Question about Ebon gate gems and various exclusions in gameobj-data.xml

[vyrshkana]

I've been working with the gameobj-data.xml file for several months now and just today nailed down syntax to add source categories for gems found in Gemstone - regional, quest, digging, merchant, etc.

One of the issues I've found is that there are a fairly large number that are excluded from the gem category and listed elsewhere as ebongate and/or valuable. There are also a fair number of normal, jarrable gems such as the talons and fangs from the Rift, and non jarrable items like petrified mammoth tusks from Icemule, which, while sellable at the gemshop, are listed in non-gem categories. I wanted to know if there is any mechanical reason for this (other than someone not wanting to, well, update it the way I'm currently doing it). I don't use ;sloot or ;loot-be-gone or ;gemhoarder (or any number of other scripts that might use such categories to do stuff), so I don't know if changing how these items are categorized will break them.

While the updates I'm working on are for my own personal use, I'd like it to be as useful as possible for others as I can make it.

Thanks!

Wee Sleepy Gnomette's player

[Gnomad]

Pretty sure that the gems category can be purified, can be orbs, etc., and non-gems cannot. But don't quote me on that.

[Luxelle]

Duskruin gems ... when they added them ... can not be purified, can't be sold in a sack to the gemshop, and I forget if they got fixed to go into gem jars or not.

Which category do they fall into in your work?

[vyrshkana]

Duskruin gems are like pure EG digging gems - no purification, no bulk selling, no jarring. (I say pure EG digging gems because some of the gems you find at EG digging are treasure drops in the Necropolis, and can be purified/jarred/bulk sold.)

They will be classified as gems, in a Duskruin digging subcategory. (I have lots of gem subcategories.) Omrii's volunteered to mod other scripts that my gameobj-data mods might impact; I just wanted to know if there were further reasons? Or maybe the reasoning behind sorting them the way they currently are to begin with.

[Omrii]

Haha, to be clear, I offered to modify the scripts to support Vyrshkana. If others adopt her work or extend it beyond what she's doing for herself, I would defer to the community as a whole.

--Omrii

[vyrshkana]

I'm hoping that any fixes will be simple.;)