EverQuest II: Rise of Kunark - Weekly Dev Diaries, Tradeskills

Every week, we plan to bring you a set of journal entries from someone on the EverQuest II team. This week, we begin our series with the worlds of Emily "Domino" Taylor, a Game Designer who specifically works on tradeskills specifically in the upcoming Rise of Kunark expansion. She records her work for us.

Once the spreadsheet is complete -- which, for tailors, took well over a day's work -- then I run a perl script that reads in each line of the spreadsheet and spits out each recipe. There was an old script that my predecessor had used, but it didn't work for all recipe types so I had to modify it. I have taken only one perl training course, and that was about a year ago, so I am still pretty slow at that type of thing.

The recipe files are just created on my local machine, so I copy/paste them into the appropriate folder for that type of recipe and give them a quick look to make sure nothing too obvious is wrong. If I do spot something wrong -- which has happened quite often, even if it's a small thing like forgetting to enter the recipe level or marking something as a common when it's a rare -- then I go back to the spreadsheet, fix things up, and re-run the perl script.

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I was just wondering a quick question will thnere still be the rare opp to recieve a rare item while crafting I have been doing crafting and begiing to get addicted to it have a lvl 47 tailor a lvl 55 sage a lvl 50 provy a lvl 22 woodworker a lvl 27 alchy a lvl 34 weaponsmith and a lvl 32 armoer was just curious if rare itmes will be showing up more like when you are harvesting for the components to craft items.

Nutha ( 64 fury/ 55 sage)