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@ragan262:

Not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request but I've created an objective to craft 20 potions of Poison I and users don't seem to be making any progress - after crafting 4 they still show 20 needed in /q progress (even though I've updated the descriptions with %r and %t -- thanks again for that btw).

So I'm not sure if the crafting objective isn't recognizing the brews, or if maybe a new "BREW" objective type might be in order... Or whether I'm just borking up the config heheh..

Here's the config:

  objectives:
    '0':
      type: CRAFT
      description: Craft %r more Potions of Poison I (%t total)
      item: 373:8196
      amount: 20

(still using 0.6.3.4, will do the 0.7 update tomo)

@Corsicanman:

Another good solution is to use WorldGuard. It's an excellent plugin (right up there in my must-have list) and lets you change tons of flags for regions, like PVP, mob-spawning, creeper-explosions, other-explosions, vine-growth, lava-flow, fire-spread, etc etc. Great anti-griefing tool.

Ah ok I see.. Well as mentioned I don't have many quests made so far and I think I've gained a pretty decent understanding of how it works so I suppose I'm a fairly ideal guinneapig :)

Will get 0.7 installed some time today and report results.

PS - As far as I'm concerned, having no saves except manual saves is a feature, not a bug ;)

Ok, if 0.7 isn't 100% compatible with 0.6.3 quests then I presume I'll have to upgrade all my 0.6.3 quests to the new system eventually anyway, right? So might as well get that done now while I only have a dozen quests.

Are there any alpha-issues I should be aware of before taking that plunge?

Thanks!

@Corsicaman:

Just for troubleshooting's sake, try moving that NPC to an area where you know PVP is enabled and see if you can start the quest by slapping him in the face as usual. If you still can't start the quest then we can rule out PVP as the problem, but if you can start the quest then you know you need to look at what's handling your PVP-blocking. Either way you'll know which direction to move in. :)

@ragan262:

Yes that's correct, all my plugins are generally loaded before the worlds start being loaded. (Good catch, by the way! Never would have occurred to me)

That said, the loading order is generally not a problem - WorldGuard, for example, is one of the dozen or so multi-world plugins I run which also load before the worlds load and I've never encountered this problem before.

Is there a way to fix this on my end?

@ragan262:

Also, in case it helps, I just noticed these on startup in the console:

2013-05-30 23:32:51 [SEVERE] [Quester] Error occured when deserializing objective ID 0 in quest 'ExploringAnkhYaweh'.
2013-05-30 23:32:51 [SEVERE] [Quester] Error occured when deserializing objective ID 0 in quest 'TrackingPigmen'.

...using the config I pastebin'ed in my previous post

Thanks

@ragan262: I have indeed read the documentation, although there were a few sections that were unclear. That said, in the context of the conversation and now that I have an understanding of quester in general, the documentation for %r and %t makes more sense.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Unfortunately there also seems to be a problem, one which I'm hoping is just an error on my part somehow but might be an issue with the dev version: I can't seem to get Quester to retain any Location objectives through a restart. I type:

/q select 3
/q toggle
/q objective add loc here 6
/q toggle
/q info

...and everything looks right, the location objective is there in the Objectives section. I can stop the server and the config file reflects the Location objective, however when the server starts back up and I do

/q info 3

...the objective is gone, the Objectives section is empty.

What's even more baffling, I can open up the config file and the Location objective is still specified in there! But for some reason it doesn't load the objective when it starts up. (worth mentioning, I did not type this into the config.. I added the objective with in-game commands and Quester saved it to the config file)

I have over 10 quests and all are functioning properly except that the two quests which have Location objectives both seem to drop the objective on startup.

Here's a pastbin of the two quests:

http://pastebin.com/g8kdRNvU

Does the config look right? If so, can you explain why it might not read the objectives on startup? I've ensured permissions are fine on the quests.yml file and the /Quester/ dir

Thanks in advance!

@ragan262:

Here's another feature request for upcoming releases: Finer granularity in /q progress

For example, if I create an objective to kill 20 pigzombies, and a user types /q progress, it tells them their current objective but does not actually tell them their progress.

A player who has killed 15 pigzombies is still told he needs to kill 20 pigzombies to complete the quest. Obviously this causes confusion and frustration among players.

I was trying to think of a convenient way to work this into the objective description... Maybe have two variables people could use in descriptions; $progNum (how many of the given mob you've killed, or deaths you've died, or items you've crafted, etc) and $objNum (how many of the given mobs/deaths/crafted items/etc that are required to complete the objective)

That way the objective description could be something like

Kill 20 PigZombies! Current progress: $progNum / $objNum

Maybe even add a third variable, $progLeft so the description could be even simpler:

Kill $progLeft more PigZombies!

Does this sound like something worth implementing?