> Well, it's a fairly big problem.. any time players are able to > reliably crash > the server, they can duplicate gold, equipment, or pretty much > anything else > saved in a pfile simply by controlling the order of their saves , > exchanges, > and the crashes. > Player A gives "ungodly sword of power" to Player B > Player B saves > The mud crashes before Player A saves automatically. > Player A logs back on with old pfile, still posessing ungodly > sword of power. > Player B logs on with new pfile, still posessing ungodly sword of power.
This could quite simply be avoided in almost all cases (except where saving the pfile causes the crash...) by implementing a signal handling system that autosaves pfiles in the event of a crash. I know that my players were quite unhappy when a crash reverted them back a few minutes. But, hey, if a crash saves everyone, no dupe eq either... (Just my 2c to throw on the dollar...) Ammaross Danan Ardenmore http://www.ardenmore.com
