Quests now correctly added to database

Some of you might have noticed that while the MobMap databases built yesterday were already quite well-stuffed with information about mobs, many quests were missing, as well as quest pickup and quest item drop information. The reason for all this was a nasty bug (one involving multithreading and several threads getting in each other's way, which pretty much is one of the nastiest class of bugs in existence) that prevented many of the new quests from being included in the database builds, and since that is a requirement for the quest pickup and quest item drop data to be included correctly, those were affected as well.

The bug has been fixed last night, no data was lost at any time, and the database that's online for download since a few hours does now include all known quests. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and I suggest everyone to download a fresh database copy (it's a good idea anyway to update your database frequently during the next days, as there's a whole lot of new data being added right now).
This entry was posted by Slarti on Friday, November 14. 2008 at 09:47. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog.

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  1. Johnsdk says:
    #1 2008-11-14 13:13 (Reply)

    I dont know where to write about errors, but I have one. Every time I start the mobmap updater, it tell me there is a new update, but when I reply yes to install, it just close the window. If I reply dont install, all functions is correct, and it MobMap tells me the newest version is installed (v. 3.03).
    Hov can I get that to be as intended?

    Other addons is Questhelper, Omen and GroupCalendar.

  2. Slartie says:
    #1.1 2008-11-14 18:28 (Reply)

    That's a specific bug with MobMapUpdater 1.82. You can get the newest version by starting the Updater explicitly with administrative rights or by manually starting "selfupdate.exe" in the MobMapUpdater directory.

  3. Johnsdk says:
    #1.1.1 2008-11-15 11:11 (Reply)

    Thanks, the problem is solved.

    John

  4. Johnsdk says:
    #1.1.2 2008-11-15 19:47 (Reply)

    Well, most functions it correct now, but..
    All data about what I have collected is gone, all stats is now zero, can I change it back, or must I live with it?
    Just about before yesterday, I have looted 144K stuff, now its 0.

  5. Mayra Chiachia says:
    #2 2008-11-14 15:07 (Reply)

    Where is alternative position option in v1.84?

  6. Mayra Chiachia says:
    #2.1 2008-11-14 15:16 (Reply)

    lol

    Sorry i found it.

    Gratz very nice addon!!!

  7. christian gloria says:
    #3 2008-11-15 07:25 (Reply)

    Every time I start mobmap it tell me addon not found.... I cant even update the database or it freezes...........HELP

  8. snoow says:
    #4 2008-11-16 02:18 (Reply)

    May I ask how often the database updates are made public?

    I'd be nice to see a bit higher frequency, as basically hourly there should be a massive influx of new position / drop dataz :)

  9. Slarti says:
    #4.1 2008-11-16 16:36 (Reply)

    Usually, I aim to build a new database every 2 hours. But the latest upload rush that started this weekend (we're talking about almost 100k uploads per day!) has been keeping the upload parser running all the time, and since the database builder isn't really designed to build in parallel while uploads are parsed the build frequency dropped as a result.

    I'm currently working on a solution to this problem though and hope to be able to build a database every few hours again soon, even when there's a lot of uploads.

  10. Vikesh says:
    #5 2008-11-16 10:02 (Reply)

    I have a problem: when i start Mobmab Updater even with Admin rights he say there is no mobmap addon an Database installed anyone know how ti fix that?


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