Re: CF: Dup'ing items

[Christian Stieber <stieber@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>]

Anthony Thyssen (anthony@cit.gu.edu.au) wrote:

> Second, when the connection dies the character currently 'saved' on a
> bed of reality should be adjusted to remove any items he `dropped'
> before the connection was lost (with adjustments for items
> moved into/out of sacks but still carried).

Why? Just save him, nothing more needed.

> No other game I know does this, but then few games are as
> `long term' 

Tibia does it the same way as crossfire --- if you kill the client
the character is saved where he is standing. In fact there are no
beds to reality at all --- if you exit the client you are saved at
the current location.

> The enter a new map autosave can get players stuck and require dm help
> to get out.

Doesn't happen very often. Not saving characters frequently is worse,
since it forces players to save and reload frequently.

Of course this can always be added back into the server if it gets
removed, so it's not really a problem.

Christian


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