Not able to zone into certain zones

[Traul]

I'm running into a curious problem where my client will just freeze trying to get into certain zones on my server. So far the affected zones that I have found are gfaydark and fearplane. I can bootup the zone just fine, and it will say 0 clients in the zone. When I attempt to zone into it, it still says 0 clients (nothing else changes in the zone.exe window) and the client then freezes.

Here's what world.exe looks like after I zone into ecommons (which works), and then trying to zone into fearplane.



Any idea what could be going wrong here?

[lerxst2112]

Can you zone into those zones on a known good server like peq? That would help narrow down whether you have a server problem or a client problem.

[Traul]

I just gave it a shot and was successful at zoning into gfaydark on a different server.

[Traul]

Is there any other information I can give? I'm absolutely stumped here and endless searches turn up nothing. :(

[Traul]

Progress! I've been messing around... I completely cleared the npc_types table and was successfully able to zone into plane of fear, so it has something to do with the NPCs.

Also I've identified Nektulos as another zone having similar issues.

[Traul]

Fixed it! It all had to do with loot tables and was a really silly bug on my part. Turns out in each of these zones I had some lootdrops that had a mindrop of 1, but the overall chance of each item in the lootdrop was 0. I guess this would send it into some kind of infinite loop, causing the zone to not boot up properly. I would have thought something like that would show up on zone.exe

I had recently done a batch sql that made all lootdrops that have mindrop of 0 change to mindrop of 1 (I like to use lootdrop probability as opposed to lootdrop entry probabilities) and I had forgotten about these old loot tables that I had kept just incase I wanted to reactivate them.