I have a similar system on my mud where i only wanted to have one unique obj ever on the mud... after a certain amount of time (5 hours) the mud would repop the obj randomly in a room, then if someone had logged off with the obj, the mud would wait till they had finished logging in (right after the motd in nanny) and strip the obj from them. i used a file in the area dir to keep track of the minutes, and when the minutes hit 5 hours, the mud would repop the item. hope this helps,
Dilate > Good point. Well taken. Gonna try that. > > Keith Mervine > "Non Omnis Moriar" > "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" > Service Management Application Developer > International Monetary Fund > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 202-623-7610 > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steve Boleware [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:40 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Loading objects but only if pfiles do not have one. >> >> >> >Well this would only do it on startup or copyover or reboot >> of the mud >> >only. So it wouldn't be that big a hit. >> >I have unique items that only load on boot up. They load once and >> that's it... But it doesn't check to make sure that the item isnt >> already in an inventory. That's the part I need. >> >> >> >> And if the player with the item doesn't login in forever what >> do you do? >> does >> the item leave his inv? does it stay there and inaccessible >> to the rest of >> the mud? separate file info with item and playerholder and >> date would be >> good.. >> if they have not logged in in such-and-such time frame the >> item is "freed" >> to be >> loaded again.. my opinion is to do what was suggested about >> storing the info >> in >> a separate file for use in the mud. that would be relatively >> easy and much >> less >> headache than searching all the pfiles :) >> >> Steve, coding from home :) >> >> >> -- >> ROM mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >> > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
