, its a beggingers engine...it, however, uses the systerm you have decribed above

Just LEARN he NPC systerm, found in the MySQL Databases...the db allows to make NPC's fairly easily already, and with the large opions we have, its really good to

Bankers = Already Installed into the NPC system
Advance Quests...use the Player to NPC interaction feature
Lotteries...if you seriously want this n vbGORE, just ask



...and thats why we've opened up a forum: to help people with there problems....and thats why some of us have also helped build a collection of tutiorals on MySL, that can be found on the Wiki

Tay

I know the NPC system and how to make them. I just "enjoy" making NPC's when I'm making them with this way. And it opens doors to complex stuff, 'tis all I'm saying.

I was just using .txt files as an example because that's what Ragnarok Online uses and it was the closest thing I could think of. Don't get me wrong though, MySQL is a wonderful way to do things, I just wanted to get away from boring work.



I think you're talking about still doing it with MySQL when I'm saying something totally different, cause there's not fields involved.

Well you might want to post a more specific example, since without completely re-writing the whole system, you are going to have to define it pretty much the same way as it is done in the database but with delimiters splitting the categories.

Well, you DO have the code...why don't you add it yourself, if you really want to Sure, it may take a few months of leaning how to program, and then a few more months of then programming it into the code....but, if you really want it, it will be all worth it....right?

"Yeah I know you enjoy it at the moment, but enjoy is a word considered different to many people. "

This topic is already over, and that comment was unnecessary. It was almost in a gradeschool type mocking comment.
How is enjoying something different to different people? Enjoy is one word to one thing, you enjoy something. Easy is a word that could be called "difficult" for someone else.