Station H

This is a spoiler

Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:16:00 +0000

Haru and I have been working on this project in secret since March, and we're getting closer to release.

Did you know? NPC Dialog <ITEMLINK>

Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:22:00 +0000

i.e. (quoting from script docs)

If you're using a client from 2011-10-10aRagexe.exe onwards, you can also 
use automatic navigation and open URLs in browser by using some HTML-like
labels. For example:

    mes "go to [Hat Maker]izlude,131,148, to make hats";

Will make the [Hat Maker] text clickable in the client and start a navigation 
to that point.

    mes "You can Googlehttp://www.google.com/ anything";

Clicking Google will open the browser and point to Google website.

a week ago I was going thru the game client looking for some packet behavior and I stumbled by , which allows one to "link" to item descriptions, e.g.

mes "HIIII Im valk shield2115";

which becomes a blue "HIIII Im valk shield", which, upon clicked, opens the valkyrie shield (2115) item description window. I'm not aware of when this was implemented, I tested on 2013-12-23c.

Memory Slasher is in Town!

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:25:00 +0000

https://github.com/HerculesWS/Hercules/commit/142a8f463120274fd9915a8a3a604d27ce42c43d ...and another 19mb goes down. I'd like to use this entry to highlight a commit that might have passed unnoticed, this commit by haru reduced ~75kb per player instance and highly improved quest feature's efficiency, my latest tests demonstrate 2.3k player hercules consumes roughly 330mb of memory.

2014 ragefest -- because decent, courteous, respectful people are getting harder and harder to find.

Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:44:00 +0000

and here we are, off to my first "rathena staff have no shame" blog post of 2014.
Its hard for them to piss me off, as I hardly ever open anything rathena related (on a fair guess I'd say I've been to their forum some ~20 times since I was removed from it - November 24th, 2012), and it happens today I was online on IRC to hear a very annoying thing, which just further demonstrates they just can't move on, they don't have the balls to actually try to get better than us so they use tricks, they cheat, they take other peoples' work and claim as their own, and so on, there is no end to their debauchery.
and the worst is that so little people give a damn, failing to realise that people have limits, as soon as they get pissed enough they'll quit, leaving rAthena and its users with way less content and features.
So, I was, unfortunately, present on IRC to read this.

[23:34:59] lol...
[23:35:07] rA copied the episode list i made
[23:35:14] asked em to link back to hercules, no reply.
[23:35:19] figures~
[23:35:24] blasphemy
[23:35:49] http://rathena.org/board/topic/91277-ragnarok-online-rathena-another-dimension/

I'm not writing this entry for them, they have long shown to not be bound by any kind of moral values. I'm writing this for you, o ragnarok emu users, who still have to open your eyes and realise that while you're still getting your content and features while under rAthena, that it will not continue forever, given much of their content is taken from us, which in itself is not a problem as we're both open source with similar licenses it is open for the content to be used in such manner, however it is a problem that they can't be happy just taking it, they to be so bold to claim it as theirs while continuously harassing hercules and its staff, while I'm pretty much indestructible -- having being removed from rAthena, a project I contributed into more than all its other members combined, by a bunch of crooks, I still managed to move on and create Hercules given my stamina, while many others are not as indestructible as I am, and such actions can easily demotivate them, and make them go away and stop contributing, and this, is where you should open your eyes, and realise that as that is allowed to continue, you are bound to lose content and features, given most of the innovations and new features added to rathena past year were thanks to us, so this is how it can end up, either you start moving -- and by no means I'm calling for people to move over, talk to your repositories staff and convince them to get a pair, otherwise both you and them will end up losing valuable content and features, for they too will end up with little to none to copy from.

MonsterTalkTable only a patch away!

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:23:00 +0000

Following my entry about MonsterTalkTable still being available Neo has turned it into a possibility for everyone to use, by creating a patch to be used in the game client with his NEMO Patcher

Thanks Neo!

Item SQL DBs now always in sync with their counterparts.

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:19:00 +0000

As announced by Haruna

And if you're relying on the .sql scripts we provide... well, there are still good news for you! Outdated item_db.sql files are a thing of the past now: those scripts will get updated automatically after every commit by our HerculesWS API bot, exactly like the HPM Hooks!

It went live yesterday, so whenever the .conf item databases are modified the bot follows up with the .sql updates in a matter of seconds.

Character Bans

Sat, 16 Nov 2013 20:02:00 +0000

I stumbled by the packet that makes this feature possible yesterday, while doing some research (Thanks to Yommy), it is at least 5 years old, and enables the ability for individual characters to be temporarily banned as opposed to the whole account, as demonstrated in the image below.

The feature was commit today, it uses 2 commands:
- @charban
- @charunban
The logic is the same as the normal @ban, e.g. @charban 2mn Ind = 2-minute ban on the 'Ind' character.

Reminiscing: MonsterTalkTable

Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:52:00 +0000

While researching for the Character Ban Support (researching as in I was browsing the client) I stumbled by a feature I thought had been long removed, MonsterTalkTable loading, I then realised it had not been removed, only a restriction was imposed (which I think might be easily hexed away): the feature is only loaded on langtype 19.

Above you see very happy monsters in a august 2013 client, speaking .
This also re-enables loading of PetTalkTable and MonsterSkillInfo (I didn't confirm if either were still working; monstly sure MonsterSkillInfo isn't)

A Peek on Clans!

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:59:00 +0000

Data Provided by Yommy, "Made it Happen" by Haru.

HPM Hooking is out, daily digests are dead.

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:28:00 +0000

2 days ago we completed the Hercules Renewal Phase One on all major map-server files (date.h won't get it, pc_groups.h is the one left but it'll receive special attention later), which enabled us to do the HPM Hooks release today -- notes and all: http://herc.ws/board/topic/2399-hpm-hooking-now-available/

For those of you who noticed, the daily digestu thing I was writting survived only 2 days, rest in peace.