Missing weapons and monsters

I have a couple of issues relating to the magic weapons and monster summon abilities from medics.

1) I've just downloaded Druids RPG about 2 or 3 months ago, and now I am having problems with the magical weapons. On the configuration settings in the folder, there are new magical weapons like vorpal, rage and yea, all of that. When I play my RPG game(on instant action), I do not get any of the new magical weapons. I still only have the old RPG magical weapons, like poison, lucky, force and stuff. How can I fix this so that I can get the newer magical weapons from Druids??

2) On one of my characters, I am a medic/monster master. I have maxed out all of the loaded monsters ability, and the monster points ability, but all I can summon is the pupae. I do not get any skaarjs, warlords, titans or queens or anything, just the pupae that is pretty useless. How could I fix this so that I can summon a better monster??

If you can help, that is very great. What I personally think is that I still have the old RPG data in my systems folder, and so that when I downloaded the Druids RPG, it all gets mixed in with the old one. Again, that is what I personally think. Please help

It sounds like you haven't applied the changes from the latest included UT2004RPG.ini (Included in the zip with DruidsRPG) to the one in your system folder.

You need to either apply the changes by hand, or overwrite your UT2004RPG.ini (If you do the latter, you'll loose your current RPG data).

Regarding the first issue, Vorpals and Rages are relatively rare, so you may want to try increasing the 'Chance' of them to verify their non-existence.

I do have all the necessary things in the Druids configuration settings. I see all the new magic weapons and all the monster summons in the configuration settings, which is in my system folders, I just do not get why it hasn't showed up in my game yet.

Here is one line for example:

WeaponModifiers=(WeaponClass=Class'DruidsRPG200.RW_Knockback',Chance=1)

That is in the configuration settings, but I have never gotten knockback or any other new ones before.

MonsterConfigs=(FriendlyName="Mercenary",Monster=Class'satoreMonsterPackv120.SMPMercenary',Adrenaline=40,MonsterPoints=6,Level=5)

That is also in the configuration settings, but I have never gotten anything but the pupae.

Does all of this have to do with the configuration settings? If it does, I do not see why it has not shown up in my game.

do you have it in ut2004rpg.ini and not in a different .ini file ?

Another silly question, but it has to be asked. Have you got

ServerPackages=DruidsRPG200

in your UT2004.ini file?

That shouldn't be necessary for Instant Action...

UHmm... sorry but, what is a .ini... I don't see it anywhere.

.INI is the 3 letter extention for an Initialization file. A text file that hold settings for programs and allows you to change such setting easily within a text editor.

If you do not see it, then either you are looking in the wrong directory, or you have your file extensions hidden. By default, Win XP hides extension of known file type. Go into your folder options (view tab) and unselect that option. To make it global, press the "like current folder" (I have 2000 Pro here at work, so it may be worded differently) after deselecting that option.

OOooh I got the .ini now with all the weapons and monster stuff in it! Now I'm going to play and see if it works!

No luck..... anyways:

** Migrating from base UT2004RPG data:
If you're upgrading from the base UT2004RPG to DruidsRPG, you must compare Mysterial's
ability/weapon/artifact lists to the ones included in DruidsRPG. Wherever a class from the
UT2004RPG is replaced, you must perform the search and replace in your data.

Perform the search and replace in your data?????

^What does that mean?^

If you used UT2004RPG prior to including DruidsRPG, you need to edit your UT2004RPG.ini to include the skills specific to DruidsRPG - IOW, there are skills in DruidsRPG that should replace those used by the stock UT2004RPG. This is all done in the UT2004RPG.ini file.

If you've never played UT2004RPG before, or don't care about any of the data in any existing UT2004RPG.ini, just replace it with the one that comes as part of the package in the DruidsRPG200 download.

All of your questions would appear to indicate that you haven't sufficiently updated your UT2004RPG.ini to account for the new version of DruidsRPG that you are using. You should compare the sample UT2004RPG.ini from the DruidsRPG200 download to your current UT2004RPG.ini.

First step would be to do a search on your current UT2004RPG.ini and look for any "DruidsRPG" instance that says something other than "DruidsRPG200". Any other number aside from "200" is going to cause problems.

Second, you need to basically compare them (the DruidsRPG download UT2004RPG.ini and your working UT2004RPG.ini) line by line; there's a lot of stuff at the beginning (before the character data) that has probably changed and indicates the chances for certain weapons, and the configuration for certain monsters. All that needs to be put into your UT2004RPG.ini for it work properly.

Note that when you play a game, the configuration is being pulled from the UT2004/System/UT2004RPG.ini (this is your "working" configuration, the one you need to make sure is upgraded) - if you're looking at an INI file that's any where else, that's not the live one.

I can't think of anything else I could tell you that would help you. Past this point, I'm guessing you're on your own.

Ok, I have looked through the system folders into the UT2004RPG.ini, and I found them to exactly match the ones from DruidsRPG200's .ini. Everything is in place, everything says DruidsRPG200. whatever in my UT2004RPG.ini file which is in the system file. I am sure that it is all upgraded. Is it because I have the original RPG(by mysterial) "Classes" folder in my system folder as well? In the classes folder, it has abilities, artifacts and the original weapons. Do I need to delete the original weapons or something?

Actually, I think I just found the solution. There are four users on my account, but I have the UT2004 folder on the C drive. When I went onto someone else's account, I saw something different in the system folders than what was in my account. Do all of the computer accounts need to have the DruidsRPG200 stuff in it?