EOSERV Bug Tracker > Bug #144: Quest version usage/admin test mode

Bug #144: Quest version usage/admin test mode

Quest version usage/admin test mode
ID #144
Submitter Apollo
Product EOSERV
Severity Feature Request
Status CLOSED, WONTFIX
Submitted 1st Oct 2012
Updated 1st Oct 2012
Apollo Submitter 12 years, 6 weeks ago

It would be nice to make use of quest version numbers to update only quests where the version is altered (in case of someone working on multiple quests, only versions changes are updated with request). Also, adding an "admin" or "test" flag to the main state to grant admin only access could benefit a server to allow live testing without the need of a second server solely for testing quests.

Comments

Plasmastar 12 years, 6 weeks ago

IsAdmin() could probably serve other purposes as well, like warps to special maps, item spawns (admin clothes for non-item spawners), or whatever administrative task you deem useful enough to have a GUI.

Sausage Developer 12 years, 6 weeks ago

Admin-only testing can be achieved with a StatGreater("admin", 0) rule check, and resetting the quest if they don't meet the requirements.

A version change was going to be used to mark serious breaking changes to a quest, where all current questers would be forced to restart (though probably leaving people who had finished it alone). That would allow quest state names to be safely reused if the entire quest was redone from start to finish, without worrying about if any of the state names matched (i.e. ''quest 4, version 1, state '''DoStuff''''' would differ from ''quest 4, version 2, state '''DoStuff''''').

Requiring the version to be changed whenever you wanted to reload a quest (even to fix a simple typo) is just a huge hassle for no real gain, where marking progress on a quest with the version number has some kind of tangible benefit.

Updated Status to CLOSED, WONTFIX

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