EQ2 Item discoveries in transission?

I've noticed recent item discoveries for majority of SOE run servers have changed to a new world_list, but not all servers are included in this.  Also, previously discovered items don't seem to have been changed to this new format.  Can we expect all servers to soon be following the new format, and all previous items to be changed?

Example:

census.daybreakgames.com/xml/get/eq2/ite...:show=_extended

 

That's a very good question. I've seen the character data in multiple formats at the same time since it's tough to re-export older characters that haven't logged in lately. But I don't remember seeing the item data in multiple formats before. Here's the data for the item elzyky linked:

Code:

<_extended>
<discovered charid="442381987262" id="103" timestamp="1333264033">
<from_100 charid="429497106663" timestamp="1332270477"/>
<from_505 charid="2168960837210" timestamp="1333264218"/>
<from_311 charid="1335735357086" timestamp="1333264623"/>
<from_312 charid="1340031120347" timestamp="1333267103"/>
<world_list>
<world charid="442381987262" id="103" timestamp="1333264033"/>
<world charid="1297081041931" id="302" timestamp="1333264349"/>
<world charid="1722282121735" id="401" timestamp="1333264164"/>
<world charid="876174180701" id="303" timestamp="1333264167"/>
<world charid="884763709978" id="206" timestamp="1333264185"/>
<world charid="2168960837210" id="505" timestamp="1333264218"/>
<world charid="463856815183" id="108" timestamp="1333264287"/>
<world charid="446677282448" id="104" timestamp="1333264398"/>
<world charid="880469272986" id="202" timestamp="1333264416"/>
<world charid="438087742721" id="105" timestamp="1333264608"/>
<world charid="1335735357086" id="311" timestamp="1333264623"/>
<world charid="459561629661" id="101" timestamp="1333264855"/>
<world charid="1292785563896" id="301" timestamp="1333264827"/>
<world charid="515398184372" id="120" timestamp="1333265435"/>
<world charid="468152725489" id="203" timestamp="1333266674"/>
<world charid="1340031120347" id="312" timestamp="1333267103"/>
</world_list>
<from_401 charid="1722282121735" timestamp="1333264164"/>
</discovered>
</_extended>

As you can see, there are discoveries listed in world_list that aren't contained in the regular from_### nodes. That I can understand if new discoveries aren't being listed in the old format. But there are items out there with discoveries in the from_### nodes that don't have a world_list node at all. We can't really migrate to the new format if the new format isn't included on all the items.

Any chance of getting a new export of the items with the new and old format?

 

I thought they had settled on exporting data in both formats, to accomodate different needs?

 

Yeah...for some reason, we aren't getting the data from all servers.  We are working on it.

-dan

 

Ok, now I'm confused.  I see two issues with the item data right now:

1. Some items have data in the from_### format but none in the world_list data.  
2. Some items have more discoveries listed in the world_list section than they do in the from_### section.

If the issue was not getting data from all servers, wouldn't that just cause discovery data to be missing for those servers?  The data should still be there in both formats for the servers that you are getting data from, right?  That's not the case though. 

 

Any update on this?  The new items are starting to come in from GU63 and their discovery data doesn't have the information in both formats either.

Has the from_### format possibly been turned off and any new discovery data will come in with the new format?

Update: I finally looked around a bit and refreshed my memory (and re-read the last post from Lantis) and remembered that the format that was agreed upon was to have the data listed both ways.  That is obviously NOT what is happening today.  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Thanks,

 

Argh.  Looking....

-dan

 

My bad.  I didn't think this through all the way.

When we changed the way that we exported from the game, it changed from the old way to the new.  The closest thing we have to "both" formats is that we have the previous discoveries in the old format, but we are planning on cleaning those out.

I apologize, but you will need to update your code to pull this data in the new format.

Not all of it is in the database yet, we will have to initiate a full export from the game servers.  That should happen tomorrow after the international servers have been updated to GU63.

-dan