One of the more annoying things about EverQuest is managing all the little trinkets you pick up. There are quest pieces and spell research components and blacksmithing/armouring materials and loads of other crap, and often it’s hard to keep track of them all. With hundreds of different items and combinations, it’s nearly impossible to even remember if you have certain pieces.
Have I got all the pages to put together to make the Potent Pants of Perniciousness spell? Um, maybe, hold on while I go check all 16 backpacks in the banks of all eight of my characters… And even if I don’t, someone else in the guild might. When combined together we might have enough parts to make a lot of things, but not even know it. It’s hard enough to keep track of your own stuff let alone the rest of the guild.
So, I’ve been working on this. Basically all I have to do is update a text file listing what parts I have, and this script will automatically calculate what I can make from those parts, and also tell me what parts are still missing for other possible combinations. If, say, a beastlord wants some Play Teatime With Animals spell, she can check here and see that I’ve got page 7 for it, Joebob has page 35, and she’ll just have to go and find or buy page 142 to finish it.
Of course that’s being somewhat idealistic. People are lazy after all, so who knows, a week from now I may have completely given up on keeping the lists up-to-date. In fact I’m so lazy tha