Hey guys, I've been having this issue with how IDNUMs are set up. My IDNUM code in players.c compares cleanly to the newest revision of TBAMUD. Heres the issue:
Once and a while after some heavy advertising and PR, we have a bunch of people logging in at once. Maybe one of those 20-30 players, will log in with an idnum of over 1 billion. I'll go into the player index file, and check, and sure enough its been written to that insanely high IDNUM. What boggles me, is that sometimes a player will get logged in the index file WITHOUT an idnum. Is it possible that a character in the character creation screen who has logged prior to the player who gets out of character creation first, will re-write the p_table with the character in creation without an IDNUM? Is it possible then that if there is no number beside the character's name, that the text gets translated into a bit value, and then top of p_table becomes a ridiculously higher number? Has anyone ever encountered something like this, or could anyone possibly give me some feedback about how the p_table code could be doing this? I've had this problem come up about every few months, and its a sonofabitch to correct. I've tried doing some simple logging to see what is happening, but I can't get enough useful information to come to a conclusion, or to even fathom how to fix it.
Thanks for listning, and thanks in advance for any useful information posted here after.
