Ok, i got it up and working. Much thx to everyone who helped me through it, both actively and passively through all the posts i sifted through via Search.
Anyway, i have some key questions about an operational server now?
1) i noticed alot of mobs have "interesting" pathing, take a step, drop about 10 feet from the sky, take a step, drop about 10 feet from the sky, etc. where is this pathing controlled so that i could maybe take a look at it?
2) is there any documentation regarding the table schemas. some columns are very obvious, items.Name = pretty obvious, others are a little unapproachable (the various blob/clobs in character_).
3) for performance purposes, what is the general overhead per zone (dont worry, i'm not going to scream my machine crashes, i'm just trying to consider some fine tuning. the server is going to be very low population, but if i can prep about 20-30 zones in memory, i'd like to, in order to make things load faster for them.
TIA
== stanton