Lucy Item Collector Truncating Item NamesFollow

I have some intermittent problems with the lucy EQ item collector; mostly that it does not seem to collect items -- however, I can usually get it working by deleting the db and starting it again.

My concern is that it sometimes truncates item names. One in particular is the 'Stoneoak Tower Shield' [94936]. If you look at the history on this item, the whacked out stats over the past year are probably caused by me when I upload. I see that I am not the only one that truncates names, there is also 'Dresovir Shard, Ro's Fiery Tower' [98985]. Not only are the names truncated, but that stats seem to get scrambled -- until someone else updates the item and corrects the names/stats back to normal. When I scan the list of items, most look fine/normal. Just the 'Stoneoak Tower Shield' usually gets scrambled to 'neok Tower Shield' or 'ok Tower Shield' (along with the stats). Any suggestions to resolve? Running the latest Wincp and item updater.

I seem to recall being told that you're better off reporting this on the Cross Site Troubleshooting & Hardware forum.

That said, I've seen the oddly truncated entries, too, but never on anything that I submit. Tear of Alaris seems to mess up quite frequently.

I personally am noticing odd behavior from Lucy right now. It seems to be ignoring both drops and vendor items (which is usually the bulk of my submissions). Currently, it only updates items in my inventory when I change zones and when I look at stuff in the Marketplace. I figured I would wait a few days and see if Lucy cleared up. But since this is posted here, I thought I would pile on. ;-)

Also, was there a deliberate action taken to remove the Favor benefit entries from Zam? (Do a search on "benefit" to see the ones that have been left behind.) I had boosted my Item DB leaderboard ranking by reporting a number of those. It's fine if they were taken out intentionally, but it seems to have been applied incompletely. Of course, if it's a bug, consider this a bug report. :-)

Edited, Feb 24th 2015 11:01pm by Oxgoad

I've always had problems searching for benefits and last several years getting them updated. Since the item type = !HS bug, it's been difficult.

Yther Ore.

Yther, you are most definitely on the all-time rankings: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/itemdbstats.html.

I don't see anything recent, though. Are you still using Lucy?

Through your Tribute wiki page, it does look like all the tribute benefits still have listings here on Zam. I think the issue is that at some point EverQuest became inconsistent in its nomenclature. For example, Countenance of Ardor II Tier 1 is listed as "Countenance of Ardor II 1 Benefit" but the original Countenance of Ardor Tier 1 is listed as "Benefit: Charisma Cap 02." I was searching on the wrong keywords, hence my confusion. Thanks for reminding me about the Tribute page!

Edited, Feb 25th 2015 8:56pm by Oxgoad

Yeah, I almost never catch new items, but once in a blue moon I get lucky, like with the Bags of Silver Tokens and Bag of Gold Tokens this month. Updated items I catch with more frequency due to my obsessive detail-oriented nature.

And thanks for the compliment about my addition to the 10+ Slot Containers page! I was nearly stultified after adding all those containers, but it was worth it.

Thanks folks. I did see later after posting that there were other more suitable forums. Had a chance to peruse the posts (seems like my particular bug is hard to reproduce) and will carry on. I think it's client side though (be it the collector or something else) since I am seeing the truncated name on the itemcol window.