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? :)
Removing Area Files
Posted by Roanna on Sun 24 Nov 2002 01:00 AM — 3 posts, 20,278 views.
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.
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
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