Changing Item link text in game

lucky · Post by **lucky** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:49 pm

I noticed people changing the text of items linked in game, I was wondering how they were doing it. Someone said MQ but Im unsure, any help would be appreciated. Id like to know how to do it.

bob_the_builder · Post by **bob_the_builder** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:08 pm

It's not done through MQ if that helps any.

But check over on some of the class boards, they have most of the information on what to do. But to make a quick reply

To make a link that doesn't link to anything:
45 random numbers/letters hereWHATEVER

I'm sure you can figure out the rest or check on a class specific board somewere, but no, this is not a function of MQ.

Bob

omg_i_suck · Post by **omg_i_suck** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:25 pm

which square is that, i went to my kep map and there are about 40 of those

|| Napolion || · Post by **|| Napolion ||** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:08 pm

The windblade has this for link

Code: Select all

0025979-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001D752395EWindblade

If you change the name it still show the windblade when you click on it.
Nothing at all to do with MQ.

omg_i_suck · Post by **omg_i_suck** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:38 pm

ok this is what im doing, im puting a square in there then i used the numbers for windblade, but when i save and zone. then look at my socials I see a ! instead of a square. but in wordpad the square is there.

omg_i_suck · Post by **omg_i_suck** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:05 am

Well i got the ! out of there, but i still cant get it to work..

|| Napolion || · Post by **|| Napolion ||** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:48 am

If you read the EULA for EQ then you will notest that what you are doing are wrong.
The link are all serverside (if you dont have the item) and will be logged.

Microsoft Wrodpad and ANCII standard are not equal so somthing in EQ shows up as a ! might show up as in wordpad.

Valerian · Post by **Valerian** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:41 am

|| Napolion || wrote:Microsoft Wrodpad and ANCII standard are not equal so somthing in EQ shows up as a ! might show up as in wordpad.

Get it right... whichever you were trying to get.

ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII deals with numerical codes for text and control codes, for the most part.

ANSI = American National Standards Institute. They deal with a lot of other things, such as escape sequences and other miscellaneous junk. Raw text formatting stuff, mostly outdated, and who knows what else.

Either way, ASCII or ANSI have nothing to do with the little box in wordpad. That is all dealing with different fonts. The little box is a "standard" way to show a non-printing character. Most fonts have many different characters that print as the little box, because their creators were too lazy or stupid to make a printable character for all the possible ASCII codes. Just because it looks like a little box, doesn't mean it's the SAME little box.

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Valerian
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

tbigg · Post by **tbigg** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:29 am

The square is a Ctrl-R.

I also suggest you use the search feature of this site, as there have been several threads discussing links here.

vzmule · Post by **vzmule** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:17 am

It's a checksum.

oneoneone · Post by **oneoneone** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:41 pm

http://www.thesteelwarrior.org/forum/sh ... ght=sekrit

explains it all.