Man, I wish that last link didn't go to an invalid thread, but I will look for and fix zone mmf files, whatever those are. When this problem came up on me last night after a server backup, I noticed that I can create a new character and they load up just fine, but I still can't log in to my old characters. Furthermore, what started all this is enabling the merc code, going through all the things, wiped out my merchants server-wide. What I think is whoever got the merc merchant code done made it to where it changed some rule or line of code to think that every merchant everywhere either needed to have the same rules as mercenary merchants, or.. well, no, that seems to be the case. Anyway, long story short I had to reinstall my entire server because HeidiSQL is clunky and doesn't know to restore from backup, nor seems to know to let go of a database that has been shift-deleted. So after all the table reloads, I have this exact problem from... 2016. I have no problem gravedigging, as you can no doubt tell, a habit I've gotten into from dead links, links that go nowhere, and posters who tell us nevermind, they fixed it and never bother to say how. I'm a necromancer by necessity, as back in the old days when Google was just a search engine and not a multi-trillion dollar evil empire focused on controlling the world, I could find all my relevant information from current year.
Interestingly enough, I don't know if this contributes at all, but it seems there's leftover merc code from the deleted server still floating around in my new one. I'm thinking I need to perform a complete fresh install, maybe even on a sub-login account, and try from scratch. Sorry for gravedigging, but dead links are what they are. I'll try to figure out what a zone mmf is, but hopefully someone, anyone can tell me what and where they are so I can fix them.
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