[CF-Devel] Map reset bug?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:13:32AM -0700, Mark Wedel wrote:
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      "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
     
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      > The player starts in a map called /lankirk/start-house which has a
     
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      > savebed. The reset time is set to 3600. Now, the odd thing is, whenever i
     
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      > save the play-testing character on the savebed, the map DOES NOT RESET.
     
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      > Even after 12 hours. In fact, it didn't even reset after 24 hours.
     
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      > If I *quit* the play-testing character (i.e. delete instead of save), then
     
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      > the map resets after a reasonable amount of time. Any clues as to what I
     
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      > might be doing wrong, or is this a server bug?
     
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       Are there other players on the server, or are you the last one?
     
     
This is my local server, so it's the last one.

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       If so, the server basically goes to sleep waiting for new connections.  During
     
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      that time it is asleep, maps do not reset.  When someone rejoins, most all the
     
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      maps will reset if the time has been long enough, but maps the player can visit
     
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      quickly enough will not reset (this is because the server does not check for
     
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      potential map resets every tick, but instead every 500 ticks or something).
     
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       If you keep your client connected waiting for the 'play again prompt', it may
     
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      also see it as a player being on that map.  I'd have to double check this.
     
     
Interestingly, the map *does* reset if I leave my client at the play-again
prompt. It doesn't if I completely disconnect.

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       In reality, these are all server bugs.  If its just a problem with youu being
     
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      the only player, that sort of goes away if youu expect these to be used on
     
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      public servers.  But I'll also see about adding code to reset maps periodically
     
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      even when sleeping.  Now days, when the server is sleeping, it still does in
     
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      fact do other activitity now and again (at one time, this was not the case - it
     
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      just waited in select), so while it is doing that other activitity, it can also
     
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      clear out the old maps.
     
     
It's not *that* hard to do, is it?


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