Changing Zone Names
 

Hello Eqemu,

A couple of questions, how do you hard change the shortname of a zone without making it void for the #zone command? I tried editing it on the DB but, once I did that I could not change to that zone.

My second question is I only edited one line on the eqstr_us file, and once I did, I had errors pop up, and could not use any commands without crashing. Where did I go wrong?

a) make sure to use advanced text editor for editing eqstr_us file - like Notepad++, it contains hidden characters that get deleted if you use regular notepad or something.
Also, only do this while client and server both shutdown.

b) this may not work for zone names at all, but let us know ;)

I'm curious as to why the server has to be shutdown while you are editing this file. If the file is only on the kept on the client side, then how does having the server running while editing this client-side file cause issues? I'm not saying it doesn't affect it. I'm just trying to understand why it affects it.

A precaution. ;) Also it is possible to source this file into DB, I haven't done it, but some may and results could be unfortunate.
Client should be shutdown 100% - causes irreversible errors in any character currently logged in.

Better to have everything shutdown before doing any alterations.

I will let you know!