start zone

[trevius]

Maybe the zone isn't booting fast enough. But normally that would just kick characters back to char screen and say "zone unavailable". Not sure what else would cause this issue. Does it happen to everyone that starts a new character? And, does it happen if someone is already in the starting zone when you create a new character, so it doesn't have to boot up the zone?

You may want to set your starting zone to run statically. Which means it will be running all of the time. By default, all zones boot dynamically, which means they only load up when someone zones into them.

Oh, and you may want to increase the number of zones that get booted up. I forget which table that is set in and I am not at my server atm to check it.

[Ven-elexver1]

Hi. Yea i have it as static its tutorialB witch uses its new skins for mobs and was a lot of npcs casting spells when you login. so what i did is stoped the pointless casting on them selfs and i removed a guards or 2 that had no quests and walked around that helped some the pc i was logging in with has like 256 mb ram so i think that was the issue also .but yes once you have the char in the zone it logs in fine it was just when i made a new char. i got kicked to the enter password with no error popup so i think its the crappy pc. i can login my GM on my server pc with only 512mb ram and it works fine i need to make a new gm Char and check it that way next. ill let ya know how that goes Ty for the help on this all

[Jest]

How exactly do you modify the DB to have static zones?
I have just been using the command line.

[Ven-elexver1]

i use Navicat and add both types of zones in it under Launcher for Dynamics and under Launcher_zones for static

[Jest]

So under launcher_zones what would I put in there?
Just the line tutorialb ?

[Aramid]

Launcher just has the name of your launcher , default is zone and the amount of dynamic zones you want it to load.

launcher_zones contains three entries per line

launcher --------- zone ------------- port
zone ----------- tutoriala ----------- 7001
zone ----------- tutorialb ----------- 7002
zone ----------- nexus -------------- 7003

This makes the above 3 zones STATIC zones that will boot up and stay up when you start your server, even if no one is in them.

BTW: MySQL GUI Tools 5 are free and will let you work with your DB.

[Ven-elexver1]

yea but i leave my port at 0 it will auto pick a port for the zone .Under Launcher i put my db peq under name and under Dynamics i have the number 20 that loads 20 dynamic zones. Ps use short names under Launcher_zones