refreshing edited items without having to restart the game and the worldserver?

[endra]

I need to know if there is a way to get the edited items in without having to restart the worldserver or the client, or both, or either. It takes about 5 minutes for my worldserver to finish starting up. And another 1 or 2 before you can log into it. I have a dell custom BIOS so I can't overclock a little and get EQ to start faster either. Which also takes about 7 minutes. Also is there any way to add new items? I tried and I get an error saying the max item ID is less than the current item ID. Where is the max item ID key so I can change it. I don't want my gm equips dropping off of low level mobs. Or any. It would be appreciated if I could get an answer to either question. I did search and look through the wiki. I just must suck at searching. Im sorry if this is just polluting the forums.

[gernblan]

Not possible because items are in shared memory and only get loaded once, at startup.

Any changes you make therefore aren't reflected until this happens again, next startup.

NOW.. if there was a way to inject changed records into shared memory as well as saving to the db.... hmmm.....

[John Adams]

Originally Posted by gernblan

NOW.. if there was a way to inject changed records into shared memory as well as saving to the db.... hmmm.....

Hint: You mean, like Guilds?

[gernblan]

Well yeah but I've never seen it done for items before.