Summoned Pets Turn to Ghosts

[Lalolyen]

More of a spectrum on whats going on.

It seems that when you zone, the pets.cpp or the npc.cpp is not removing the pet from the database ***OR*** after you zone the scripts forget your old pet after pulling him back up, assigning the new pet a new pet id in the database, and thus zoning leaves an unclaimed pet named SumXXXX or SkelXXXX where xxx is the pet type.

I've tried everything I know, no compile errors but also not doing what I want it to.

Ok, so the question I'm asking now, how is it possible to keep the pets id consistant throughout all the zones, not just:

Step 1: Pull pet from database.
Step 2: Assign a new pet id and forget old pet.


But add a step three: Check old pet, /kill or depop him and remove him from the database. *currently we have about 200+ shadow pet ids in our database and we cleaned them all up 3 days ago*.

Also note that this is a problem for those whom are using the persistent zone states to preserve spawn tables when the zone is inactive. Most people without persistent zone states do not see this as bad as when they come in the zone is in a repop state, clearing out these mobs. However for the people wanting to exploit, they can easily box another player in to hold the zone open while they zone back and fourth on the other toon to duplicate the pets and the items on them.

Also KLS you are welcome to login to our server "Divine Reapers" and check this out yourself. See your PM's for instructions for privileged access while we work on this.