Zone persistence

[N0ctrnl]

Ok, I haven't been able to find anything like what I'm seeing, so I'm going to ask here. Forgive me if I missed it with the search.

I've got my zones set to save state. With them like this, a lot of times the zones only have partial spawns in them. I have to #repop them to get them to have a full spawn. For example, Plane of Knowledge only had 59 NPCs in it until I repopped it. After, it was fine (305).

So... Is there something I'm missing? It seems to work better when I clear out the zone_state_dump table, but is that necessary every time a server is rebooted? It'd really suck if so, but I can deal with that as long as I know.

Thanks!