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Posted by Daos   USA  (42 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Fri 28 Feb 2003 09:57 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Hi,

Actually, adding or removing area files doesn't require a full reboot unless you are running on a windows platform. Hotreboots work just fine for the situation. In a sense, doing a hotreboot is safer considering you might suffer from a hotreboot failure due to an area on the arealist.txt file being unrecognized, whereas if you do a full reboot, your mud won't be able to boot at all. So the hotreboot failure warning works as a safeguard to let you know there is a problem. As far as anyone being equipped with any particular item from an area that is being removed, don't worry. Dawn automatically calls an extract_obj(); function towards the affected pfiles.

- Daos
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Posted by Meerclar   USA  (554 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sun 24 Nov 2002 01:52 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Actually, its a fairly simple matter of removing every area you dont want from the areas.txt file, shutting down the mud, and rebooting on a clean compile. If you do such a thing though, I'd recommend having your staff dump *all* of their items ahead of time. I know DoT is designed to be highly tolerant of situations that would cause instantly fatal pfile corrputions on most other codebases but I'd rather not test it in such a dramatic fashion.
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Posted by Roanna   (7 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sun 24 Nov 2002 01:00 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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What is the best way to go about removing all but the OOC, dawn.are and mudschool.are area files, and keep the game from crashing?? :) great areas but I'm trying for some other areas that are my own and just wanted to cut them down to those three at least. Any suggestions? :)
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