class/race restrictions

Grundy · #1 10-15-2006, 03:57 PM

does anyone know is there any way (maybe in the code?) to disable a bunch of the races (like... all of them except froglok and troll) and to change the classes that are available to each race? i know theres GM commands to change someones class and race but is there a way to set up the server so at creation every race is "locked" or "disabled" in some way so you cant even create a human and to disable shadow knights for trolls so when you select troll shadow knight is grey'd out the same way Bard, Cleric, Enchanter, etc.. are not available to trolls?

#2 10-15-2006, 04:00 PM

What you want to do is not able to be done, character creation is hard coded into the client.

You can disable certain combo's however they wont be greyed out it just wont let them finish creating (which will cause issues from people posting WTF!!)

You cant add diferent / new combo's because that would required editing the client and handing that out, which we dont support or recomend doing.

desolute · #3 10-15-2006, 10:32 PM

The only "work around" for this is to make race/class combinations you want unplayable load into a "blank" zone that has a single NPC explaining server info; ie: "Sorry your race is unplayable, delete and recreate. The following are excetable races..."

Then just have the ones you want to work, have starting zones set to real towns.

Grundy · #4 10-16-2006, 09:06 AM

thats dumb sony is stupid. hard coding FTL!!!

Ueguvil · #5 10-16-2006, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Grundy

thats dumb sony is stupid. hard coding FTL!!!

Yeah who'd have figured a company wouldn't want people messing around with their game? Screw them!

Dr Zauis · #6 10-16-2006, 04:47 PM

You could probably change the code so that anytime a persone selects some race/class OTHER than what you want. The server creates a default character. At least then they could read the motd to know what is available.

EDIT>>> That is. If the client receives some kind of generic instructions from the server after character creation. If not then it could still maybe be done it would take alot more coding when its probably going to take alot of reading the sources to figure something out in the first place.

Grundy · #7 10-18-2006, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Ueguvil

Yeah who'd have figured a company wouldn't want people messing around with their game? Screw them!

umm no... even for them it would be a good idea to NOT be hardcoded because if they ever decide to give more class options to other races (which HAS happened before) it would be a lot easier for them to do if it wasn't hard coded if there was a table somewhere that said if a race can be a certain class all they would have to do is change 1 value and be done with it instead of redoing that part of the code and then compiling again