Installing Areas

Ok.. I run a swr1fuss with the saquid's 2billion vnum snippet installed..

Problem #1
When I vassign myself a range of vnums that goes over 32767 it
instead assigns me a lower vnum and sometimes the high vnum is
a negative number..

Log: Admin: vassign self 80000 89999
Log: Updating area entry for Admin
Done.
Admin has assigned you the vnum range 80000 - 89999.
Log: Updating area entry for Admin

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IMMORTAL DATA: Wizinvis [X] Wizlevel (105)
Bamfin: %s appears in a swirling mist.
Bamfout: %s leaves in a swirling mist.
Vnums: Room (14464 - 24463) Object (14464 - 24463) Mob (14464 - 24463)
Area Loaded [yes]


any ideas as to why this is going on... I can get around it
by using aset.. but i dont like having to get around things..


Problem #2
The area list.. when my area is in prototype form it shows on
the list.. the second I installarea it it dosent.. Any new
area I put on the area list dosent show up.. I can takes the
old ones off and put them back on and they dissappear then
reappear but the new ones never show..

New development as to the area list not displaying my areas...

it seems it just wont display my areas if they are over the number 32767..

Grep through the source and you will find a lot of hard coded values, some are 32000 and some that are 32Whatever the rest is, you will find that this is the cause of the probelm.

Make a define in mud.h for MAX_VNUM and give it a value that you wish to have as your max vnum( i have mine at 60K as i dont see any need for more), then replace all the hard coded values with MAX_VNUM.

Works a treat.

Peace.

You'll need to be sure anything that touches vnums is using an int now instead of a short. Including any display code that might be trying to show it as a short.

Glancing over the most recent FUSS packages I see that the code already treats the vnum ranges in area_data as int so I'm not sure what else was done. It was not necessary to apply Sadiq's patch.

do_score is also using %d which is the tag to display an integer value, so I'm not sure why your results differ. Are you certain you're using the SWR FUSS package?

Im positive im using stock swr1fuss package..

I went through all of my files.. and looked for do_zones
I found 3 places in bd.c I had to change the number because it
was still at the old limit. After changing these numbers and
recompiling I can now get my zones with greater than 33k vnums
to show on the zones list....

the 3 places were do_vnums do_zones do_newzones

However, I still have the problem of the vassign messing up my
requested vnums.. *referr to problem 1 post 1* and I've looked
at the do_vassign function in act_wiz.c and I dont see how the
code could change the numbers..

Well, there could be several problems, your numbers could be mangled by do_score, is it the same numbers in your pfile for example, and in the area? At least there is give you a way to cut down your search.

When looking through do_score, does it give you a dash between the high/low vnums? Might have been something added in at some point to make it read 80k through (-) 89k...