Significant change to zone resets and save zones!

[Nathvaan]

Now announcing what could be the eradication of pesky reimbursement requests, in other words....



For a while now we have been working on a method to not have to do as many reimbursements.  The cause for save rooms not being in sync sometimes was really a fundamental way that diku handles time keeping.  In this case it wasn't using a real clock but it's internal 'cycle' clock.  That has all now changed!

Now save zones (like apartments/any room with [save] in the title) will save MUCH more frequently.  It still wont be instant (because you all have lots of junk in save rooms) but in some cases it will go from 45 mins to just a couple of mins.

Another side effect of this change is zone will likely reset more quickly so creatures out there may seem somewhat more plentiful, so consider yourself warned!

Lastly, there were changes to some commands that modify inventory (like get, put give etc) so it will save your character in the background.  This works with the zone changes to make sure there is a much lower chance of duplicating items!

Added: The only zones that will save in minutes are the save room ones.  The normal zones will reset more quickly then before but measured in hour+ not minutes.

Discussion can take place here!