I figured I should start a thread to help keep track of the development of SoF. This can be used as a reference for what needs work, and who is working on what. I will try to keep this post updated as people update the thread with any progress or notes. Please try to keep posts in this thread for developer work only. All other SoF development discussion should be posted
here, or a new thread created for it. For reporting Bug in Secrets of Faydwer that are not already listed in this post, please post them in the
Secrets of Faydwer - Bug Reports thread.
Last Update - March 5th 2010
Top Priority Work:
1. AAs - All AAs in SoF are now fully functional. A temporary work-around is in place for the Improved/Advanced upgraded versions of AAs. For now, we just see double of the base AA for the upgraded version, but they work and can be purchased. This is because SOE consolidated those into single AAs. We just need to figure out how Live handles it to deal with training them higher instead. More notes in the post below.
Medium Priority Work:
Low Priority Work:
1. Adventure Leaderboard - The stats of the Adventure Leaderboard don't work properly yet. I think the correct opcode is set, but it just needs an encode and structure adjustment.
2. Levitate - Levitate seems to cause PCs and NPCs to hop if it was cast prior to you zoning in. Levitate is now supposed to go in the spawn struct as "2" in the flymode field instead of from a separate appearance packet like Titanium uses.
3. Animation - Animations such as sitting, crouching, death do not show up if someone zones in after the animation was already used. This is because of the new StandStance field in the spawn struct for SoF being hard set to 0x64, which is standing. We need to set it to put the actual animation being used in that field instead of forcing it to standing.
4. Inspect Notes - Inspect works, but the player notes in the inspect window do not work for SoF clients yet. I think this may need to be set in the player profile now or something.
Database and Source Code Changes that will be needed at some point:
1. AA Table - The alt_vars table may need further adjustments to allow it to be fully functional for both clients and their differences.
Other Issues:
1. The SoF client seems to have a few crash issues. No real details at this time on what causes crashes, but it is still a bit less stable than the Titanium client is.
New Systems to SoF that did not exist in Titanium:
1. Blocked Buffs - This should be pretty straight forward to get going at some point.
2. Auras - These appear to mostly work like Songs, but also have an aura NPC that can zone with characters.
3. Fellowships - The NPC class that gives fellowships is Class 69. The window opens up for the client already, but nothing is actually coded for handling them yet.
4. Pirate Combat - No Information
5. New Power Source Equipment Slot - Power Source Slot added and stats from it are functional, but it does not yet work the same way it does on Live.
6. Guild Banners - Banners are spawned as NPCs and are a global race. Custom Guild Banner info should be in the spawn structure somewhere.
7. Destructible Objects - No Information
8. Player Traps - These are spawned as new global NPC races. Most likely, they are just quest scripts in the default.pl to control the trap actions.
9. Spheres of Influence - No Information
10. New Skills - Unsure how many new skills there are in SoF, but live has Triple Attack as a new skill (skill 76). Not sure how to add these to work with both SoF and Titanium.
11. Respawn Window - Have started work to getting this added. It isn't functional yet, but getting there.
12. New Item Stats - All possible item stats now show up on items when a value is set in the database. The new SoF stats still need to be coded into the server to actually be used. KLS Added Backstab Damage, but the others still need to be coded.
Recently Resolved Issues:
1. Consumption - Food and Drink consumption is now working and is now consumed at the correct rate.
2. Trading (to NPC or PC) - This is now working.
3. Objects - Interacting with objects (tradeskill, aug pools, etc) is now working.
4. Interrupts - Spell interrupt is now functional.
5. Groups - Grouping should now be fully functional.
6. Banking - Banking is now fully functional including the 8 new bank slots, shared bank and slots within bags in any of those slots. This also resolved a fairly major crash related to banking.
7. Clickies - Right Click item effects now seem to be fully functional, including observing recast delays when they apply as well as using item charges when they apply.
8. Drakkin Corpses - Drakkin and Froglok corpses are now showing up properly after zonedumps (thanks Derision!)
9. Tasks - The Task system is now fully functional (thanks Derision!)
10. Pet Buff Window - Pet buff window is now fully functional (thanks Derision!)
11. Animations - Animations are now fully functional (thanks Derision!)
12. Tracking - Tracking is now fully functional (thanks Derision!)
13. Skill Points - Skill training points now report properly (thanks Derision!)
14. /who - The /who command is now fully functional (thanks Derision!)
15. Item Links - Item Links are now fully functional, including Item Links from command outputs.
16. Item Augments - Item Augments are now fully functional in every way (HUGE thanks to Derision!)
17. Money Trading - Traded money now updates without having to zone (thanks Derision)
18. Bazaar - Bazaar trading is now fully functional (thanks Derision!)
19. Loot Slots - Looting corpses with multiple items will now always loot the correct item
20. Tribute - The Tribute system for personal tributes is now fully functional (thanks Derision!)
21. Rest System - After 30 seconds of being out of combat, extra regen kicks in to regenerate characters mana/hp/end at faster speeds. (completely new system - thanks Derision and drakelord!)
22. Books - Books are now functional (thanks Derision!)
23. Attunable Items - Attunable items now function properly in SoF (thanks realityincarnate!)
24. Spell Interrupts - Spell Interrupts and Fizzles no longer cause abnormally long refresh times on the spells being cast.
25. Stun - Melee stun/bash no longer causes unintended spinning
26. Spawn Structure - All of the currently desired fields should now be identified (thanks for the help, Shendare!)
27. Drakkin Specific Features - All Drakkin Related fields (Heritage, Tattoo, and Details) are now fully functional for NPCs and PCs.
28. Potion Belt - Potion Belt seems to function perfectly fine now.
29. /bug - /bug is now functional (thanks KLS!). Verified that it works in SoF with no modifications required.
30. /petition - The /petition command in SoF has changed to now open a browser to the SOE support site. Apparently /guidehelp has replaced /petition and functions in exactly the same way.
31. Chat Channels - Chat Channels and Mail are now fully functional in SoF with the addition of the new UCS (Thanks Derision!!!)
32. Item Stats - The item table now contains all of the fields for SoF including Heroic Resists which aren't used on Live but are built into the client. All stats now show up on items if a value is set, but no code is in yet for the server to actually use the new stats.
33. Tradeskill Combines - Tradeskill combines now work in tradeskill containers within your inventory like medicine bag or warrior epic 1.0 sword combing/split.
34. Recast Count-Down - The recast count-down on clicky items with recast delays no longer leaves items greyed out all of the time. This feature is available in Titanium as well, but doesn't work for Titanium yet either, so I am marking this off of the SoF specific issues list. Though, it would be really nice to see this get added at some point.
35. Raids - Raids are now functional in SoF (Thanks KLS!)
36. Death Disconnects - Dying in the same zone you are bound in no longer causes you to be disconnected (Thanks KLS!)
37. Guild Management Tool - The guild management now shows members and member notes and should be as functional as the one in the Titanium client (Thanks Derision!)
38. Stamina/Endurance - Live now sends endurance update packets and SoF probably does as well, so it wouldn't hurt to add an update packet for SoF. For now, endurance seems ok in SoF though.
39. Azone2 - Now functional for the EQGv4 zone files, so every SoF zone is now usable, though watermaps still do not work for EQGv3 or EQGv4 zone files yet (Thanks Derision!!!)
40. Max Level 75 - A work-around for level 76+ was added for SoF to correct HP/Mana/End by sending a tribute packet that sends what the stats should be (Thanks KLS/Secrets!)
41. Inspect - Inspecting SoF clients is now functional. The only functionality it is still lacking is the ability to set a note in SoF client inspect windows.
42. Clicky Checks - Items with click effects now have the proper checks for all clients to verify that they are allowed to be used.
Attaining Secrets of Faydwer:
Everquest: Secrets of Faydwer can currently be purchased from
www.newegg.com for $19.99 with free shipping.
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There are also various other sites that have SoF for sale at lower prices than Newegg.
This post will be updated again regularly with current development status.