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1. How would we make this into a repeatable quest?

Simple, just set the repeatable property when you hand out the questholder to true

GIVE/<questholder/name/A Beggars Treasure/notestring/Use the code book found inside the tunnel to navigate the maze and find the treasure/objective1/Complete the maze/objective2/Find the treasure/autoreward/true/repeatable/true




2. How can we set a minimum delay time to repeat the quest (make the quest repeatable once every x minutes)?

By default, quests are repeatable, so if you were to leave out the repeatable/true at the beginning, it would be repeatable anyway. All of the properties that are used in the line above, such as name, repeatable, autoreward, notestring objective1 are all properties that you can view in the [props gump of the questholder. To make the quest repeatable after a period of time, you would do this?

GIVE/<questholder/name/A Beggars Treasure/notestring/Use the code book found inside the tunnel to navigate the maze and find the treasure/objective1/Complete the maze/objective2/Find the treasure/autoreward/true/nextrepeatable/06:00

The time at the end is specified in hours and minutes, so in this case the player would have to wait 6 hours before he can do the quest again. Alternatively, if you wanted the player to only wait a few minutes, you would enter the time as 00:12 (for 12 minutes). The player can then view when the quest is next available by opening his Quests gump, by clicking the Quests button on his/her paperdoll.




3. If I have a custom playermobile property such as ExperiencePoints, how can I have the quest add or subtract from that value? If the custom field is an enum, how can I set the value of the custom field?

Custom properties work just the same as default ones, (If its in the [props gump, you can use it!) On my shard we have a custom prop on playermobiles called ?LeaveHaven.? It can be either true or false, if I wanted to change it via an xmlquestnpc, I would put this line in the Action field of the line you want it to be triggered on?

SETONTRIGMOB/LeaveHaven/True

SETONTRIGMOB is a command used to set properties on the ?TRIGMOB? or the player that is currently using the Quest NPC. LeaveHaven is the property I want changed, and I want it changed to ?True?

For enums, as far as I know the only difference with them is when you are LOOKING for the value if contains (Using one of the GET commands). Setting these properties is the same, eg, I have Custom races on my shard?

SETONTRIGMOB/Race/Orc

The difference comes in when you are looking for a value, for instance if I wanted to make the line only trigger if the player was an Orc. In the Condition field it would look like this?

GETONTRIGMOB,Race=#Orc

Race is the enum property I am using, and when I want to retrieve info from an enum I add in a # before the property I am using. Note this is only done when using one of the GET series of keywords (Arte may correct me on this ).





4. Is there a way to have the questnpc respond to ANY words spoken by the player? (i.e., instead of checking for "What seems to be the matter" it would respond to ANY words the player said).

To have an NPC respond to anything you say, you would use a wildcard such as * in the keywords section. So just having * in the keywords section means that the NPC will respond to anything you say (as long as the conditions in triggeroncarried and the CONDITION fields are met).





5. It would be interesting to go into more variations on the CONDITIONS field. The example checking for gold is good, but maybe also provide some examples on other conditions that can be set.

Anything that you find in the triggering player/npc?s property gump, you can check for, as well as any items the player is carrying

GETONTRIGMOB,hits>100 (hits greater than)
GETONTRIGMOB,Classe=#Mage
GETONTRIGMOB,str!99 (strength not equal to)
GETONCARRIED,,katana,hue=123 (Does he have a katana in his pack with that hue?)
GETONCARRIED,Vladimir?s Katana,katana,visible=true (Does he have a katana in his pack called ?Vladimir?s Katana? and is it visible?)

You can also have multiple conditions

GETONTRIGMOB,classe=#Hunter & GETONCARRIED,,katana,hue=123 (Is player a hunter AND does he have a katana with a hue of 123)

GETONTRIGMOB,Classe=#Hunter | GETONTRIGMOB,Classe=#Mage (Is the player a Hunter OR a Mage)

The best way to learn about this kinda stuff is to search through the xmlspawner2.txt file you should have received when you downloaded xmlspawner.





6. For that matter, is there a master list somewhere of all of the keywords that can be used in the CONDITIONS and ACTIONS field?

As above? xmlspawner2.txt is your friend 

For the action field you can use things like?

SETONTRIGMOB/name/Vladimir
SETONTRIGMOB/str/INC,4 (Increase players str by 4)

Best thing to do is have a look through that file and find out what all the keywords do, SETONTHIS SETONNEARBY (we still want a GETONNEARBY) SETONPARENT etc.





7. In the example, if the player doesn't give the NPC any gold, is he still able to do the quest at a later date? What is it that identifies whether or not the player has done this quest, and where is it set and where is it checked?

Yes the player can, the thing that stops a player repeating a quest, is the XmlQuestAttachment that the player receives when the quest book is deleted (For non-repeatable quests). You can view a players attachments with the command [getatt and targeting the player. In the NoTriggerOnCarried field, I did a check to see if the player had this attachment (ie had already done the quest). Arte may have to go into more detail if this is still unclear to you, as I?m still not 100% comfortable with attachments yet 





8. When taking the gold (or whatever is specified in TAKEBYTYPE) will XMLSpawner always default to searching both the pack and the bank? What if you want it to check for one or the other?

Small mistake on my part here, by default TAKEBYTYPE will NOT search a players bank, only his backpack. If you wanted to include the bank in this search you would do this?

TAKEBYTYPE,1,10,true/gold (The true is the key thing there)

I?m not sure how to do this the other way around (checking players bank and not his pack, but that might not really serve any purpose?)





9. How can we make the treasure chest only accessable by the player who has completed the quest?

TreasureMapChests (Different from TreasureChestLevels) have an owner property, whereby if a player other than the owner takes an item out of the chest, he/she becomes criminal. Other than that I don?t know of any ways to restrict access to chests :/ Maybe Arte can shed some light on this.




10. Is there a way to add multiple Actions to a single quest?

Yes, break up each part of with a ;
This example would do 2x GIVE & 1x SETONTRIGMOB

<Action>GIVE/sdfsdfsdfdsf/
;GIVE/sdfsdfsdf/
;SETONTRIGMOB/sdfsdfsdf/</Action>


11. How to spawn statics?
static,xxx 


12. How to equip items?
EQUIP/itemname/


13. Set the name of a item to have a differnt color other then yellow
apple/movable/false/STEALABLE/true/name<BASEFONT COLOR=#A335EE>apple<BASEFONT COLOR=#FFFFFF>


14. Set the HITS and stats on a monster
troll/name/Door Guardian/hitsmaxseed/1000/hits/1000/str/200



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[RandomName 
[RandomPrefix 

[allspells
[addatt xmlsockets 5
[addatt xmlsocketable

[add recipescroll # 

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