I had a long drive today and thought about a few things while sitting there hour after hour bored out of my mind. There is a bury/dig command out there somewhere which can effectively store items (they reload on a reboot). My thoughts were this: What if the mud was designed to maintain items in the rooms and mobs, vice a clean reboot each time and load everything from scratch? Mud reboots, loads all items and mobs effectively stored on disk. Then initiates a normal zone reset. That way on crashes, the mud continues the way it left off.. I know it probably would write a lot to the drives, each time a mob moves, dies, gets summoned, etc. But how much will this lag the systems made nowdays. PIII 500+ w/a good drive?? Any thoughts ideas on this?? +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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