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EQ Companion

A free log file parser for EverQuest, EverQuest II and Vanguard.

Serving gaming community since 2001.

October 11, 2011 Update:

LOTRO support under work
Rift support possible in the future

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Installing EQ Companion 3 Main window 4 Tabs 5 Menu items 6 Preferences-dialog 7 Map window 8 Features 9 EQ Companion theory

[edit] Introduction

• What is EQ Companion
• What is Log File

1. EverQuest log file
2. EverQuest II log file
3. Vanguard log file

• How does EQ Companion work
• System Requirements

1. On-line parsing using second networked computer
2. Off-line parsing
3. On-line parsing using single computer for EQ and EQ Companion

• Features
• Notes about Vanguard support

[edit] Installing EQ Companion

• Installing EQ Companion

1. Installing for the first time
2. Upgrading to newer version

[edit] Main window

• Title bar
• Menu bar
• Main work area
• Tab strip
• Status bar

[edit] Tabs

• Chat tabs

1. Tells
2. Says
3. Guild
4. Group
5. Shouts
6. OOC
7. Auctions
8. Raid
9. Chat
10. Chat channel common features

• Items

1. Looted items
2. Sold items
3. Item xref
4. New items
5. Database
6. A-Z & Misc

• Skills
• Factions

1. New
2. Totals
3. A-Z

• People

1. People
2. Attendance

• Fights

1. Fightdata
2. Log messages
3. Charts

• Export

1. HTML
2. Raw text

• Timers
• Tables

1. Triggers
2. Maps
3. Weapon procs
4. Attack types

• Stats

[edit] Menu items

• File-menu

1. Open log file… (Ctrl-O)
2. Open multiple log files…
3. Open active log file…
4. Open auto-load log file…
5. Save unsaved data…

• Edit-menu

1. Mark region
2. Export as tab-delimited file
3. Export as html
4. Copy region to clipboard

• Windows-menu
• Settings-menu

1. Trim column widths (Ctrl-W)
2. Reset MRU list
3. Suspend polling (F11)
4. Suspend /LOC (F12)
5. Preferences… (Ctrl-P)

• Timers-menu

1. Add timer
2. Add stopwatch
3. Add spawn timer (Ctrl-F11)
4. Restart next spawn (Ctrl-F12)
5. Restart spawns
6. Set spawn time
7. Delete all spawn timers
8. Delete buff timers
9. Save buff timers

• Help-menu

[edit] Preferences-dialog

• General preferences

1. Miscellaneous flags
2. When opening old log files
3. Error trapping
4. Buff timers
5. Data limits
6. Player info

• File locations

1. EverQuest directory
2. Log files directory
3. Map files directory
4. Auto-load log file
5. Filename template
6. Default URL
7. Item search engines

• Export options

1. Export format
2. Include in report
3. After html is generated
4. Fight details columns to include
5. Options
6. HTML table colors

• Audio visual

1. Warnings
2. Other

• Fight parsing

1. Miscellaneous flags
2. Fight ending
3. ‘Non-fights’

[edit] Map window

[edit] Features

• Opening log file
• Opening multiple log files
• Parsing fights
• Combining fights
• Parsing weapon procs

1. What is weapon proc?
2. How does eq companion parse weapon procs?
3. How does eq companion match the damage line with the spell line?

• Parsing spell damage
• Parsing pet’s damage
• Using speech
• Using timers

1. Buff timers
2. Spawn timers

• Using stop watches
• Discipline timers
• Using triggers
• Adding new attack types
• Exporting data
• Items-database
• Factions-database
• Skills-database
• Command chat channel
• On-line parsing vs. off-line parsing
• Using maps

1. Training maps

• Attendance tracking
• Experience tracking

[edit] EQ Companion theory

• How does EQ Companion decide when a fight starts and ends?
• How does EQ Companion calculate dps?
• How does EQ Companion calculate ‘caster dps’?
• How does EQ Companion combine fights?
• How does EQ Companion calculate weapon delay?
• How does EQ Companion calculate single, double, triple, quad, etc. hits?
• How does EQ Companion determine if a fighter is a friend or a foe?
• How does EQ Companion store faction information?
• How does EQ Companion store item information?
• How does EQ Companion calculate your running speed?
• How does EQ Companion calculate experience and AA exp?

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