Re: bug report: nasty inventory destruction bug

[Klaus Elsbernd <>]

From: Peter Mardahl 
>Every so often, a player's inventory will get totally hozed.
>Completely vanish.....  Anyone got a clue why this might
>happen?  It usually happens like this:  the server crashes,
>the player re-enters to find his inventory missing.

>This is really very devastating for a player.

From: Mark Wedel
> That bug is caused because when the server dies, it tries to do an
>emergency save.
> What ever caused the server to die (memory error of some type, typicall),
>also messes up the object links, so when it tries to read the object 
>information to save, it gets another error, and gives up at that point,
>with no inventory on the player.

Perhaps the server could make a backup of the file in case of an 
emergency save. This is easily done.
Then the crossfire admin could recover at least most of
the data.

MfG
Klaus