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PyroK9
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Joined: 08 Nov 2006
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 Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:30 am
zMUD overload
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I play Achaea on zMUD, and have quite an intricate combat system. But mid-fight, zMUD will just crash and quit and just disappear, restoring itself to settings that were there just as I logged on. Is it possible to overload zMUD with too much information? I haven't heard of anyone else in Achaea having this problem.
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Fang Xianfu
GURU
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5155
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:43 am
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What do you mean by "crash and quit and just disappear"? Do you get any error message, or does zMUD just vanish?
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PyroK9
Newbie
Joined: 08 Nov 2006
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:05 pm
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Just vanishes.
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Seb
Wizard
Joined: 14 Aug 2004
Posts: 1269
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:54 pm
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What version of zMUD?
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PyroK9
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Joined: 08 Nov 2006
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:28 am
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Tech
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Joined: 18 Oct 2000
Posts: 2733
Location: Atlanta, USA
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:08 am
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zMUD was sometimes known to have corrupt settings that often exhibited unexpected behavior. If this is the case for you then that might explain the hard crash. Unfortunately unless you are able to narrow it down we may not be much help.
You said you typically notice this in combat, so I would suspect that errant setting has to with your combat or healing scripts. Turning some of them off to "see what happens" is probably not reasonable for you. You can try going through each of the settings individually when you are offline to see if anything pops up. You can also try checking for your use of #WAIT (if any) as it can produce some unexpected results.
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Seb
Wizard
Joined: 14 Aug 2004
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:00 pm
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Do you have more one monitor? Maybe the crash error is popping up on the other monitor? But that doesn't solve the crash... I'd follow Tech's advice and try disabling some settings, or testing each one offline (or in a safe place) via the #SHOW command.
One other option - you could export your settings to a ZSC file, check that it doesn't look corrupted, create a new session, and reimport your settings. You will have lost some information, I expect, but if it cures your crash...
Oh, and you could also try checking all the Class Scripts within zMUD. See if there are any errors or garbage. |
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Vijilante
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Joined: 18 Nov 2001
Posts: 5182
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:27 am
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The only time I have ever actually seen this happen is with an undetected script loop. By script loop I mean something like this
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A simple recursive loop like this zMud will detect and stop after a short period. Much more complex loops though can get by zMud detections and can cause a hard crash. With extremely complex script this can be very difficult to track down. It looks like everyone has already given you the best advice about how to find it, hopefully I am right about what you are looking for.
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