Important message concerning new database loadouts!

[RangerDown]

A number of users have recenly reported problems with zoning, either being unable to zone or being dumped into qeynos regardless of destination zone.

If you are one of these, I recommend you make sure you have some data in your "variables" database table.

To see if you have some data in there, get to a MySQL command prompt then give this SQL command:

SELECT * FROM variables;

If you get data returned, then you've got a nicely populated variables table. If you get an empty set, then you have no variables in your table.

The variables table holds a handful of run-time options that determine how the server runs. Among many others, it determines whether the worldserver is connecting to a minilogin vs the public login server, how long corpses should stick around before decay, whether players leave corpses upon death, a zoneserver password (to make sure that only your zoneservers connect to your world), and many many more. The server will probably run variable-less, but almost certainly not run the way you want.

If your server is fairly new, you really ought to take a moment to make sure the data in the variables table suits your server. If you use a GUI application like mysqlfront, you can easily see what each variable is for (there's a field in the variables table set aside for a description of what each variable does).