Issue with missions and scripts (lua) [Windows]

[PoPoWanObi]

Hello everyone. I seem to have an isolated issue that I have so far been unable to determine what is the cause of it.

I've followed the server setup guide for Windows, and set up a server on Windows Server 2019. Everything went smoothly, and the server compiled and runs without any errors.

However, I do have a major game-breaking issue that appears to be relevant to lua from what I can tell. When creating a brand new character, the player is unable to complete missions. [Edit: The player starts the game with the first mission active, even before talking to the Gate Captains] When speaking to the Windurst gate captains for example, it will start the quest "The Horutoto Ruins Experiment", and tell the player to go to the Orastery (which is correct), but upon speaking with Hakkuru. He will say his generic dialog and the mission does not proceed.

I've managed to get this step to "proceed" by using the command !setmissionstatus 1 2. The quest is then completable.

Then when the player tries to complete the next ranking mission, the guards do not give them a quest.

So far, none of the missions I've tried have worked, this is not limited just to the Windurst rank missions.

Quests appear to be working fine, I managed to get Trusts just fine.

However, there is another issue that is very noticeable. On my GM character, whenever I input a command, the first character of print messages is being cut off. For example:

If I use !speed 255 the message log is clipped. I'll attach photos below for reference.

I've also enabled the Raising Chocobos feature so I can see what's working, and when I use the !chocoboraising command the menu that pops up gets all jumbled. I have attached photos for that as well.

If theres anything you may think of that might cause this, or if there is something you would like to me to check/test, please let me know! Thanks so much.

P.s., these issues occur on all characters.

The server is built in the latest release (also tried debug to no avail).

This is also a fresh Windows Server 2019 install.

The source and LUA files are completely unmodified from the latest version on the repo.

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Update: I've managed to get the starting missions working by running the command !delmission on the characters after they were created. For some reason when the characters are created, the first rank mission is being added to the characters mission log, however no states are being set. I'm not sure what is causing the mission to be added to the characters, I've checked the SQL db table properties for char>missions blob and it's default to (NULL), however, whenever logging a character in, either freshly created, or existing, when resetting the mission blob back to (NULL) those starter missions are automatically being forced to "active" in the mission log.

I've created a temporary solution to my problem with the missions by adding a conditional check to see if the mission status is 0 for each of the 3 starting nations, and removing the mission accordingly, but obviously this is not intended.

My command prints, and other various prints are hit and miss regarding whether or not the full print message displays or is trimmed.

I'm open to suggestions or recommendations still at this point.

[AlexandreCA]

So it reassures me to see that I'm not the only one. All missions are bugged, I tried Sandoria and Windurst, and both don't want to work. It's very disturbing. This bug does not only appear on Windows but also on Ubuntu. I think the end of March update blew up all the NPCs. Now I guess we have to wait for someone to fix it. In any case, I understand that he follows the evolution of the client but if each time, it breaks everything, then we might as well devote ourselves to a very specific version. Like this one.

[PoPoWanObi]

I have a temporary fix in .lua if you're just trying to play solo or with friends; that will allow you to do all of the missions. I would not recommend it for a live server however, since it's just a quick hack with very minimal conditional checking, but it does work. From my testing I was able to initiate all mission 1-1 from all nations, and proceed through the rest of the missions, even after server restarts and character reconnects.

If you're interested in my temporary solution, here is what you need to do:

Edit \scripts\globals\player.lua

In the header, with the other require calls, add the following:

require('scripts/globals/missions')

Under the line [232 after require line]

player:setLocalVar('ZoneInTime', os.time())

Add in the following snippet

    -- temporary fix to missions
    if (player:getMissionStatus(player:getNation()) == 0 and 
        not player:hasCompletedMission(player:getNation(), 0) and
        not player:hasCompletedMission(player:getNation(), 1) and
        not player:hasCompletedMission(player:getNation(), 2)) then
        player:delMission(player:getNation(), 0)
        player:delMission(player:getNation(), 1)
        player:delMission(player:getNation(), 2)
        print(string.format('Removing mission from %s.', player:getName()))
    end
    ```

[AlexandreCA]

Thanks, but I'm going to wait for a correction patch for that. On the other hand, I just watched your video and I see interesting addons like the minimap, etc. What addons do you use?

[PoPoWanObi]

I currently use Ashita v4 with the following addons:

Click to expand

ahgo
allmaps
aspect
Balloon
blucheck
blumon
casper
chatfix
checker
cleancs
clock
config
craftmon
drawdistance
fastswap
filterless
fishaid
hideparty
hticks
HXUI
imguistyle
macrofix
mapdot
MinimapControl
Mipmap
nomad
nolock
noname
paranormal
petinfo
recast
renamer
tCrossbar
tHotbar
ttimers
hideconsole
targetlines
xicamera
zonename
zoom

Some of these are built into AshitaV4 and others can be found in their plugins section on their Discord.

[cocosolos]

For the missions, #5408 should fix that. I'm not sure what's going on with your display issue though, seems like it might be some kind of language/encoding issue. #5197 looks like the same issue, but doesn't look like there was any resolution.

[cocosolos]

I just made a fresh database using #5408 and created a character in Bastok and mission log looked fine and was able to start first mission. I would make sure you're doing a clean build of all targets. Any existing characters probably have bad mission data stored in the db already. If the missions field in the chars table is all 0s then it's incorrect and should be set to null and the map server will fix it.

[cocosolos]

Also if there's anything setting nation or Zilart missions to 0 that is incorrect. The "no mission" ID for those is 65535.

[PoPoWanObi]

I've gone ahead and made a recording showcasing the issue first hand. I've added quick-access to important parts in the video description, but left it unedited, apologize for the lengthy video for a simple issue. Hopefully this better explains the situation.

This is a fresh-fresh build on a brand new installation of Windows Server like I was saying and I followed the instructions carefully. The Windows installation is also up-to-date with all important updates.

The source is the latest version with pull request #5408 included.

I clean before every build just to be sure.

The mission blob in the database appears to be correct now from what I can tell; however, the missions are still borked for characters.

Here's the video: Video

[cocosolos]

Well I can tell your initial mission log is all 0s because of the way your log looks in game. Mission ID 0 is mission 1-1, that's why the delmission command didn't work, you were trying to remove mission ID 1 instead of 0. Chains of Promathia should be Ancient Flames Beckon and nation and Zilart should be empty. The only thing I can think of that would do that is this line that was removed from database.h. This is where the mission log is initialized. Notice the loop that sets logs 0-3 to 0xFFFF (65535) that's what makes the nation and Zilart log say no current mission, same with the 101 for CoP. It's easier to read the data if you display binary data as hex with this button up at the top:

Are you using the latest version of the retail client? Is your Windows server in English (I think there have been issues with different languages)? Something is setting your mission log to 0 after it's initialized and it shouldn't be doing that. It could also be related to your text issue. If you're using the latest retail client, have you tried loading without and plugins/addons?

[PoPoWanObi]

I am using the latest retail, just did a file check and it was indeed the latest.

The windows server is indeed set to English (United States).

I gave a plugin-free client a test, yesterday, but I will go ahead and give it another test for the sake of it.

Update: Plugin-free client is producing the same results.

[PoPoWanObi]

#5408 now appears to have fixed the mission issue, however, the language/encoding issue still remains. Since there's another discussion (#5197) with that as an issue, I will mark this one resolved. Thanks very much for your diligence in resolving the issue @cocosolos .