Sorry for the late reply. Even when you make zonelines in OpenZone, you still have to enter the source and destination coordinates in the database. However, you can use OpenZone to calculate what the coordinates should be and OpenZone can export the correct coordinates to a text file for you. You can then enter the coordinates into your database from the values in the text file.
OpenZone has a menu item called File...Export...Export zone line info to .ZPT. This will create a text file that will contain the source and destination coordinates from the data you enter in the ground editor. You can then use the data in this exported file to set up your database.
The ignore setting means that the coordinate in the destination zone will have the same coordinate as in the source zone. For example, when you zone from East Commonlands to West Commonlands, the zone is a long line between the two zones, and it's desirable to appear at the same point along the zone line as you entered. The server supports a magic number that signals it to retain a particular X, Y, or Z coordinate. When you check the ignore setting in OpenZone and export the zoneline coordinate settings to a .ZPT file, OpenZone will put in the magic numbers that the server expects for the coordinates where you checked "ignore". In the case of East/West commonlands, for example, the zoneline extends north-south (along the X axis), so it would mean checking ignore for the X coordinate.
The ignore setting is meant for this purpose, where you have a long line linking two zones (you could think of them as parts of a single huge zone). It isn't meant for zone exits where you have the customary snaky tunnel exit.
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