At 02:05 PM 7/14/96 GMT, Casper Lund wrote: >On Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:53:50 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >>On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Casper Lund wrote: >> >>> I have a small problem with player houses on a circle build 11 mud. >>> When money are dropped in a house, the mud is shut down and booted >>> again I get a syslog error saying: >>> >>> Sat Jul 13 23:51:10 :: SYSERR: Illegal value(s) passed to obj_to_room >>> >>> I'm positive it's the money thats the problem as all other items load >>> perfectly.. Money just disappear, never to be seen again. Is this an >>> error in the standard circle or is it something with my codebase (in >>> that case I'm confused since I havn't changed a bit in the house.c >>> code)? >> >>I think the problem is that gold is treated pretty much like corpses. >>It;s created as a temporary object, probably with a vnum of 0. So it >>saves as object 0, but when the house tris to load, that object is >>invalid so you get the syserr and the gold is no longer in the house. >> >>Solution? Tell your tenants not to leave gold around the house :) > >I would like to have this fixed, but haven't seen a fix for it. When >crashsaving the house, instead of saving the portion(s) of gold >instead counting how much gold is in the room and then record it in >the house struct. And when loading the house, then create that amount >of gold again.. Wouldn't that be the easiest way to solve the problem? > You could do it a couple of ways... just totally make gold an object. Make it either when you drop piles in your house (or maby anywhere) it turns them into piles or when you quit the house turns the gold into gold piles, then when you loggon its there(might cause a .0001 lag when rebooting). The latter is probably the easiest fix. >-- >Casper Lund >ncl@mailhost.net >//Incoming mail forwarded via the PObox II remailer > >
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