[main.lua][lua][sql] Proto-Waypoint Content Tags

[Rosienaikanaro]

• Adds new Content Tags to be applied to main.lua
• Includes tagging Proto-Waypoints and associated Geomagnetic Founts
• Updates positions on misplaced PWPs
• Adds interaction file for PWP in Konschat

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What does this pull request do?

• Implement several new content tags in main.lua as discussed previously with Zach/Xaver.
  • Remaining NPC tags will be in follow-up PRs as each gets merged to keep sizes managable for review.
  • VABY = Visions of Abyssea (La Theine, Konschat, Tahrong)
  • SABY = Scars of Abyssea (Misa, Vunkerl, Attohwa)
  • HABY = Heroes of Abyssea (Altepa, Uleg, Grauberg)
  • BALLISTA = Ballista NPCs including Abdhaljs and Brenner, Heralds, Puisants, and License Quest issuers.
  • FELLOWS = Fellows NPCs and Rendezvous points
  • MEEBLES = Meebles Burrows including Dungeon Entrances, Burrow Researchers, and the Meebles out front.
  • LEGION = Legion entrance NPCs, book, and synthesis recipes.
  • PWP = Proto-waypoints, their governing quest NPC in Ru'lude, and the Geomagnetic Founts related to PWPs
  • ESCHUTEONS = Crafter Point vendors in guilds, crafter kit recipes, Mewt and the Focalizer in PJeuno, and the accompanying sphere desynthsis recipes.
• Proto-waypoint Tagging
  • Tags Anastase in Ru'lude
  • Tags the 5 PWPs in Ru'lude, Selbina, Mhaura, Rabao, Norg
  • Tags the 21 Geomagnetic Founts related to PWP warps (the remainder are SoA)
  • Updates PWP / Fount positions if needed based on retail capture

Steps to test these changes

Login with default PWP = 1
!gotoid 17772843
See Anastase + Ru'lude PWP
Logout.
Set PWP = 0 in main.lua
Reset the map server.
Login and see both Anastase + Ru'lude PWP are gone.

[Xaver-DaRed]

Now that I see what you meant, here are my thoughts on the matter.
Content tags in the database should be limites to actual expansions. Or else, this can turn into chaos, fast, if everyone starts adding content tags for everything.

For instance, those proto-waypoints are Adouling content. And thats how they should remain in the database.
Now, that "propto-waypoint enabled" setting, could have its use, if in the proto-waypoint lua script, we just placed it there to disable the system.

TL;DR the database is already chaotic and hard to work with and this is opening pandoras box

[Rosienaikanaro]

Now that I see what you meant, here are my thoughts on the matter. Content tags in the database should be limites to actual expansions. Or else, this can turn into chaos, fast, if everyone starts adding content tags for everything.

For instance, those proto-waypoints are Adouling content. And thats how they should remain in the database. Now, that "propto-waypoint enabled" setting, could have its use, if in the proto-waypoint lua script, we just placed it there to disable the system.

TL;DR the database is already chaotic and hard to work with and this is opening pandoras box

I had categorized the Proto-Waypoints separately for a few reasons. They were released in December 2012, almost four months before Adoulin itself, and they do not appear in expansion-pack zones. Their functionality is largely disconnected from the Adoulin waypoints aside from kinetic units, and even there the cost structure differs. There is also a small questline associated with them, and unlocking them requires beginning that quest rather than simply visiting the waypoint. And lastly PWP Geomagnetic Founts do not count for "The Geomagnetron" quest to gain access to the expansion.

Many of the other content tags I plan to use with the npc_list update already exist in main.lua, but aren’t currently attached to expansion content. This includes, but isn’t limited to, MONSTROSITY, CHOCOBO_RAISING, MMM, MAGIAN_TRIALS, VOIDWATCH, and VOIDWALKER. Rather than introduce entirely new tags without precedent I tried to focus on broader content vectors, systems that represent distinct eras of the game’s development (such as Meebles, Legion, or Eschuteons), or content that is unique or incomplete in its implementation (such as BALLISTA, PWPs, or FELLOWs), or in some cases both (UNITY).

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