Cleaning databases for old/deprecated and expired quests should never be a
developers choice specifically. This should be done by admins, not developers,
through the use of the already existing paramters found in the worldserver config :
CleanCharacterDB / PersistentCharacterCleanFlags
An adjustment to the respective questloader prepared statement has been done to
accomodate for the earlier change (by not loading such quests into memory at all).
Documentation for how this cleanup-procedures work already exists in the core :
doc/CharacterDBCleanup.txt.
Most of the cores queries have been converted to prepared statements now. If your code contains queries, please either use the exiting or implement new statements.
The only exclusions are one-time queries (e.g. for core startup) and queries that can't be prepared due to limitations.
- Send more proper hitinfo values in SMSG_ATTACKERSTATEUPDATE (still lot of research todo)
- Some renaming and commenting
- Minor cleanup in Player::UpdateZone
- Remove mysterious restriction in visibilityhelper for gameobjects
- Some cleanup in CheckAreaExploreAndOutdoor() and GridDefines.h
- Set nocreate for cells visited in Map::VisitNearbyCellsOf
- Implement UNIT_FIELD_HOVERHEIGHT (requires DB data). This field, sent in update object packet, will determine the height at which a creature hovers if it has movementflag_hover applied. Note that hovering will now update the server-sided z-coordinate by the value of this field, and that all subsequent positional updates to the client will need to send z coordinate MINUS the hover height offset, or the hoverheight will be visually doubled client side.
- Correct our usage of movementflag_flying, movementflag_can_fly, movementflag_hover and movementflag_disable_gravity (previously levitate), and how they relate to InhabitType in the database. This fixes "flying creatures on steroids" bug (wings flapping too fast), and potentially a lot of visual issues in AI scripts. Note that a lot of scripts still set wrong movementflags, these need to be fixed on a case by case basis.
- Send correct packets for SPELL_AURA_FEATHER_FALL, SPELL_AURA_WATER_WALK and SPELL_AURA_HOVER apply/unapply.
- Send correct packet contents for movement update in Unit::SetSpeed.
- Misc. cleanup in affected scripts.
Kandera