Automatic zone.exe loader?

circuitdragon · #1 10-17-2007, 02:59 AM

After 4-5 years of just lurking, and who knows how many server setups I've done...I have this question and thought. Instead of running a batch file to always load X number of zone windows, is there a way to have anything set to auto load more zones, if none are available? I'll pause here to apologize if this has been asked, but nothing to this regard appeared on my searches. The example I will use is say you want 5 static "city" zones, and 5 dynamic. No realistic value here, but 10 people on, each in a different zone, 5 being the cities. The 11th person tries to login, and wants a different zone request. Obviously they will get the "zone unavailable" message, but is there something that will auto load another dynamic zone? If not, I will just set maybe 30 zones, and just forget all this...lol But this idea seems to "call to me" and I'd love to have it work. Hopefully, my first post ever, makes some sense?

Theeper · #2 10-17-2007, 11:57 AM

Enable more dynamic zones. That's the exact purpose of having them. They are placeholders for zone content to be loaded into memory.

AFAIK, the reason it's setup this way is too keep the emu server from needing memory that isn't available. Imagine if 250 people tried to login to seperate zones at one time and the emu was allowed to load that many instances of zone.exe, it would chew your memory up.

circuitdragon · #3 10-17-2007, 04:39 PM

I guess I can see that. Next thing on my mind will be something to organize all the zone windows. Wonder if its possible to write a little something with VB to place them all nice and neat in one window....different topic though. I'll just go with the flow on the zones. Chances are, I won't see any heavy loads of players on my server. Thanks though, I was just curious if anyone had a setup for something like this idea.

Theeper · #4 10-17-2007, 04:58 PM

If you use the launcher, you should only have 2 windows open, no matter how many zones you boot. 3 if you're using Minilogin.

circuitdragon · #5 10-18-2007, 03:41 AM

2 windows? That may work for 1 or 2 people. 1 zone to be current, 1 to be "waiting" to transfer to. Bad ratio maybe, but for a figure of 5 people I would say 7-10 zones needed. Only reason I do this is to never see the "Zone unavailable" messages. Why worry, when all thats needed is more zones loaded? I'll not say this is the correct thing to do, just how I do things. My server is public, so its not just me that can get on it.

Sakrateri · #6 10-18-2007, 04:23 AM

No no no, what he is saying is if you use the launcher that you can have as many zones as you want to be ready but would only see one window for all of them , just go into launcher in your database and type in how many you want running and hit launcher and thats how many will be available.....Se?

Theeper · #7 10-18-2007, 04:23 AM

My point is you don't have to have one window open for each zone you boot, no matter how many people are playing. If you use the launcher, it will not open a command window for each zone. It only opens one. There is no need to have a seperate window for each zone.

circuitdragon · #8 10-18-2007, 06:27 AM

Ahhh, I'll try that out. I'm still "old school" I guess, using a batch file. Thanks guys.