Duels on boat, all NPCs and players now show as duels...

by **Foxy** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:40 am

Was dueling on the boat Booty Bay to Ratchet, the duel was not finished but ended do to the new zone load...

After that all NPC's and players I killed showed as winning duels...

Just an FYI... Sure this is part of the on going target issue or something to that extent.

by **bsmorgan** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:24 pm

The duel started setting the flag that says friendlies are enemies...

The duel didn't finish so the flag wasn't cleared...

Why me? :mrgreen:

I will attempt to fix this in 2.4.2. Will anybody care if duels can't cross zones? In the mean time, finish what you started. Duel again when the boat lands (so the flag can get cleared)! "/console reloadui" will also work.

Regards,

Brad

by **PleegWat** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:33 pm

Isn't there an event you can hook that occurs when zoning, and turn off duel mode in there?

Or complain to blizz that the duel end event isn't sent if you zone.

by **Foxy** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:59 pm

it cleared when I logged... just now I have some data to clear out... not like I can duel NPCs :-D

by **bsmorgan** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:30 pm

If only it were that easy...

PvPLog doesn't use any of the duel events. It parses the chat log messages. When I was trying to figure out how it worked, I seem to remember that the reason it was done this way was that while there's a DUEL_REQUESTED event and a DUEL_FINISHED event, there's no DUEL_STARTED event. If you dismiss the duel requested box with a decline, there's no event associated with that. If you initiate the duel, then there's no DUEL_REQUESTED event.

I need to find a partner to do some experiments. I did most of the duel debugging with two level 1 characters. Getting them to a boat might be a challenge! I'm guessing that I can clear the isDuel flag when the player isn't in combat and at full health, a point in time that PvPLog already identifies.

I believe there is an event that fires when a player zones so that's another possibility. I don't currently register for that event. I'm researching away so expect 2.4.2 when I figure something out.

Regards,

Brad

by **bsmorgan** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:15 am

Fixed in 2.4.2 using the DUEL_* events. If anyone has problems with duels, please collect debug information as posted in the PvPLog 2.4.1 topic and post it here.

Regards,

Brad