Server Firsts

[Theeper]

Anyone discovered a server or world 'first' packet?

I wonder if the first system even works anymore.

[John Adams]

Can you describe the client-side effect of a world "first" event? Does it just spit out some text or on-screen popup?

[Theeper]

It's been a long time, but all I can remember was a text popup and maybe a chat message.

[Theeper]

Actually now that I think if it, when you got a first or leveled to certain levels, it sent a screenshot of your character. Like /portrait yes used to work.

[Zewtastic]

You best bet to get a server first is to craft an item that is NOT A grade. Craft a B grade or C grade high level item, and even so highly unlikely to get a server first, and you might miss the pop up message anyway.

Much greater likelihood than purely from farming.

[img]http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh72 ... lykill.png[/img]

And an item discovery

[img]http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh72 ... ic/new.png[/img]

[img]http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh72 ... /first.png[/img]

[Xinux]

I was in Brotherhood of the spider in EQ.

[Zewtastic]

A number of them were in BotS in Vanguard. I have some names and pics.
I was in Tindi Losi which was constantly doing battle with BotS in EQ1, well until BotS got disbanded for bad play violations.

[Theeper]

Zing, do you have any 'first' packets? Also, do you know about any of the other vgplayers functionality? Did they remove the blogs and magelo and everything?

[Zewtastic]

I do not have any "firsts" packets, but I can try on my crafter using the process I outlined above.

The hooks to take a screenshot and update a players personal diary were either removed or deactivated. It was a source a extreme lag for players when it occurred ingame.

No idea about Magelo, was never part of Vanguard that I am aware of.

My own site was the only one I am aware of that allowed players to create their own profiles, and I got as much information as I could by scraping the vgplayers site, which was not much. Items only had a name, icon, and level I think.

[Theeper]

When I say magelo, I should have said magelo-like. vgplayers.com had the same functionaility along with your blog, firsts and screenshots/portraits. I wrote some scripts for a fansite called vanguardspheres.com that extracted item and guild data from it.

It was funny on the pvp server because we didn't know there were screenshots of your toon loaded to the servers every 5-10 levels when you dinged. So, there were some people exploiting an XP bug (tombstone bug IIRC) .. and you could see them doing it in the screenshots .. once SoE (or Vigil back then) made vgplayers.com live a few months after launch.