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#1 May 24 2012 at 2:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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The everquest.allakhazam.com site's menu's bestiary links now point to pages on that site rather than eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com. Let me know if you find anything broken.

Soonishly, redirects will be in place for all eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com links so any bookmarks/links/etc. will still work fine. Most stuff was already using pages over there so far as the back-end was concerned.

Unifying our EQ sites has been a goal for a while, and I've slowly worked in a change here and there when I had them time. Finally, I had some time to finish it up and I think we're about ready to move everything over during the next day or two. This should help stop going between subdomains and the headaches it causes on the back-end as well as helping the visually jarring aspects of the whole layout changing on page change. In all, this will actually make it easier to give new features to the EQ site, including better wiki integration for the old EQB pages.

Let me know if you find any bugs or anything.

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#3 May 24 2012 at 2:48 PM Rating: Excellent
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acprog wrote:
Thanks. Happy 1k posts!



1k for Always is a big deal... that's a long-term project!

And thanks for working on the EQ pages, most of us old EQ players aren't afraid of some progress :)
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And as of now, eqb links should all be pointing to everquest.allakhazam.com instead of eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com. Again, please let me know if I broke/missed something.

The eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com site/skin will likely be going away early next week; you should find everything you need on everquest.allakhazam.com. If not, let me know.

Edited, May 25th 2012 2:42pm by acprog
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Just checking it out, and found that when going to a zone list, it gives text instead of the icons for the has an image, doesn't have an image. See http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npclist.html?zone=275

I was also wondering if there would be a way to add Humanoid or Headshottable to the Advanced Search?

I'll look around some more to see if anything else jumps out.

BTW: The advanced npc search is very nice.

EDIT: Also, can you maybe add a search field for the wiki portion (or make it search everything also, comments, wiki, etc.)

Yther Ore.

Edited, May 25th 2012 3:45pm by Yther
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Just checking it out, and found that when going to a zone list, it gives text instead of the icons for the has an image, doesn't have an image. See http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npclist.html?zone=275


What are you used to seeing/what is missing?

Ah, I think I see what it was. Let me think on how to un-clutteringly do that. I sorta combined some search pages and split off the display page and the zone info got chopped.

Edited, May 25th 2012 2:54pm by acprog
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Wayback example of blackfeather roost: http://web.archive.org/web/20100201035118/http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?zone=436

The actual icons: With picture: http://web.archive.org/web/20100201035118im_/http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/shared/haspic.gif
no picutre, then same url, except file name is transp.gif

EDIT: The html code for the image on the wayback machine page:
<img class="picicon" alt="No Picutre Included" src="http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/shared/transp.gif">


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Edited, May 25th 2012 4:01pm by Yther
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Uh, look now and tell me whatchya think.
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Very nice. I like how you added the old bestiary zone header when a zone is selected. THe only complaint I have now, and not sure if you can fix it, is the sort by zone, is sorting by the zone number and not the name (text), so it doesn't really seemed sorted, other than the same zone is in a group.

EDIT: Was wondering about bestiary zone posts also. Not sure if you can add them in, or even make a separate page(s) to link to.

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Edited, May 25th 2012 4:52pm by Yther
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Comments for zones should be on zone pages (zones.html). If not, I'll see to that. The other feature requests I'll look into.
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Awesome. Don't see the old bestiary zone posts on the zone pages yet, on the few I've checked so far (the ones I remember posting myself).

EDIT: Ok, I see what you did, for Ssra the bestiary posts are this url: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zone=140 while the Alla zone posts are this url: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zstrat=140

The only problem I'm having is figuring out how to get to the bestiary posts page. I found the one link by going to my posts and finding one for the page.

Maybe a link to both pages on the search page results if a specific zone is picked?

EDIT 2: And congrats on 1K post count Alwayslost! Smiley: clap

EDIT 3: I found some more stuff on the home page at http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/ but looks like web stuff. Anyway, the first separator bar on the left menu links, has a link to http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/NOANCHOR and in the MMO News section, if you use large font sizes, it's overwriting the next lines. I never noticed that before. It would make room for the larger fonts.

Yther Ore.

Edited, May 27th 2012 8:58pm by Yther
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Great work! It's nice to know that the site is still being actively improved. I know it's easy sometimes to play defense and just fight fires.
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Thx a lot
#15LAGONIS, Posted: May 26 2012 at 3:08 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Why in the world would you do this it took a simple system and turned it into a nightmare?
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Don"t know who the above 1 post poster is, but I like it alot. I use this all the time, and this is great.....thanks for the work!!!!! Smiley: yippee
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#17 May 27 2012 at 5:11 PM Rating: Decent
Hmm.. what happened to the posts which always had useful nuggets of info about the mob you were interested in, dont really need a pic lol and I know where the mob is, so i dont need a link for that either so what does the beastiary provide now that the posts are broken/missing, the posts made this site.
#18 May 27 2012 at 6:03 PM Rating: Excellent
Thanks acprog. New format is a marked improvement over the old. I'd take the "I liked the old format that could never be iterated upon" comments with a lick (not just a grain) of salt.
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acprog wrote:
The everquest.allakhazam.com site's menu's bestiary links now point to pages on that site rather than eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com. Let me know if you find anything broken.

Soonishly, redirects will be in place for all eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com links so any bookmarks/links/etc. will still work fine. Most stuff was already using pages over there so far as the back-end was concerned.

Unifying our EQ sites has been a goal for a while, and I've slowly worked in a change here and there when I had them time. Finally, I had some time to finish it up and I think we're about ready to move everything over during the next day or two. This should help stop going between subdomains and the headaches it causes on the back-end as well as helping the visually jarring aspects of the whole layout changing on page change. In all, this will actually make it easier to give new features to the EQ site, including better wiki integration for the old EQB pages.

Let me know if you find any bugs or anything.

Thanks!
~ACProg


I use the site a lot, so I'll be on the look out for any buggies. :)
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Don't take any guff from this rabble, ACProg. Yther and missjackie are well-known troublemakers and ne'er-do-wells.
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Don't take any guff from this rabble, ACProg. Yther and missjackie are well-known troublemakers and ne'er-do-wells.


Awww, don't pick on Yther. He's super helpful. Me.. I am a troublemaker... *teeeheheheh* :)
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Move the search interface back to the left hand side like it was before, discrete and not in your face at the top, and put all of the mobs back on 1 page instead of splitting the list into 3-4 pages, more clicking is always a bad thing.
Screenshots at the top are a good thing, glad to see those stayed but that search function is just out of place where it is now, maybe drop it and just link to a separate page to clean up the list of zone mobs.
I use the Bestiary quite a bit, usually to read up on what just killed me.
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I've noticed some old links aren't working correctly: Example link: http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.html?id=33288 brings same link page saying:

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The document has moved here. (here link=http://everquest.allakhazam.com/search.html instead of the appropriate http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=33288 )
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Ended up killing this guy several times while camping othni pieces for alts. He can be camped from the zone in area. Clear the roamer at zone in, then the 2 guards at the door to the courtyard. For me, he popped every time up the ladder on top of the door that leads from zone in to courtyard. Looking at the door from the courtyard, he was to the left of the door. PH was a broodling and maybe a warrior.

Hits for around 2K+ max. Has about twice the hit points as the courtyard trash mobs. Killed him with my regular group (me=83SK/pet/cleric merc).

So far has dropped shield, hammer and several othni pieces.
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been running around looking for this... might someone give a specific or close enough location for this please.... thnx
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Aggressor is random in the zone in / courtyard area. Bloodfiend and Aggressor pop farily often in the courtyard, but can pop at the zone in and above it, and building to the North of the courtyard, although it's rarer for the Agressor to spawn outside of the courtyard, in my experience.

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Us Immune to Run Speed changes, Summons, and Slowable.

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He also flurries and enrages. =)
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Lost Tae Ew Hammer of Aggression
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Edited, Apr 28th 2009 7:59am by Yther
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Also, still haven't found a way to get the beastiary comments, maybe a tab on the zone pages (example at http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zstrat=683 but that links to http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zone=683 )

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