Vladick

Hi there, Has anyone been able to implement custom death messages on a SS server? Whenever someone is killed, I'd like a global message to appear that says, "Variable_victim was killed by variable_player with a variable_weapon from variable_m(meters). I have seen plenty of options for implementation on the web and they are all somewhat different. I have learned enough to know by now that SS does things a bit differently. I also see in the epochconfig.sqf the following code: //Customize Death Messages //Enables global chat messaging of player deaths. (Also requires enableRadio true;?) (Default: false) DZE_DeathMsgGlobal = false; //Enables side chat messaging of player deaths. (Also requires enableRadio true;?) (Default: false) DZE_DeathMsgSide = false; //Enables global title text messaging of player deaths. (Default: false) DZE_DeathMsgTitleText = false; And this: //disable radio messages to be heard and shown in the left lower corner of the screen enableRadio false; But am skeptical that changing these to true will do what I want it to do. I have not tried it yet. Anyone have this working on their server and want to share the solution? Thanks! Vladick

Hi there, Has anyone been able to implement custom death messages on a SS server? Whenever someone is killed, I'd like a global message to appear that says, "Variable_victim was killed by variable_player with a variable_weapon from variable_m(meters). I have seen plenty of options for implementation on the web and they are all somewhat different. I have learned enough to know by now that SS does things a bit differently. I also see in the epochconfig.sqf the following code: //Customize Death Messages //Enables global chat messaging of player deaths. (Also requires enableRadio true;?) (Default: false) DZE_DeathMsgGlobal = false; //Enables side chat messaging of player deaths. (Also requires enableRadio true;?) (Default: false) DZE_DeathMsgSide = false; //Enables global title text messaging of player deaths. (Default: false) DZE_DeathMsgTitleText = false; And this: //disable radio messages to be heard and shown in the left lower corner of the screen enableRadio false; But am skeptical that changing these to true will do what I want it to do. I have not tried it yet. Anyone have this working on their server and want to share the solution? Thanks! Vladick

Hi Steven, Hmmm... Those are the files I used actually and I set it up using the server pbo as instructed. I was working great except for the traders issue. I may try it again and see if I get different results. Thanks! Vladick

Hi Steven, Hmmm... Those are the files I used actually and I set it up using the server pbo as instructed. I was working great except for the traders issue. I may try it again and see if I get different results. Thanks! Vladick

Hey Zombiegirl, I added the Wicked AI missions to my server (server pbo) last night and it worked great. Until I noticed that some of the trader menus would not come up after I added it. It was only some of the traders and not all. Trader city Bash seemed to work fine but the hero and stary traders would not show their menus when moused over. I restarted the server again and got the same issue. I rolled back to the previous server pbo (without WAI) and all the traders worked. One thing to consider is that I was running WAI at the same time as the Survival Servers Missions that I payed for and are set up differently in the config. It was pretty cool because I had four missions going at once on the map! But do you think that had something to do with it? I really like the WAI but I can't implement it at the cost of the trader menus. Any ideas? BTW, the link in the OP is dead. Thanks! Vladick

Hey Zombiegirl, I added the Wicked AI missions to my server (server pbo) last night and it worked great. Until I noticed that some of the trader menus would not come up after I added it. It was only some of the traders and not all. Trader city Bash seemed to work fine but the hero and stary traders would not show their menus when moused over. I restarted the server again and got the same issue. I rolled back to the previous server pbo (without WAI) and all the traders worked. One thing to consider is that I was running WAI at the same time as the Survival Servers Missions that I payed for and are set up differently in the config. It was pretty cool because I had four missions going at once on the map! But do you think that had something to do with it? I really like the WAI but I can't implement it at the cost of the trader menus. Any ideas? BTW, the link in the OP is dead. Thanks! Vladick

Hey guys, My server is back up. I restarted it last night and it successfully authenticated and loaded people into the game. I should have tried that before I posted on the forum AND sent in a trouble ticket. Oh well. Hope you get yours back up soon twobeers! Vladick

Hey guys, My server is back up. I restarted it last night and it successfully authenticated and loaded people into the game. I should have tried that before I posted on the forum AND sent in a trouble ticket. Oh well. Hope you get yours back up soon twobeers! Vladick

Hi there... My server has been running fine for the past couple of weeks and then all of a sudden nobody can join. Everyone get's stuck on "Waiting for Server to Start Authentication' and then it times out and they get kicked back to the lobby. This just started Sunday evening and I have not made any changes to the mission or server pbo files today. Anyone else having this issue? Thanks! Vladick

Hi there... My server has been running fine for the past couple of weeks and then all of a sudden nobody can join. Everyone get's stuck on "Waiting for Server to Start Authentication' and then it times out and they get kicked back to the lobby. This just started Sunday evening and I have not made any changes to the mission or server pbo files today. Anyone else having this issue? Thanks! Vladick

I was having some trouble yesterday myself when I tried to add a couple of helis to the traders. I wanted to add a couple of armed helis and a couple of unarmed helis and I wanted them to show up in different traders; at the Hero trader for the armed helis and the Airplane dealer at NWAF for the unarmed ones. I set the TID (Trader Menu ID) to 493 for the armed and 512 for the unarmed, but 512 was the wrong TID for the NWAF Ariplane dealer so they didn't show up there. Not sure where 512 shows up, but I then figured out that it should be 519 for the NWAF Airplane dealer. This may not be why yours are not showing up but I thought I would mention it. Thanks! Vladick

I was having some trouble yesterday myself when I tried to add a couple of helis to the traders. I wanted to add a couple of armed helis and a couple of unarmed helis and I wanted them to show up in different traders; at the Hero trader for the armed helis and the Airplane dealer at NWAF for the unarmed ones. I set the TID (Trader Menu ID) to 493 for the armed and 512 for the unarmed, but 512 was the wrong TID for the NWAF Ariplane dealer so they didn't show up there. Not sure where 512 shows up, but I then figured out that it should be 519 for the NWAF Airplane dealer. This may not be why yours are not showing up but I thought I would mention it. Thanks! Vladick

@Cole24 Well, you only had to post the link twice for me to actually watch the entire video, lol... My mistake was thinking all I had to do was add the new heli to the Trader_items when, come to find out in the second half of the video, you also have to add it to the Traders_data. Thanks for the help. I got it now. @CTech So make sure you add the new item to both the Trader_items AND the Traders_data lists in the DB.

@Cole24 Well, you only had to post the link twice for me to actually watch the entire video, lol... My mistake was thinking all I had to do was add the new heli to the Trader_items when, come to find out in the second half of the video, you also have to add it to the Traders_data. Thanks for the help. I got it now. @CTech So make sure you add the new item to both the Trader_items AND the Traders_data lists in the DB.

Okay so, I've updated the stock of all of my items in my inventory. But now I want to add that cool Heli (pook_H13_medevac_INS, and maybe all of the pook family) to the Hero Trader to allow players to purchase it. How do I go about doing that? I feel like I should be able to do it in the Epoch Traders Admin tool but I can't figure it out at all. Any idea? Thanks! Vladick

Okay so, I've updated the stock of all of my items in my inventory. But now I want to add that cool Heli (pook_H13_medevac_INS, and maybe all of the pook family) to the Hero Trader to allow players to purchase it. How do I go about doing that? I feel like I should be able to do it in the Epoch Traders Admin tool but I can't figure it out at all. Any idea? Thanks! Vladick

It's set to ENABLED so that's good to go, but when I change the number from 10 to whatever it gives me the following error message: One or more errors have occured while processing your request: The following query has failed: "DROP EVENT 'updateStockDaily';" My SQL said: #1539 - Unknown event 'updateStockDaily' Ever seen that one before? Thanks! Vladick

It's set to ENABLED so that's good to go, but when I change the number from 10 to whatever it gives me the following error message: One or more errors have occured while processing your request: The following query has failed: "DROP EVENT 'updateStockDaily';" My SQL said: #1539 - Unknown event 'updateStockDaily' Ever seen that one before? Thanks! Vladick

Actually yeah, under events, it has the following query, set to run daily: UPDATE `traders_data` SET qty=10 WHERE qty=0 AND afile<>'trade_any_vehicle' AND afile<>'trade_any_boat' But my out of stock notice continued for days after it started and it didn't stop until I ran Cole's query. Anyone have an idea about that? Thanks! Vladick

Actually yeah, under events, it has the following query, set to run daily: UPDATE `traders_data` SET qty=10 WHERE qty=0 AND afile<>'trade_any_vehicle' AND afile<>'trade_any_boat' But my out of stock notice continued for days after it started and it didn't stop until I ran Cole's query. Anyone have an idea about that? Thanks! Vladick

Oh cool. I can do this from work. It says 1208 rows were affected. Still need to restart my server though but people are on it. Thanks again! Vladick

Oh cool. I can do this from work. It says 1208 rows were affected. Still need to restart my server though but people are on it. Thanks again! Vladick

Thanks Cole! I will give it a try and let you know how it goes. BTW, what program do you use to edit the database, just so I am doing it exactly as you are? Thanks! Vladick

Thanks Cole! I will give it a try and let you know how it goes. BTW, what program do you use to edit the database, just so I am doing it exactly as you are? Thanks! Vladick

Anyone know if there is a tutorial or directions for using the Epoch Traders Admin Tool on the server Cpanel? It's not that intuitive (or I'm not that smart) and I'd like to do a couple of things like: Add new helis and some other stuff to the traders Add stock to existing items in the trader menu Some players have been getting the message, "insufficient stock" when trying to purchase items that were previously available to be purchased. Anyone know about this stuff? Thanks! Vladick